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Australia has steadily gained a reputation for mind-blowing metal (Ignivomous being a personal favorite of mine), and Abominator, formed in 1994, is certainly part...
Confounding their critics, Moonspell's albums since Sin/Pecado give the impression that after each album cycle they form their own chrysalis, reemerging when the time...
Aldafǫðr ok munka dróttin was crafted as an ode to the nomadic spirit of the Scandinavian people, whom history has dubbed vikings. As such...
While the background and story of Norway’s Haust may be all over the grill of the internet and supportive print publications, they don’t come...
Kollwitz hail from the Norwegian port town of Bodø and if extreme conditions demand extreme responses, as a quartet of great men once said,...
The smashing, crusted out grindcore that is Occult 45 has dropped their latest offering Human Abhorrence. Those that know the Philldelphia, PA crew's schtik...
No Spill Blood formed in a few years back as a quasi-super group of the scene. They feature members of Elk, Magic Pockets, and...
Setting aside the fact that they were one of the first non-Israeli bands signed from the Middle East, with their foundations in geographic and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nostalgia has a way of influencing music. It's especially pervasive in the hyper-regressive world of heavy metal where bands are frequently judged by how...
