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Pallbearer roared into 2012 with enormous expectations, being one of the most hyped new bands in years without an actual album under their belt....
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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."
Pallbearer roared into 2012 with enormous expectations, being one of the most hyped new bands in years without an actual album under their belt....
In spite of a long, logical progression toward a distilled all-prog sound, 2011's Heritage failed to benefit from the nearly unanimous acclaim Opeth had...
Despite hailing from the relatively well-off economic hub of Padua, Italy, Children of Technology has created a dystopian air around themselves. Their image is...
After the band's initial assembly in 2007, and creating a self-titled full length album, Those Who Bring The Torture then disbanded in 2010. In...
Digital Dream Sequence is a planned attack on your ears, meticulously written to encompass all the violent, destructive natures of metal, but wrapped up...
What does this four piece band have going for them that sets them apart from this already abundant genre? This answer can be summed...
Teutonic thrashers Accept found new life in 2009, reforming with New Jersey born vocalist Mark Tornillo, a man whose vocals came close enough to...
All You Need To is a record that takes all your concentration and rewards you with an intricate trance of complex music that deserves...
When your public nemesis is the likes of Gene Simmons, it's not difficult to come off as the sympathetic party in the Kisstory war...
If you're a fan of Dragonforce, definitely get this record. If you're looking for something new, give it a listen but know you're not...
In simplest terms, Back to the Front is essentially canonical Entombed: even with Hellid's departure, the remaining members had all been touring with the...
May 2008 was the first year I attended New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, and though I’ve been to several since then with impressive...
Nachtmystium has returned for one final album, and Blake Judd and pals are feeling evil, weird, and a little groovy as per usual.
2014 has been great to power metal fans so far. Edguy, Freedom Call, Iron Savior, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, and Sabaton have all released...
Protestant is a Milwaukee, WI crust band with plenty of hardcore and metal influences to spare. The band has built a lengthy legacy since...
It’s nothing new to mash up grindcore, death metal, d-beat, and thrash. After all, it’s a smorgasbord of many of the best genres metal...
There are some moments, some riffs and some arrangements that get the blood pumping, moments of drama that pull you into the band’s dark...
Austin Lunn is one of the most original talents working in the U.S. black metal community today. Through his black metal project Panopticon, he's...
Many of the ideas and riffs go back as far as Entrails’ early '90s salad days and most of these songs have already appeared...
If you gathered all the rage of the youth, fixed in all the fucked up things you see in life from petty attitudes to...
Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wolvhammer made waves back in 2011 with crusty black metal gem The Obsidian Plains, cementing them as rising shadows in the...
Cardinal Wyrm's second album, Black Hole Gods, is an hour long soundscape woven from the fabric of doom, occult rock, goth, and psychedelia. It's...
Wovenwar is the supergroup of the bands As I Lay Dying and Oh, Sleeper. They were formed from the events in 2013, when AILD...
