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Australia has steadily gained a reputation for mind-blowing metal (Ignivomous being a personal favorite of mine), and Abominator, formed in 1994, is certainly part...
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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."
Australia has steadily gained a reputation for mind-blowing metal (Ignivomous being a personal favorite of mine), and Abominator, formed in 1994, is certainly part...
Confounding their critics, Moonspell's albums since Sin/Pecado give the impression that after each album cycle they form their own chrysalis, reemerging when the time...
Aldafǫðr ok munka dróttin was crafted as an ode to the nomadic spirit of the Scandinavian people, whom history has dubbed vikings. As such...
While the background and story of Norway’s Haust may be all over the grill of the internet and supportive print publications, they don’t come...
Kollwitz hail from the Norwegian port town of Bodø and if extreme conditions demand extreme responses, as a quartet of great men once said,...
The smashing, crusted out grindcore that is Occult 45 has dropped their latest offering Human Abhorrence. Those that know the Philldelphia, PA crew's schtik...
No Spill Blood formed in a few years back as a quasi-super group of the scene. They feature members of Elk, Magic Pockets, and...
Setting aside the fact that they were one of the first non-Israeli bands signed from the Middle East, with their foundations in geographic and...
For the past 16 years, Psycroptic has been enthusiastically creating technical death metal from the small island of Tasmania, just off the coast of...
Leviathan’s excellent new album sounds like...death metal! From the crushing low-end riffs, to the guttural vocals and pinch harmonics, this reminds me less of...
Enslaved were one of the earlier Scandinavian bands to begin rigorously unraveling the increasingly staid black metal template. Though they've been at this "controlled...
Motor Sister is at their absolute best when they are letting it all hang out in a clinic of no fucks given, good times...
With such a massive and varied back catalog, it's hard to anticipate what new Dhampyr music is going to sound like. It could be...
Taken By the Sun hasn't been the most active band when it comes to productivity. After a five song demo EP in 2013 the...
Like the deep forest fog for which they are named, Romania's darkest metal export has slithered its way through the underground and into the...
Pelican's discography has gotten increasingly "single"-heavy over the years, so it's not surprising that they've opted to rebound from last year's excellent live album, Artika,...
France’s Death Engine doesn’t sound like Neurosis per se, but there’s a definite artistic aesthetic informed, influenced and inspired by the Oakland post-metal legends....
Torche lost of a bit of goodwill with me on the last album, Harmonicraft. They'd always had a knack for melody, sure, but their trajectory...
If you’re going to listen to Oceans Ate Alaska for the first time, the things you’ll notice right away (apart from common metalcore tropes)...
There are a lot of purist black metal bands that hide behind the shield of "keeping it trve" to defend rote, uninspired songwriting, but...
Erazor is known as a blackened thrash metal band from Germany. Though this may conjure up thoughts of bands like Aura Noir and Destroyer...
There's no taking it easy or leaving time to breathe for a band like Primitive Man. The band has laid down some of the...
When listening to Eye of Providence, it feels is as if an entire new band is here. It's quite a drastic step in a...
