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Crack the Skye left me with some rather bittersweet and curious feelings towards the future and direction of Mastodon, one of the genre’s most...
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"KaliYuga is a streamlined album, with a minimal amount of filler."
Crack the Skye left me with some rather bittersweet and curious feelings towards the future and direction of Mastodon, one of the genre’s most...
With Machine Head, I have to try my best to be fair. 2007’s The Blackening was an awesome record, but I’ve always had trouble...
When it comes to thrash, I’m a very easy sell. So long as the songs are well made, have solid vocals, and most importantly,...
Hardcore in its myriad forms is outside of my comfort zone. It's funny, then, that I should be so comfortable with the music of...
I would be willing to bet that the early Norwegian black metal bands didn’t anticipate their style of music to actually last for a...
It’s been almost impossible to avoid hearing about Dream Theater this past year if you’ve been exposed to metal in any way. The news...
"Time bomb… ticking away, ticking away". These lyrics from the bridge of "Earth On Hell" are surely deliberate. Faced with both the personal flame...
"If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before....
The Armageddon chord is the first novel by musician and songwriter Jeremy Wagner. In a broad sense, the book is a fun, fast-paced explosion...
People really want Stuart Dahlquist to stay doom. Breathe doom, sweat doom, shit doom. Every new album the guy puts out seems to be...
Recently, while cleaning my house, blasting Rust in Peace and playing air guitar with the vacuum cleaner hose, I began to ponder metal's rejuvenating...
Flourishing don't play by anyone's rules. This is often a hallmark of interesting music that isn't ultimately engaging or enduring. The Sum of All...
What the fuck is going on in Oregon? Some of the most forward thinking yet hazy, cerebral and generally unhappy music of recent years...
While in the process of reviewing this album, I had a bit of a debate with a good friend of mine about Trivium. He...
I generally try to shy away from direct band comparisons, unless the antecedents were such blatant influences that to ignore them would be to...
As someone who has seen Decapitated twice since their last release, once with Vitek and once without, I have been very eager to hear...
When you're obligated (or just want) to listen to as much music as I do, it becomes difficult if not impossible to "memorize" a...
One could say a lot of good things about Unearth. In 2001, with most emerging metal bands still mired in the colossal waste of...
Blut Aus Nord walk a path of relentless evolution. If you've traveled this road with them, you're certain to have an open mind 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...
With this year’s Summer Slaughter Tour coming up quickly, The Black Dahlia Murder could not have picked a better time to release their fifth...
"Evinta. A project almost 15 years in the making. An idea that has sat smoldering and never really had a reason to burn alive...
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...
