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"Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead is surely one of Avatarium's finest LPs due to its consistent songwriting and familiar yet wide-ranging...
"Simply calling this black metal, or even post-black metal, risks overlooking the ways this band has grown past labels, pursuing catharsis instead of acceptance."
The adjective "eldritch" has been getting thrown around a lot lately in the metal community, particularly on Facebook and Twitter status updates, so much...
Thrash metal is supposed to be full of politically-charged lyrics, ridiculous guitar work that requires the listener to pay attention at all times, guitar...
Return To Annihilation is Locrian's most accessible album, although "accessible" is a subjective word. Considering how challenging much of the Chicago trio's back catalog...
D.R.I. hasn't reared their heads on record since 1995's Full Speed Ahead, a duration which vastly exceeds the length of the band's recorded history to...
Children of Bodom have never taken themselves all that seriously. For a band that is probably known to more random Youtubers for their novelty cover...
Are you about to go on an adventure and you are just plum out of ideas of how to score it? Well, Scale The...
Holy hell, you guys! The metal gods heard my complaining last week. I made the mistake of bitching about not enough notable releases, and...
A certain amount of fanfare trumpets the return of the regal beast that is Black Sabbath: neither a comically castrating reality show nor endless amounts...
Topping their 2011 record Bilateral was going to be simply impossible; Leprous achieved something with that one. Instead, the band took a much different,...
Be'lakor's Of Breath and Bone takes a little while to grow on you. On the first few listens, it's difficult to really grasp what...
Before I start the rest of this review, let me share a little anecdote with you. I finally got to see Integrity live a...
Mouth of the Architect are sticking to their guns on Dawning with some seriously quality post-metal that presents itself naturally and without any bells...
For a variety of reasons, The Black Dahlia Murder was once a pariah to many self-styled "true metalheads", who tied them to the metalcore...
There's something unsettling about the music of Tristan Shone, a.k.a. Author & Punisher. It's hard to pinpoint, but there's a certain menace about the...
On the tenth anniversary of the release of Metallica's St. Anger, Rob remembered that I had made some off the cuff remarks that some...
The nouveau thrash movement may or may not be dead, but, regardless of how you feel about the genre's well being, Texas' Power Trip...
I’ll confess that I didn’t know Orphaned Land existed until Public Radio International’s The World aired a story on the band in February 2011,...
This album has gotten so much bad press that it's hard to approach with an open mind. As a huge Megadeth fan, and someone...
This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that...
With an artfully arranged title – Sunbather – splayed across a sunkissed gradient ranging from salmon to pink lemonade, you'd be forgiven for Deafheaven had jumped labels to...
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions....
Six years. I still can’t believe it has been six years since Era Vulgaris was released. In some ways, this wait didn’t seem that...
Rudiments of Mutilation. Do you even need anything beyond that? It's a title that is immediately identifiable and stands out. It's one of those...
