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Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt...
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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."
Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt...
With Fuck the Facts, there is no point of reference. The band's fierce creativity renders metal genre taxonomy useless. Beyond grindworthy vocals, their past...
With all due respect to New Orleans, the center of the sludge universe has in recent years shifted to Savannah, Georgia, that sleepy burg...
On a cold February evening this year, I went to see Absu and Immortal play at the Gramercy Theater in NYC. Although I mainly...
Rwake have never been the type of band to look at a wheel and decide it needs reinventing. This is not a knock… music...
Time off has been good to Primus. Having seemingly fizzled out with 1999's artistically disastrous Antipop – stunt cast with such head-scratching guest appearances...
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...
