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Maryland death metal stalwarts, Dying Fetus; return with their 7th album Reign Supreme which follows their last effort Descent Into Depravity nearly 3 years ago....
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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."
Maryland death metal stalwarts, Dying Fetus; return with their 7th album Reign Supreme which follows their last effort Descent Into Depravity nearly 3 years ago....
Finally: a Fear Factory record that can be regarded without the context of high drama hanging over its release. Burton C. Bell and Dino...
Unlike other old school Swedish death metal bands like Entombed and In Flames, who have frequently tweaked their musical formula in order to evolve...
The PR cycle for Psalms of the Dead comes front loaded with some unfortunate news: after five years of fronting Candlemass, singer Robert Lowe...
Some metal bands age better than others. Come to think of it, some metal genres age better than others. As far as I can...
Epic. Masterpiece. Mind-blowing. Superlative, superlative, superlative. It's hard to hide my excitement here; Portal Of I, down to its final note, is the perfect...
There’s no doubting Six Feet Under’s significance to the death metal world. With an extensive contribution and library to the death metal canon, how...
Sweden’s Marduk has long been one of my favorite Black Metal acts. While they are rightly criticized for their overuse of blast-beats and other...
Mutilation Rites’ discography is a bit confounding, traversing multiple line-ups, demos, splits, and EPs. The band’s rapid gestation has been very public, but every...
If Umskiptar offers me little else, it at least represents closure. I gave last year's Fallen good marks – a review I still stand...
If you’re like me, you might forever associate John 5 with Marilyn Manson, and depending on who you are, that might be a bad...
Shadows Fall has made its name as one of the most influential and popular metal bands of the last ten years. Despite this fact,...
Dopesmoker was never gonna fly; not as an album title, not on a major label. It was actually the least of the band's worries....
Cattle Decapitation like to give mixed signals: on the one hand, there are the songs beloved by animal rights activists that decry factory farm...
I often associate death/doom with waiting, persevering for that perfect riff, enduring the dirge for that most heart-rending of melodies. My ears don't deal...
Anyone who was on MySpace around the year 2005 was probably introduced to Job For A Cowboy at one point and time. I’ll never...
If there’s one subgenre of metal that has way too many bands to claim, it’s probably metalcore. Nowadays, you really have to be cutting...
Owing either to their Italian origins or a discography heretofore released on small, defunct labels or the band's own Supernatural Cat imprint – most...
Over the last decade Pelican have increasingly positioned themselves at the clean, accessible end of the post-metal spectrum, their spare, uncluttered sonority more of...
A couple years ago, I was surprised to hear of ZP Theart’s departure from Dragonforce. Apparently the separation was due to “insurmountable differences of...
If there’s only one well-known Christian metal band, it’s probably Demon Hunter. They’ve been out for over 10 years now and they've become somewhat...
Weregoat may be from Portland but they want no fucking part of that "Cascadian black metal" shit. Featuring Kevin Schreutelkamp, drummer of Ritual Necromancy,...
Acephalix breathe life into fetid, sepulchral death with crust punk beats and chest-bursting rage. Deathless Master is a subtle refinement of the ripping, rupturous...
