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Southern Lord would eat these guys up. No Salvation play a sludge/stoner-friendly hardcore that doesn't fit neatly into one category but would immediately gel on the...
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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."
Southern Lord would eat these guys up. No Salvation play a sludge/stoner-friendly hardcore that doesn't fit neatly into one category but would immediately gel on the...
An ominous chorus begins to swell as a deadpan drum is beaten in the background. A voice comes onto the microphone like a demonic...
Two years after breaking through with Furnace, Brooklyn's finest, Batillus, are back with Concrete Sustain, a collection of six fairly lengthy but surprisingly lean and focused updates on...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
If their recent history is any guide, Anthrax has made a great comeback. After a string of mediocre albums and a some time spent...
Having been on Victory Records through an entire album cycle now, and with a cover of D.R.I.'s classic "I Don't Need Society" in the track...
I didn’t expect I’d be hearing another Six Feet Under album so soon, since their last album, Undead was released less than a year...
If your idea of heaviness is congruent with screamed vocals, you won't find Habitual Levitations any uptick in brutality over the previous Intronaut album, Valley of Smoke. If...
Körkarlen, or The Phantom Carriage, was released in 1921 and directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström. According to its story, the...
If you were to make a list of the most influential U.K. hardcore/punk and metal bands, you could not avoid putting Heresy on the...
Let's be real about this: Clutch is one of the only hard rock bands in the world worth caring about. A howling, bombed out wilderness...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
KEN Mode have attained a whole new level of pissed off with Entrench that I wasn't even sure was possible to convey in a...
When I saw Nails at New England Metal and Hardcore Fest in 2011, I was instantly won over. They had such a raw, no...
There’s been quite the buzz around Killswitch Engage as of late, what with Howard Jones’ departure and original vocalist Jesse Leach stepping in to...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
When you think of blast beats you're mind probably goes to something like Napalm Death or Rotten Sound nowadays. Perhaps Pig Destroyer's Prowler in...
In 1986 a demo was recorded in about six hours by small Newcastle band for £25 (about $37). The piece was as rough as...
By the turn of the century, Enslaved had produced a quartet of compelling albums, establishing themselves as reliable and unique purveyors of the blackened...
Not that I would want to subject myself to the hair-splitting involved, but if I had to give you an example of "true metal",...
It's both ironic and fitting that, while debate heats with every passing year about who is more "kvlt" in the realm of black metal,...
Shai Hulud is undeniably one of the most important bands of the last 15 years. On the front lines of metallic-hardcore, they had a...
As part of Black Metal History Month, we will be spotlighting classic albums that we feel are essential for any fan of black metal. This...