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Listening to Decapitated stirs interesting memories and images that stumble through my mind, most of which are blurry and non-descript. Overall it conjures thoughts...
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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."
Listening to Decapitated stirs interesting memories and images that stumble through my mind, most of which are blurry and non-descript. Overall it conjures thoughts...
1349 is a perplexing creature among the fork-tongued legions of Satan's choirs. Some folks will tell you they are mind-bending visionaries, while others will...
Xerath's III is the perfect amount of cinematic symphonic work and heandbang-until-your-neck-breaks heaviness.
Sometimes it rains, sometime it's Hurricane Katrina hopped up on methamphetamines wielding two baseball bats. Prepare yourself accordingly, but keep in mind you'll be...
September 12th marks the third anniversary of the most recent Anthrax album, Worship Music, so let’s hope this cherry on the cake – a...
Pord offer their own sumthin’-sumthin’ to the noise rock cannon and have a sense of identity that’s greater than being a bunch of French...
With the whirlwind that Bandcamp has become it’s almost becoming hard to notice bands nowadays. The turn out with records is phenomenal and almost...
Dylan Carlson doesn’t exactly abandon his Western noir template on this year’s Primitive and Deadly - an uncharacteristically ho hum album title that serves...
There’s something special about a band like Force of Darkness, a group who takes a no-nonsense approach akin to that of Possessed, Sarcofago, Hellhammer,...
Back Door to Asylum are a technical, brutal death metal unit out of Moscow, Russia, a country that I haven’t heard a whole lot...
The self proclaimed "aliencore" band Rings of Saturn is a sterling example of what space themed metal is. They are not the first ones...
You have never heard anything like Vectorscan and there will never be anything like Vectorscan ever again. I promise you that.
When you’re dealing with a band that’s basically as untouchable as Cannibal Corpse, the fanbase already knows what they’re getting into. And in this...
Hailing from the “if it ain’t broke…” school of thought, Mike Scheidt continues to drive his band YOB to new heights of epic, darkly...
Vermin Womb is one of those bands that reminisce about wrecked neighborhoods. The feeling of an utter, haunting dark isolating that cuts straight to...
The latest incarnation on The Haunted debuted their lineup changes on 70K Tons of Metal cruise, actually a throwback to their early years with...
Where certain oft-criticized bands that changed their sound drastically long ago continue to exercise the fruits of that early fan betrayal on album after...
In 2007, a chill cold rain fell upon the southern city, spawning the growth of Bastard Sapling, a musical collective whose stark, blasting take...
Polyphia stands head and shoulders above their contemporaries in what I can only describe as instrumental progressive rock that sounds like Michael Jackson and...
Listening to Arizona's Take Over And Destroy is almost as fun as writing about them is challenging. How do you even begin describing a band...
If your band is going to experiment with a particular sound, to see where it can go and to what lengths it can be...
When discussions are had about hotbeds of heavy metal activity in the United States, it's safe to say that Ohio is never on the...
Johnny Touch - Creepy band name; tasty NWOBHM throwback bangers.
