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This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that...
With an artfully arranged title – Sunbather – splayed across a sunkissed gradient ranging from salmon to pink lemonade, you'd be forgiven for Deafheaven had jumped labels to...
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions....
Six years. I still can’t believe it has been six years since Era Vulgaris was released. In some ways, this wait didn’t seem that...
Rudiments of Mutilation. Do you even need anything beyond that? It's a title that is immediately identifiable and stands out. It's one of those...
With Black Gives Way to Blue, Alice in Chains proved all the faux-elitists and skeptics completely wrong. They managed to avoid the anticlimactic self-parody...
Seth's The Howling Spirit boils down to well-written black metal without succumbing to the reverb-laden hallmarks and constant minor-chord bombardments that black metal so...
Be cautious when buying the new album from the Shining: if you are expecting a black metal opus, there may be confusion with their Swedish...
Dark Tranquillity's Construct is one of those records where the singles are a little bit a of a misrepresentation of the record. "The Science...
At one point Killing Joke were one of the most bulletproof post-punk bands around. Releasing their first single in 1978, they were right there with Wire and Gang of...
You may have heard recently through the grapevine that a band going by the name “Lesbian” exists. Furthermore, it has no female members, which...
In 2013, melodic death metal is as musically relevant as barbershop. The genre peaked when At The Gates dropped Slaughter of the Soul, but...
As kids that were born at the peak of grunge graduate high school and acquire disposable income, the 80's nostalgia that American society has...
Heaven Shall Burn is a name that is pretty renowned across the Atlantic. They definitely have a good name for themselves in German metalcore;...
A couple years ago, I went to go see the first (and so far only) MetalSuck Fest in NYC, and among the many highlights...
When you first hear a band name like Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, you might either get the reference, or groan at yet another obtuse...
Greetings once again all you metal nerds. This was a rough week. Rough in a sense that there was almost too much good stuff...
Everyone has that band that got them into music, or into a genre. And no matter how mediocre or revolutionary that band is, you'll...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
It's somewhat disarming that, in an era where bands are forced to deliberately misspell (Pyyramids, CHVRCHES) or omit vowels (VYGR, MSTRKRFT) from their names in order...
There are thousands upon thousands of forgotten bands buried and rotting in the coffin of time. And while the heap is often justifiable hill...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
