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Houston is known for scorching heat, 110% humidity, it's status as the United States' fattest city and a crime rate that rivals New York...
Dreary as hell, but in a good way – Sweden's Mortuus drags the listener on a gentle descent into the abyss. After an initial...
Perhaps Minus the Herd refers to the hordes of bands mining chaotic metalcore now. Bands everywhere are mixing death metal, grindcore, math metal, and...
Every once in a while, an album comes along that gives you goose bumps. 'Ashes of the Wake,' 'Spiritual Black Dimensions,"Annihilation of the Wicked'-...
Buy a neck brace. That seems to be the message that August Burns Red is trying to get across with their sophomore release Messengers....
I know this review is about a year over due, but I felt that it was about time someone gave this band a little...
Job for a Cowboy is not at all the name one would expect for one of the most innovative and powerful up and coming...
What an album cover! An electric eye sizes up a scantily clad woman, whose hair looks freshly shampooed, and who casts two faint neon...
Except for perhaps Brazil's Violator, California's Merciless Death is the cream of today's "retro thrash" crop. It's hardly infernal overkill to say that Evil...
Deadlock is a combination of what are probably now the most nauseating ingredients in metal – nth generation melodic Swedish death metal, screamed verses, and...
For whatever reasons, Chris Barnes and Six Feet Under cause strong reactions in the metal community. Some have personal beef with Barnes; others deride...
Over three full-lengths and a slew of splits, Poland's Antigama have honed their simultaneously retro and futuristic take on grindcore. The latter aspect has...
Throne of Katarsis isn't for the impatient. On the Norwegian band's debut full-length, An Eternal Dark Horizon, it unfolds five songs over 55 minutes. ...
It's pompous. It's polished and perfect. The first instrumental solo is blistering, full of fleet fingering and hot bends – on keyboards. The kind...
Before Behemoth became a death metal juggernaut, it played black metal. Of course, its death metal is often called "blackened," and the Polish band...
Straightedge metallic hardcore punk brimming with breakdowns – who needs more of this stuff? Turns out that a well-done X-fest is surprisingly refreshing in...
Death metal is almost 20 years old, and for having such explosive beginnings in Sweden, England, and Florida, its rate of progress has slowed...
What Gojira was last year, Hacride is this year – a French metallic missile that should detonate devastatingly across the Atlantic. Put away those...
I really want to hate this, but I can't. Christian metalcore with touches of emo – this album came with three strikes against it....
On its debut full-length, San Diego's Warface serves up no-frills, old-school death metal. Suffocation comes to mind in the death growls, blastbeats alternating with...
Marty Friedman is best known as Megadeth's lead guitarist from Rust in Peace until Risk. However, his solo career, while inconsistent, has been perhaps...
In some ways, this album (and this review) is a triumph against the odds. First, Equal Vision sent this CD in a plain, unpromising...
When you review the band responsible for your employer's theme song, your hands are a little tied. The opening riffs of "Praise the Lord...
