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Gothenburg, Sweden's used-to-be best kept secret until last year's masterful Empress Rising, Monolord, have unveiled their latest heavy hitter that comes fully equipped with...
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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."
Gothenburg, Sweden's used-to-be best kept secret until last year's masterful Empress Rising, Monolord, have unveiled their latest heavy hitter that comes fully equipped with...
Five years ago, when Germany’s Morgoth announced their return to active duty after a twelve year layoff, there was a pretty good chance I...
Honestly, the only complaint I could possibly make about the album is “it’s been done before,” which only bears out the answer “please keep...
Sulphur Aeon has been a staple in my daily diet of metal, and upon seeing the artwork for Gateway to the Antisphere, I knew...
April 21st, 2015 marks the 3rd release by Abiotic. Since their forming in 2010, the band has constructed an EP in 2011, as well...
I have not had a best relationship in the past with Nightwish. I love symphonic metal, and when it’s done right it’s done right...
One of the higher quality acts to take shape during the pagan folk metal explosion of the 00's, Heidevolk emerged from the Netherlands with...
It's been six years since the last Minsk record - 2009's With Echoes in the Movement of Stone. When that amount of time passes,...
Unpleasant, ugly, vile, and grim with the viciousness of a cinder block to the teeth. That's one way you could encapsulate the skin peeling...
If you were to listen to Persisting Devolution without any background information, it would be easy to mistake the album for some forgotten relic...
Karyn Crisis is an artistic and spiritual polymath who always seems to have various soul wrenching projects on the go, which she juggles as...
For those of us who often lament that there’s no energy left in punk, that its all been done before (over and over again),...
Since regression is a return to a former or less developed state, one will doubtless see the new Theories album in a matter of...
As with many bands that start off mixing and matching disparate sub-genre tropes to varying effect, Barren Earth have grown exponentially in terms of...
It's good to step out of your comfort zones once in awhile, if not often. If nothing else for the sole sake of opening...
There are a lot of things to like about this album. As a Nasum tribute, you’d be hard-pressed to find an effort better executed...
The newest album by Royal Thunder, Crooked Doors, due out for release next month, is already getting a lot of buzz in the metal...
Erg, another covers record, right? These are usually the domain of washed up bands bereft of ideas, and even the most die hard apologists...
pace doom progenitors Ufomammut, perhaps cut off from the immediacy of scene influences due to their residence in the mountainous Piedmont region of northwestern...
Oceano has now released three separate albums since they formed in 2006. On March 23rd, 2015, their fourth and newest album, Ascendants, will be...
To what extent criticism of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is justified is of much less relevance than the fact that The Ark Work seems deliberately fashioned...
Immortal Randy Rhoads is not the first tribute album to the guitar great, but compared to many other legendary bands and artists the Rhoads...
Dødheimsgard have never failed to deliver challenging listens that require the listener’s time to delve into and absorb, and things are no different on...
