Black Metal History
Another masterstroke release from Bindrune Recordings, Germany's Waldgeflüster return with an album three years in the making. Called Meine Fesseln, one man mastermind Winterherz...
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Another masterstroke release from Bindrune Recordings, Germany's Waldgeflüster return with an album three years in the making. Called Meine Fesseln, one man mastermind Winterherz...
There's nothing wrong with thrashy-riffs, breakdowns and lyrics damning the pitfalls of modern society.
By 2002, True Norwegian Black Metal had become a shadow of its former self; many of the subgenre's powerhouse bands had either disbanded or...
One of metal’s best kept secrets, San Francisco’s Slough Feg, has returned and the band once known as “The Lord Weird Slough Feg” isn’t any...
There are plenty of politically charged heavy metal bands, but few of them are as ambitious as Avram. Avram is less a band than a...
Brooklyn, New York's Yellow Eyes are relatively new to the USBM game having just released their debut album in 2012. Despite the band's relative...
Among the most underground black metal units the band Incurus is one that remains really, well, underground. VJS’ one-man fronted abrasive black metal assault...
To put it simply, if nobody told me Warforged's Essence of the Land EP was a debut I would have just assumed it was written...
I hope you’re ready for some fuckin thrash… not the tired repetitive trash you hear trying to pass for thrash in recent years, but...
If you were to write Hexis off based solely on the knowledge that they're yet another in a long line of blackened hardcore bands, you...
I think supergroups are so hit and miss. They have so much hype that has close to nothing to do with their actual music....
Gorgoroth. That’s it. That’s all you really need right? You know black metal, right? Has there ever been a single shred of doubt about...
We review the powerful new Lamb of God documentary.
Plagues of Babylon sees Iced Earth edging closer to the more sprawling epics we got used to seeing from them in the past.
Almost any discussion about black metal invariably starts by referencing bands from the second wave of the sub-genre like Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, and Immortal. It's not surprising since...
Protean Collective, a heavy progressive-rock band from Boston, has emerged with a new album called The Red and the Grey. I wrote about them...
We've been waiting patiently for five years since Behemoth dropped their 2009 blasphemy Evangelion. Obviously nobody could be angry about the wait given frontman,...
What makes Nemesis Divina worth repeated listening and fond waxing in articles like this one is the brilliant creativity and utterly transcendent musicality and...
Fans of The Haunted have been pretty disappointed over the past six years. While the band's first four records are still holding up well...
Blackened death metal. Lvcifyre's style is by now an old, well-established form of extreme music with its own tropes and series of listener expectations....
I love how Caliban has rolled with some of the minor changes that metalcore has had over the years. I got into them right...
The topic of ‘supergroup’ or ‘all-star’ band conjures some images of epic failures and some distinguished triumphs; De La Tierra being billed this way immediately...
