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Four records into a reasonably successful career, Wretched are pretty much a known quantity at this point: technically rendered death metal that has gradually...
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Four records into a reasonably successful career, Wretched are pretty much a known quantity at this point: technically rendered death metal that has gradually...
I've always liked to think of myself as never having been an apologist for any band, but Justin K. Broadrick was about the closest...
Where did the good times go? High Spirits may be the answer to the question and the start of a new wave of American...
In 2011, Decibel handing Tombs the distinction of "album of the year." With Savage Gold, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more eagerly anticipated...
This split 10" from Halo of Flies Records is comprised of only two songs, but both tracks are eight minutes long. If you're familiar...
Eyehategod have never really went away so much as just splintered back into their plethora of side projects before any meaningful amount of songwriting...
Now, almost as if in response to The Satanist, Spain's Teitanblood has loosed Death; a nigh impenetrable mass of atavistic black/death chaos. Death is...
n 2006, Misery Index caught my attention for the first time with their Relapse debut Discordia, but quickly faded into the memory for one...
We had it coming. We've had it coming for years. The question was simply a matter of when deliverance would grace us. Finally, it's...
Discussing whether or not music rings trve, kvlt or hipster seems to dominate conversations within the circles of metal dorkdom, and absolutely no one...
From the mind of Roman Saenko comes a folk compilation of international recording artists whose goal is to bring a piece of heritage from...
Starting off as a fairly prolific crust/sludge quartet from the Pacific Northwest, Trap Them began getting a little leaner in their output as they gained popularity,...
Canada has a knack for producing strange metal. The country has birthed avant-garde proggers uneXpect, thrash weirdos Voivod and the mad genius Devin Townsend. Most would connect Norway...
The monsters are on their way. They're approaching now. You'll soon know them by the way they scream. You'll know them by way of...
Among their peers in the vast New York hardcore scene, Sworn Enemy always had that extra bit of heaviness to their sound. When you...
Pagan metal is one of those terms that has become increasingly polarizing to adherents of heavy metal culture. A once revered corner of the...
I think the metal world has a negative stereotype when it comes to youth in metal. We usually see kids who own a Metallica...
One of the most disappointing omissions from this year's Summer Slaughter lineup is Vancouver's oft-slept on Archspire. Having released a profile-raising sophomore album last month...
There are those who say that lumping bands into genres and sub-categories is a pointless exercise. Nevertheless, us journalists, in our efforts to proclaim...
Perhaps it's fitting then that Agalloch's triumphant return finds the band blending the best of each album into one cohesive piece of artistic expression.
Prong was difficult to consider a powerhouse of metal although their two decade history might prove otherwise.
American audiences may not be too familiar with criminally under-appreciated German speed institution Holy Moses, a band unique for two main reasons: having formed...
Death metal, as a genre, hasn’t made too many leaps since its birth into the field. But like the old saying goes, “if it...
