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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...
Is it October in an odd-numbered year? Then it's clearly time for another Skeletonwitch record, right? Ignoring 2004's At One With the Shadows – an easy...
Hypothetically let's say we've taken a record of Ihsahn's overall style from his past four solo records. Let's say this tome contains a fairly...
Motörhead join AC/DC as the two go-to bands that folks mention when they're talking about a band that has essentially churned out the same album over and...
For as good as 2011's Scurrlious is, it had MASSIVE footsteps to follow after the band's monumental Fortress. It didn't quite live up to it sadly, and...
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...
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...
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...
I somehow missed the 2011 debut by Oslo's Beaten to Death – featuring members of Tsjuder, Insense and She Said Destroy – but I can safely rule out Dødsfest! as a sophomore...
Not often does an unknown band blow you away. Boston’s Soul Remnants did just that with their forthcoming album, Black and Blood. And the...
Just in time for a supporting slot with fellow Austinites The Sword – having already toured with that band and Clutch – Texas power trio American Sharks unleash a...
If this were indie rock it would be Altaars or Alltars or ALTRS, but seeing as how we're dealing with metal here it's still Altars, thank you 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...
When they landed on this planet in the 80's, no one knew what history would tell about the interstellar group of misfits know to...
Can't think anything other than "Holy shit, I've seeing Shining Thursday with Cormorant." What should I wear to a "blackjazz" show? Corpse paint? Fancy...
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...
When I think of Satyricon, the first thing that comes to mind is a funny conversation I had with a rather enthusiastic and boisterous...
Josh Graham inaugurated A Storm of Light in 2007, shortly before exiting the band he helped found, Red Sparowes. Having also spent the entirety of that decade...
