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Straightedge metallic hardcore punk brimming with breakdowns – who needs more of this stuff? Turns out that a well-done X-fest is surprisingly refreshing in...
Dokken's 1979 demo, Back in the Streets (available for free download here), is worth hearing, as it's quite unlike what the name Dokken typically...
What Gojira was last year, Hacride is this year – a French metallic missile that should detonate devastatingly across the Atlantic. Put away those...
On its debut full-length, San Diego's Warface serves up no-frills, old-school death metal. Suffocation comes to mind in the death growls, blastbeats alternating with...
In some ways, this album (and this review) is a triumph against the odds. First, Equal Vision sent this CD in a plain, unpromising...
When you review the band responsible for your employer's theme song, your hands are a little tied. The opening riffs of "Praise the Lord...
It's interesting how hardcore punk is reaching outside itself for inspiration these days. More specifically, it's reaching back in time. There's the whole punk...
At the moment, the main selling point for Laethora is that its lineup includes guitarist Niklas Sundin of Dark Tranquillity. A skilled graphic designer...
Metal bands often talk of war, but few actually sound like it. Amon Amarth and Bolt Thrower have built careers around war themes, yet...
Impious' Holy Murder Masquerade has amazingly ingenious liner notes. They take the form of a comic book, with the lyrics as speech and thought...
Well, this rips. Plain and simple. It isn't the most original album around, but Year of Desolation's debut is a ferocious blend of death...
Blood Libels is the third album from French black metallers Antaeus, and it's a hell of a release. Those who enjoyed Cut Your Flesh...
Allow me to state my taxonomic understanding of the no-woman's land between metal and hardcore. When a hardcore band exhibits metallic tendencies, they're, natch,...
For some reason, the YouTube test of guitar proficiency these days is how well one can play Necrophagist songs. Well, The Faceless would wipe...
When your drummer leaves your band, what do you do? When you're Savannah, GA band Kylesa, and you drink as much as they do,...
When it comes to '80s American thrash, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York are the first places that come to mind. However,...
When Manowar do things, they do them big. Their album covers are filled with big men with big muscles holding big swords. Their tunes...
Okay, I know this is a little late, but whateva you are getting it now. On October 29th I saw one of the most...
I was asked to do a review for The Absence "From Your Grave" and I must say, I was very excited. I picked...
Some of the Avant Garde shit coming out these days, it's hard to tell weather or not weather the group is full of musicians...
The latest from this Australian-based outfit has a huge effort to follow up after 2003's "Sceptor of The Ancients". Psycroptic play a unique...
Knives of Ice is easily the best death metal cd I've heard all year. I wasn't expecting much less whenI heard the mighty...
