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For the past 16 years, Psycroptic has been enthusiastically creating technical death metal from the small island of Tasmania, just off the coast of...
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For the past 16 years, Psycroptic has been enthusiastically creating technical death metal from the small island of Tasmania, just off the coast of...
Leviathan’s excellent new album sounds like...death metal! From the crushing low-end riffs, to the guttural vocals and pinch harmonics, this reminds me less of...
Enslaved were one of the earlier Scandinavian bands to begin rigorously unraveling the increasingly staid black metal template. Though they've been at this "controlled...
Motor Sister is at their absolute best when they are letting it all hang out in a clinic of no fucks given, good times...
With such a massive and varied back catalog, it's hard to anticipate what new Dhampyr music is going to sound like. It could be...
Taken By the Sun hasn't been the most active band when it comes to productivity. After a five song demo EP in 2013 the...
Like the deep forest fog for which they are named, Romania's darkest metal export has slithered its way through the underground and into the...
Pelican's discography has gotten increasingly "single"-heavy over the years, so it's not surprising that they've opted to rebound from last year's excellent live album, Artika,...
France’s Death Engine doesn’t sound like Neurosis per se, but there’s a definite artistic aesthetic informed, influenced and inspired by the Oakland post-metal legends....
Torche lost of a bit of goodwill with me on the last album, Harmonicraft. They'd always had a knack for melody, sure, but their trajectory...
If you’re going to listen to Oceans Ate Alaska for the first time, the things you’ll notice right away (apart from common metalcore tropes)...
There are a lot of purist black metal bands that hide behind the shield of "keeping it trve" to defend rote, uninspired songwriting, but...
Erazor is known as a blackened thrash metal band from Germany. Though this may conjure up thoughts of bands like Aura Noir and Destroyer...
There's no taking it easy or leaving time to breathe for a band like Primitive Man. The band has laid down some of the...
When listening to Eye of Providence, it feels is as if an entire new band is here. It's quite a drastic step in a...
Though these reavers hail from the salty plains of Utah, they worship at the alter of Grand Magus and Manilla Road instead of the...
A blackened death metal feel is the overall sense this album portrays. The creative foundation that is present in almost every track turns out...
Though it’s commonly summed up as a homogenized slab of Gothenburg riffs and 90’s hardcore breakdowns, the metalcore explosion of the mid-aughts was actually...
To their credit, Blind Guardian have been content to just lay back in the cut and perfect their craft one album at a time;...
Last year, The Body and Thou unleashed a compilation album. Not the general compilation where they both pay it forward and split songs as...
Night Demon wears their vintage hearts on their denim jacket sleeves; for them the New Wave of British Metal is where heavy music started,...
Their previous two albums, Under a Frozen Sun and Fallen Angel’s Dominion show a band with a well-honed focus on what they love. The...
"Watchers of Rule showcases a band firing on all cylinders. There is an urgency, a purpose and a drive I haven't felt in a...
