Reviews
By Ben Apatoff Shame on anyone who pronounces thrash metal to be dead. Bands like MUNICIPAL WASTE and SKELETONWITCH are fanning the neo-thrash flame...
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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 Ben Apatoff Shame on anyone who pronounces thrash metal to be dead. Bands like MUNICIPAL WASTE and SKELETONWITCH are fanning the neo-thrash flame...
By Ben Apatoff UPDATE: You can now stream the entire disc on the band's MySpace page. (Also, don't miss our epic live footage of...
By Ben Apatoff It may not be fair to compare DOOMRIDERS to guitarist/vocalist NATE NEWTON's better known day job, but Darkness Come Alive delivers...
by James Greene, Jr. The term "epic" has been bandied about with such regularity in recent years that it hardly has one drop of...
By Ben Apatoff Even without the high profile of a deservedly popular animated documentary series, it's easy to see why DETHKLOK have the highest-charting...
By Ben Apatoff New PEARL JAM sounding too soft? Still too soon to discuss the latest CHRIS CORNELL debacle? Fear not, grungeheads, because ALICE...
by Ben Apatoff Like recent SLAYER or IRON MAIDEN, every new MEGADETH release comes an inevitable wave of "return to form" and "best since...
Review by James Greene, Jr. Dictionary.com defines the word “deflorate” as “past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.” That seems wickedly apropos for...
Well, I've been back for about a day now and of all the places I definitely miss Amsterdam the most. Yes, the weed is...
Kicking off with a gargled bellow (that sounds like the Polish equivalent of "You wanted the best, you got the best!"), BEHEMOTH return with...
JOB FOR A COWBOY may be death metal's answer to MATISYAHU. Both victims and beneficiaries of an overwhelming amount of hype, JFAC have roped...
Two years after releasing the catchiest sludge metal album in history, BIG BUSINESS are back, this time with a guitarist. For whatever distinction they've...
(Full disclosure: HULL are bros of the MI crew. Unfortunately, their music also happens to rule.) Hullking (sorry) out of Brooklyn onto The End...
DAATH's newest album, The Concealers, has several good songs, impeccable musicianship and enough variety to consistently hold interest. It won't change your life, but...
The trailer to Majesty, the new DVD from The Black Dahlia Murder I love seeing how bands act offstage. It's one of the reasons...
Wednesday night, for the first time in my life, I shot a show where I was scared shit out of my pants while standing...
Their Georgia home base, crossover appeal, sporadic tempo changes and blend of classic rock, stoner and alternative influences may all scream the name of...
Now that hipsters, non-metal rock fans, ERIC CLAPTON's label, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's producer and mainstream publications have caught on, you no longer need underground metal...
In most movies, Manhattan is made out to be a high-fashion metropolis with everyone in black pant suits on 5th Ave and super chic...
As a visionary for NILE, KARL SANDERS re-imagined death metal as hymns of the sphinx, anthems for the pharaoh, the cover art of Powerslave...
Every week Whenever they feel like it, the editors of The Apparatus webzine will present a new tech album that you should do yourself...
Last weekend will be a weekend that I will never forget. Vice Magazine and Scion (the car company) teamed up to present Scion Rock...
No band has done more for American metal under the Bush years than LAMB OF GOD. For eight years, Virginia's finest upped the ante...
