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What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
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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...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
Only in the Internet age could bands so far away sound so alike. Compare All Shall Perish's (Bay Area) first album with Alienacja (Poland),...
One-man Hungarian black metal: how much more obscure can one get? Paragon Records excel at unearthing hidden gems like Aetherius Obscuritas, aka Arkhorrl, who...
It's odd that George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, vocalist for the world's biggest death metal band, Cannibal Corpse, and pioneer of the "helicopter hair" headbanging technique,...
Most people will know Sickening Horror for drummer George Kollias, of Nile notoriety. This is good in that his work on the Greek band's full-length...
Ah, death metal – the music that refuses to grow up. While black metal is getting busy with electronics, folk music, and dark ambience,...
Seemingly every metal label now has an entry in the retro thrash sweepstakes; Relapse's is Dekapitator. But to the Bay Area band's credit, it...
North Carolina's Killwhitneydead are locked in a death match with California's Graf Orlock for the title of "cinema core" kings. Their M.O. is the...
Bands have been chipping away at Meshuggah's block for a while now, hoping to take away a piece or two to call their own. ...
There are certain record labels which I trust on dealing with bands that have a lot of “artistic credibility”. The End Records has built...
I tend to compare goth metal bands to TYPE O NEGATIVE, as I think TYPE O NEGATIVE is the kind of band who always...
For those new kids out there, “Wages Of Sin” was not ARCH ENEMY's first album! For you melodic metalcore kids still high on LAMB...
What I love about PREMONITIONS OF WAY and EVERY TIME I DIE is the fact that they sound like they locked themselves in a...
I have a special place in my heart for thrash, because that’s where it all started for me. The 90’s however were not kind...
I’m a total sucker for vinyls. The 7″ is one of the most underground releases you can make, and having one makes me feel...
It’s funny what goes on at Wikipedia. Sometimes I don’t think that the article neutrality header comes up often enough. I tried looking up...
I’ve always found it a little sad that DARK FUNERAL have put all their energy into the “all fast songs all the time” routine....
If we travel back far enough in time in the history of DARK FUNERAL, you can see that the lineup revolves around founding guitarist...
Has anyone noticed the large amount of so-called “experimental” or “art” style bands in the world of metalcore that draw heavily from their peers?...
Good old stoner rock. And yeah, it’s stoner rock, because I wouldn’t say it’s heavy enough to be stoner metal. The fuzz just isn’t...
Beautiful woman and metal. Not exactly a combination that you see on a regular basis. Throw in the fact that the beautiful woman...
If there’s one thing I hate about my own reviews, it’s that editing one’s own work is incredibly hard. Just when I thought I...
I popped this album in my CD player and immediately began looking through the insert. I had a record label rep tell me one...
