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It's been three years since Castevet unveiled their debut album, Mounds of Ash. The record received widespread critical acclaim and helped solidify the legitimacy...
It’s hard not to sound like a pretentious, musical snobby doucheface while reviewing a band like Pelican, but I’ll do my best. Pelican is,...
How long can you keep a nostalgia act running and keep it fresh and exciting? Pretty long apparently if you're Warbringer. And even longer...
I went out and got my hipster on Sunday at the Treasure Island Festival. I have not shame in this. However, in the process...
There's a lot of hype surrounding Atlantean Kodex's sophomore album, The White Goddess, right now. That's not news in and of itself; in any...
The term "progressive" gets thrown around in heavy metal. There are many progressive bands out there that find a sound that breaks a little...
Instrumental stoner rock is somewhat of an underutilized angle, Earthless and older Karma to Burn being the only exceptions to spring immediately to mind. And since Karma to Burn began...
Grand Blood, the new album from Boston metal band Doomriders, represents many of the aspects of contemporary metallic hardcore. At once they manage to...
When a band gathers an audience from their inception, expectations get skewed in an unfair way. A hit song can be a blessing in...
You know what the metal world needs more of? Musicals. I'm not saying that ironically either. Sure, we have plenty of prog bands putting out...
In the time before time, there was a major record label that was considered the endgame for any metal band. Long before budget cutbacks,...
Touché Amoré is a progressive/melodic hardcore band hailing out of Los Angeles, best known for their excellent song structure and heartfelt lyricism that is...
It's fitting that the resurgence of both Death Angel and Testament coincided with dual supporting slots on the Anthrax comeback tour two years ago: both are Bay Area thrash acts...
Before I started listening to this album, the first thing I thought of was: "funny they gave it the name Sister, there's an old...
I really enjoyed Soulfly's 2012 album, Enslaved; so I wasn't sure whether to be really excited or a little worried that Max and Co....
Elder statesmen of the Chicago metal scene, and one of the more seasoned lynchpins in American death metal period, Broken Hope emerged fully formed in 1991...
To summarize quickly for those who lack the patience to read this entire review: this is a pure funeral doom record, and a very...
Since 2003, Alexander von Meilenwald, the former drummer for Nagelfar, has been releasing sprawling black metal epics under the name The Ruins of Beverast. His music starts with...
Conflicting ideologies seem to spurn the best possible music. The black metal and death metal scenes fought against each other back in the early...
On Ginnungagap, Seidr's follow up to their 2011 debut album For Winter Fire, the Louisville, Kentucky band meld the folky doom of earlier material...
By now you've certainly heard your fair share about Metallica's 3D movie, Through The Never. The one lingering question seems to be "is it...
Heroism looms large in the metal pantheon. Yet as much fussing over the concept goes on, few of the genre's practitioners possess the conviction...
I was hoping—really hoping—that the new Inquisition album would have an even longer title than the last one did. No such luck. Also I...
