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By: Navjot Kaur From the metalhead to the Gaga-worshipper (or those folks who fall into the area in between), there’s something instantly "alluring" and...
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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...
By: Navjot Kaur From the metalhead to the Gaga-worshipper (or those folks who fall into the area in between), there’s something instantly "alluring" and...
by: Navjot Kaur Sobti “The path to salvation is an excuse for aberrations:” A warm welcoming note on the packaging of Nuclear’s Jehovirus. You...
Culling of Wolves is the latest from the Arizona death metal act, Knights of the Abyss. When I started playing this album, the first...
By Ben Apatoff Fear no more. Denver deathgrinders CEPHALIC CARNAGE still sound brutal on Misled by Certainty, their first album without mainstay guitarist ZAC...
by James Zalucky "Thrilling". "Remarkable". "Brilliant." These are the words that nearly every reviewer has been using to describe the new Iron Maiden album,...
by James Zalucky Blood in the Gears is the new album from southern metal act, The Showdown. The album begins with the snarl of...
By Ben Apatoff LORDI look like GWAR. Now that that's out of the way, remember that originality is overrated, and that being a pioneer...
By: Navjot Kaur Sobti When you hear the name Moth Eater, don’t think you’re dealing with some neo-hippie Williamsburg-bred indie fare, nor your typical,...
We sent old-school death metal fan James Zalucky to the NY stop of the Summer Slaughter tour to get an old school fan's perspective...
By Ben Apatoff Even if his leering mug didn't greet you on the cover, any headbanger worth his horns could tell who wrote this...
by: Joseph Romanowski I’m not a huge fan of shtick. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been a teenager for many years...
by James Zalucky When it comes to THE ACACIA STRAIN, I usually enjoy their music live rather than on record. Vincent Bennett's brutalizing growls...
By Ben Apatoff The title (Collisions and Castaways) and cover art (a treasure chest washed upon the shore) of Alaskans 36 CRAZYFISTS' sixth album...
By Ben Apatoff Five records into their career, NORMA JEAN aren't losing any energy. Most metalcore vocalists could learn from CORY BRANDAN's ferocious clean...
By: Navjot Kaur Sobti Now, I’m not usually a chick who has the patience to get through most doom metal, unless it’s my bedtime,...
By Ben Apatoff They've got a band name that's impossible to take seriously. As with their last album, their third release's title sounds like...
In short- the album is great, go buy it, and go see the band live as soon as you can.
Knowing I was about to go see the Melvins for the first time and ISIS for the last time, I knew I had to...
By Ben Apatoff The cover art suggests that they've missed ALICE IN CHAINS' comeback. The title is taken from a a poem that's almost...
by Graham "Gruhamed" Hartmann “Cry for help.” A single drum sounds, echoing into nothingness. Time after time it comes, foreshadowing the dark and depraved...
By Ben Apatoff The leading force in spacey, ambient art-metal recently announced their demise, leaving their influence to an overwhelming number of subpar imitators...
By Ben Apatoff SON OF AURELIUS' label debut, The Farthest Reaches, is already one of the most gushed-about death metal records of the year....
By: Shannon Joy I've spent most summers of my adult life running the festival circuit throughout Europe, though oddly enough, I've never experienced their...
