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It's a long journey from paying tribute to being tribute-worthy oneself. It's a common pitfall among many artists: hamstringing themselves with their own sense...
With bass player Daniel Ekeroth having literally written the book (0n) Swedish Death Metal, you'd expect Usurpress to have their shit together, and that...
Epic. Masterpiece. Mind-blowing. Superlative, superlative, superlative. It's hard to hide my excitement here; Portal Of I, down to its final note, is the perfect...
Beyond Black Sabbath, traditional doom puts me to sleep. My interest in the bleak arts is only piqued by the extraordinary; Pallbearer are precisely...
I’ve seen Carnifex live a couple of times, first at Summer Slaughter in 2010, and again this past spring at New England Metal and...
When you review an album from one of your favorite bands, you're torn in a couple directions. In one sense, your passion for them...
Does anyone still care about Anaal Nathrakh? After making waves early on with their love-it-or-hate-it blend of black and death with industrial overtones, the...
Path of Totality isn't the album I was expecting from Tombs; this is a good thing. The band enlisted John Congleton (Baroness, Explosions in...
Discounting the formative, retrospectively uncharacteristic Retribution – well received at the time but juvenilia in hindsight – Obscura launched themselves to the forefront of...
Burzum's long awaited comeback after 11 years of silence was a quiet one: 2010's Belus was generally well received but in many ways flew...
by James Zalucky Faded am I, behind a wall of consciousness Still feeling a different world Surrounding me Chilling voices fill my head- I...
By Atanamar Sunyata Many metal albums create a feeling of forward movement; lumbering, running, sprinting. Others hold you stationary while buffeting you with gusts...
by James Zalucky When it comes to creativity, few bands can match the power and brilliance of AGALLOCH. Over the course of their career...
By: Graham "Gruhamed" Hartmann Before Katherine Katz made her debut as the official third vocalist of Agoraphobic Nosebleed on their 2009 release Agorapocalypse, the...
By Ben Apatoff Like any remotely interesting hardcore band these days, CANCER BATS don't play it straight-up. The Canadian punks have a strong southern...
By Ben Apatoff Everything that you could guess about BISON B.C.'s music from their name is probably true. It can shift a plodding stomp...
No band has done more for American metal under the Bush years than LAMB OF GOD. For eight years, Virginia's finest upped the ante...
Two things jump out about Black Tide. The first is their youth: they're all under 20, and singer/guitarist Gabriel Garcia is supposedly only 15. ...
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...
Before I even start this off, I know what many of you will say as soon as you see the band name, “That’s not...
When you ask today's metal heads who the titans of metal are, you're likely to hear names like LAMB OF GOD, DIMMU BORGIR, ARCH...
In some ways, this album (and this review) is a triumph against the odds. First, Equal Vision sent this CD in a plain, unpromising...
Three words: fucking mean metalcore. Dead to Fall has already established themselves pretty well within the metalcore scene with “Everything I touch...
