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There's a lot of hype surrounding Atlantean Kodex's sophomore album, The White Goddess, right now. That's not news in and of itself; in any...
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There's a lot of hype surrounding Atlantean Kodex's sophomore album, The White Goddess, right now. That's not news in and of itself; in any...
The term "progressive" gets thrown around in heavy metal. There are many progressive bands out there that find a sound that breaks a little...
Instrumental stoner rock is somewhat of an underutilized angle, Earthless and older Karma to Burn being the only exceptions to spring immediately to mind. And since Karma to Burn began...
Grand Blood, the new album from Boston metal band Doomriders, represents many of the aspects of contemporary metallic hardcore. At once they manage to...
When a band gathers an audience from their inception, expectations get skewed in an unfair way. A hit song can be a blessing in...
You know what the metal world needs more of? Musicals. I'm not saying that ironically either. Sure, we have plenty of prog bands putting out...
In the time before time, there was a major record label that was considered the endgame for any metal band. Long before budget cutbacks,...
When the topic of quality melodic death metal is brought up in conversation (because we're all a little nerdy), Insomnium almost always come up....
Touché Amoré is a progressive/melodic hardcore band hailing out of Los Angeles, best known for their excellent song structure and heartfelt lyricism that is...
It's fitting that the resurgence of both Death Angel and Testament coincided with dual supporting slots on the Anthrax comeback tour two years ago: both are Bay Area thrash acts...
Before I started listening to this album, the first thing I thought of was: "funny they gave it the name Sister, there's an old...
I somehow missed the 2011 debut by Oslo's Beaten to Death – featuring members of Tsjuder, Insense and She Said Destroy – but I can safely rule out Dødsfest! as a sophomore...
Not often does an unknown band blow you away. Boston’s Soul Remnants did just that with their forthcoming album, Black and Blood. And the...
Just in time for a supporting slot with fellow Austinites The Sword – having already toured with that band and Clutch – Texas power trio American Sharks unleash a...
If this were indie rock it would be Altaars or Alltars or ALTRS, but seeing as how we're dealing with metal here it's still Altars, thank you very...
I really enjoyed Soulfly's 2012 album, Enslaved; so I wasn't sure whether to be really excited or a little worried that Max and Co....
Elder statesmen of the Chicago metal scene, and one of the more seasoned lynchpins in American death metal period, Broken Hope emerged fully formed in 1991...
To summarize quickly for those who lack the patience to read this entire review: this is a pure funeral doom record, and a very...
Oranssi Pazuzu (Orange Pazuzu, in the Finnish) don’t easily fit into any particular genre, which makes their music hard to describe. Psychedelic? Yes. Bizarre?...
Since 2003, Alexander von Meilenwald, the former drummer for Nagelfar, has been releasing sprawling black metal epics under the name The Ruins of Beverast. His music starts with...
Dream Theater have had an interesting release history; from classic records like Images and Words and Scenes From A Memory, the band released what's...
Conflicting ideologies seem to spurn the best possible music. The black metal and death metal scenes fought against each other back in the early...
When they landed on this planet in the 80's, no one knew what history would tell about the interstellar group of misfits know to...
