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Austrian three-piece Dornenreich have existed since 1996, releasing seven studio albums while dazzling us with their neo-folk infused take on black metal and chamber...
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"Defeated Sanity is one of the best in the game of absolute top-tier extremity."
Austrian three-piece Dornenreich have existed since 1996, releasing seven studio albums while dazzling us with their neo-folk infused take on black metal and chamber...
There are few bands as divisive, as utterly polarizing, as Cradle of Filth. Bashing them was second nature from the mid to late nineties...
Nux Vomica, Portland-by-way-of-Baltimore's ever evolving crust outfit, is back with their third full length album. The self-titled effort is their first release on Relapse...
Symphonic metal is one of the most artistic subgenres of metal. I feel like there’s a certain way it needs to be done in...
The theocracy in Saudi Arabia recently gave its penal code a revamping, ostensibly to bring the kingdom’s policies in line with those of Western...
Last year we celebrated the Collaboration/Supergroup and I was well aware that a few rather interesting ones were on their way. Still on the way,...
Aborted. Only a death metal group could get away with a band name like that, especially for almost twenty years. Death metal has made...
Heavy metal by its very nature is transgressive. The genre embraces the darkness of human nature in a way that no other musical style...
So far, 2014 has been a banner year for great power metal releases. Sonata Arctica and Iron Savior recovered from multi-album slumps to release some of...
Everywhere you look, bands are looking to recapture that classic heavy metal sound. While many look to the originators of heavy in Ozzy-era Black...
California's greater Bay Area has always been a hotbed for different music. The 60's had an odd hippie wave of bands with The Grateful Dead and Santana,...
Blame the internet if you’re a purist, but black metal has falling into music genres like mad for a long ass time now. You...
In the world of deathcore, there aren’t too many bands that do it for me quite like Whitechapel. The band, to me, represents all...
It’s been two years since Howard Jones left Killswitch Engage, and a year since the first recordings started, but the wait is finally over....
Place yourself in London, 1940–41, during the blitz. Bombs are crashing around you (above you if you’ve taken refuge in the tube), churches and...
Thomas Gabriel Fischer has always been a reluctant ringbearer. Though fiercely proud of his artistic legacy, he's often seemed on unsure footing when he...
European power metal has a tendency towards bombast and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production value. Bands like Blind Guardian and Sabaton build careers on creating music that's as sweeping and...
It's a shame power metal doesn't get more respect or attention because metal fans are missing out on a lot of good releases like...
A profoundly weird display of blackened noise. Weird, off-putting and almost stark in its eschewing of song-structure, any evaluation of Twilight's III: Beneath Trident's...
Rhode Island is not a place you normally think of when the subject of strong metal scenes arise. Vital Remains and The Body spring to mind, but little...
My botany in college was shit and is shit in general (mostly because I never took the class), but in case you were wondering,...
Deathcore is a genre of metal that, for the purist, is one of the worst sub-genres in metal, and, for the most part, it...
With most bands I listen to, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I discovered them. There is a connection to a time, or...
