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Impious' Holy Murder Masquerade has amazingly ingenious liner notes. They take the form of a comic book, with the lyrics as speech and thought...
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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...
Impious' Holy Murder Masquerade has amazingly ingenious liner notes. They take the form of a comic book, with the lyrics as speech and thought...
Metallic hardcore – no more and no less. But before you click away, think about why you might object to those two words. Simplistic...
Recording an album with a band is hard enough; recording one by yourself is exponentially harder. Thus, it's noteworthy when a one-man project like...
Over time, the legendary yet shadowy French black metal act Blut Aus Nord has grown increasingly experimental. On MoRT, it has perhaps both lost...
"Still not loud enough, still not fast enough!" So began Sounds of the Animal Kingdom, Brutal Truth's third and final studio full-length before disbanding...
Well, this rips. Plain and simple. It isn't the most original album around, but Year of Desolation's debut is a ferocious blend of death...
Now this is how you do Swedish melodic death metal! Imagine the hardest parts of Arch Enemy mixed with later Hypocrisy and Dark Tranquillity...
Blood Libels is the third album from French black metallers Antaeus, and it's a hell of a release. Those who enjoyed Cut Your Flesh...
Allow me to state my taxonomic understanding of the no-woman's land between metal and hardcore. When a hardcore band exhibits metallic tendencies, they're, natch,...
For some reason, the YouTube test of guitar proficiency these days is how well one can play Necrophagist songs. Well, The Faceless would wipe...
If you like Hatebreed, you'll love Born From Pain. That's the long and short of it, as well as the good and bad. The...
By now, rock 'n' roll is hardly a new influence on its twice-removed, thrice-disowned cousins, metal and hardcore punk. Entombed started "death 'n' roll"...
"Hail the holy four pillars of uncreation: sodomy, abortion, suicide, and cannibalism!" So reads the "Manifest" on Heresi's website. Heresi is one Skamfer, who...
Two weeks ago I ventured my way into the depths of the underbelly of Detroit, Harpos. For those of you not familiar with the...
When your drummer leaves your band, what do you do? When you're Savannah, GA band Kylesa, and you drink as much as they do,...
A.C.T. is probably closer to rock than metal, but open-minded folks seeking more than the newest br00tal band would do well to give it...
In American law, the doctrine of "fruit of the poisonous tree" refers to the inadmissibility of evidence obtained through illegal means. For example, if...
When it comes to '80s American thrash, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York are the first places that come to mind. However,...
When Manowar do things, they do them big. Their album covers are filled with big men with big muscles holding big swords. Their tunes...
After Coldplay's performance at 2003's MTV Music Awards, host Chris Rock said, "Wow, I hope you didn't slit your wrists to that one." He...
The first time time I heard Into Eternity, they opened for Hate Eternal on a bill heavy with growl-and-gurgle death metal bands. Imagine my...
If Sweden's Wolf had its way, Bruce Dickinson would never have joined Iron Maiden and Rob Halford would never have left Judas Priest. Over...
Okay, I know this is a little late, but whateva you are getting it now. On October 29th I saw one of the most...
