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Severe Torture has come a long way since "Decomposing Bitch." That, um, composition graced its first record, 2000's Feasting on Blood. Essentially Cannibal Corpse...
Yet more Latin-loving French black metal – if I'd known I was going to be a metal writer, I would have studied Latin in...
Chiodos isn't the only band these days bridging Queen and Hot Topic. Between the Buried and Me, The Fall of Troy, and Circa Survive...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
Only in the Internet age could bands so far away sound so alike. Compare All Shall Perish's (Bay Area) first album with Alienacja (Poland),...
It's odd that George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, vocalist for the world's biggest death metal band, Cannibal Corpse, and pioneer of the "helicopter hair" headbanging technique,...
Seemingly every metal label now has an entry in the retro thrash sweepstakes; Relapse's is Dekapitator. But to the Bay Area band's credit, it...
There are certain record labels which I trust on dealing with bands that have a lot of “artistic credibility”. The End Records has built...
For those new kids out there, “Wages Of Sin” was not ARCH ENEMY's first album! For you melodic metalcore kids still high on LAMB...
What I love about PREMONITIONS OF WAY and EVERY TIME I DIE is the fact that they sound like they locked themselves in a...
I have a special place in my heart for thrash, because that’s where it all started for me. The 90’s however were not kind...
I’m a total sucker for vinyls. The 7″ is one of the most underground releases you can make, and having one makes me feel...
It’s funny what goes on at Wikipedia. Sometimes I don’t think that the article neutrality header comes up often enough. I tried looking up...
I’ve always found it a little sad that DARK FUNERAL have put all their energy into the “all fast songs all the time” routine....
If we travel back far enough in time in the history of DARK FUNERAL, you can see that the lineup revolves around founding guitarist...
Has anyone noticed the large amount of so-called “experimental” or “art” style bands in the world of metalcore that draw heavily from their peers?...
Good old stoner rock. And yeah, it’s stoner rock, because I wouldn’t say it’s heavy enough to be stoner metal. The fuzz just isn’t...
If there’s one thing I hate about my own reviews, it’s that editing one’s own work is incredibly hard. Just when I thought I...
I popped this album in my CD player and immediately began looking through the insert. I had a record label rep tell me one...
Ah yes, good old doom/death. It’s funny how all of the progenitors have grown from growling over BLACK SABBATH riffs, to a post doom/death...
I’m sure my attempts at humor in my recent raw black metal reviews has probably resulted in Obscure Abhorrence Records, and perhaps some of...
I’ve been into AS I LAY DYING since “Frail Words Collapse” in 2003. I think that album is a landmark in time. Not only...
Perhaps you’ve heard the quote “You’re nobody until somebody hates you”. If there’s something I’ve noticed with underground music and people who only care...
