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You may have heard recently through the grapevine that a band going by the name “Lesbian” exists. Furthermore, it has no female members, which...
This year, I resolve to listen to more death metal. And what better way to start this new year with the new act, Oblivion....
The PR cycle for Psalms of the Dead comes front loaded with some unfortunate news: after five years of fronting Candlemass, singer Robert Lowe...
If you’re like me, you might forever associate John 5 with Marilyn Manson, and depending on who you are, that might be a bad...
On a cold February evening this year, I went to see Absu and Immortal play at the Gramercy Theater in NYC. Although I mainly...
Rwake have never been the type of band to look at a wheel and decide it needs reinventing. This is not a knock… music...
Pitchfork Media tends to be frowned upon by much of the metal community as the spawning ground of many of the hipster trends that...
Welcome back, Tomas Haake. It was quite impressive how natural (natural for extreme metal, anyway) the programmed drums sounded on 2005's Catch Thirtythree, but...
There are certain record labels which I trust on dealing with bands that have a lot of “artistic credibility”. The End Records has built...
Dreary as hell, but in a good way – Sweden's Mortuus drags the listener on a gentle descent into the abyss. After an initial...
What an album cover! An electric eye sizes up a scantily clad woman, whose hair looks freshly shampooed, and who casts two faint neon...
N.I.L. ("Nihilism is Liberation") is N. Imperial – whose long resume includes Krieg, Nachtmystium, Twilight, Weltmacht, and Devotee – and J. Marcheski, who moonlights with...
Throne of Katarsis isn't for the impatient. On the Norwegian band's debut full-length, An Eternal Dark Horizon, it unfolds five songs over 55 minutes. ...
In some ways, this album (and this review) is a triumph against the odds. First, Equal Vision sent this CD in a plain, unpromising...
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...
Recording an album with a band is hard enough; recording one by yourself is exponentially harder. Thus, it's noteworthy when a one-man project like...
