Perseverance comes in many forms – in the metal industry, the rewards occur when musicians refuse to chase trends and stick to their own vision, in the hopes that they’ll build a faithful following Read more […]
After coming out strong with their The Cost of Every Man debut, multinational act Recode the Subliminal have returned with their second release, Disconnected. Again going the conceptual route, this time Read more […]
Swiss metal has a specific quality to it in all genres – elevating the impact small and large through the works of Celtic Frost to Coroner to Samael. Although Gonoreas isn’t necessarily cut from that Read more […]
A quarter of the way through the year already, it seems 2018 is showing signs only of speeding up and becoming more expansive. Things on the video end look just as good, with lots of promising new releases Read more […]
Australian heavy rockers Valhalla Lights, despite having only two albums under their belt, have undergone more than many bands. Their first vocalist, Phoebe Black committed suicide before the band had Read more […]
Pioneers of a sound critics term ‘sludge metal’, Crowbar are an entity onto themselves. A rare breed if you will in a heavy music scene where it’s difficult to distinguish originality, once you hear Read more […]
Despite all appearances to the contrary, Godthrymm doesn’t pit introductory violins against forlorn melodies. No Gothic tapestries abound. No solemn reflections of love lost, either. Instead, the freshly-minted Read more […]
Canada has a rich appreciation for all things metal – including the power/progressive genres where many European bands made their first foray into North America by playing key shows in Toronto or Montreal. Read more […]
When you assemble a group of people that are as busy as those in Kino, there’s bound to be some gaps in time between albums. After a critically successful debut back in 2005, Kino had all but disappeared. Read more […]
2018 is already off to an excellent start, and things are just about to pick up with the first moments of spring and the massive amounts of tours to come later in the spring or the fall. So as the last Read more […]
For heavy metal in the United States, the 1990’s was a turbulent time where different forms of music commanded the commercial landscape – and what was once popular in terms of strong, in-tune vocals Read more […]
When it comes to the metal landscape, for better or for worse, there’s a lot of times where the music contains a certain level of homogeneity. We sit in less adventurous times, but every once in a while Read more […]
Chances are that those entrenched in the metal scene remember Amanda Pearl Daniels’ exit from Enabler a few years ago. If not you can catch up on that information HERE. To sum it up, after she had Read more […]
What kind of music do you think a band named screaming beast is going to play? One can make a pretty good bet that it’s going to be something on the heavier side of things. Once again proving the universal Read more […]
Premiere guitarists in the hard rock/metal realm don’t just fall out of the sky. Legendary through his unique single-string attack and tasteful riffing / lead play, Michael Schenker established his abilities Read more […]
It’s not always easy to start up a band. That doubles for heavy metal, where it becomes quite clear that one isn’t going to make a glorious living off of it. A large number of change-ups can make Read more […]
Destruction and doom. Two things that always seem to go hand in hand with heavy metal. The sound of dark heavy riffs just pair well with topics of chaos. The latest proof of this lies in Eyes of the Read more […]
One of metal’s more perpetually underrated bands, Will Haven has had to prove their worth repeatedly over the years. Sure, they had some help in the beginning due to some friendship with the Deftones, Read more […]
If you were to go back a few years, Light the Torch seemed to be taking the metal world by storm. Of course, back then they were called Devil You Know, and the Howard Jones-led act (which also featured Read more […]
It’s difficult to distinguish oneself in the metal landscape these days – even with all these categories and sub-sets within those categories. Hailing from Sweden, Denied first formed in 2004 and gradually Read more […]
In a world that has become quite concerned with instant gratification and the need for things on-demand in real time, Phantom Elite has taken a contrasting and honorable approach. They’ve methodically Read more […]
Being able to put out two full-length albums in a span of exactly one year is an accomplishment. Being able to put out two albums that maintain a consistent high quality is even more rare. But such is Read more […]
In today’s global metal marketplace, there’s always a level of intrigue to see where the next big band could come from. On the melodic death metal front, we have a promising new act from Peru with Read more […]
Per our habit, the content continues to flow here at Dead Rhetoric, including our always-eventual short review column, Rapid Fires. As has become the theme, variety abounds, with virtually all forms of Read more […]
Veterans of the melodic death/thrash extreme metal scene, The Crown started in the early 90’s as Crown of Thorns for two albums on the smaller Swedish label Black Sun, before gaining a deal with Metal Read more […]
A band that seems to be able to quite comfortable in adapting and evolving their sound, it’s been quite interesting to see Pennsylvania’s Rivers of Nihil progress since their first full-length release Read more […]
As March begins, the thoughts of spring once again move our way. Time to get out from the couch or computer chair and get outside and catch the slew of spring tours set to begin shortly. But as we enjoy Read more […]
Though many more may know Chris Santos through one of a number of different cooking and food avenues, such as his New York City restaurants or judging appearances on the Food Network’s Chopped, he has Read more […]
It’s never quiet on the Bandcamp front, so we are going to skip out on the small talk this month and just dive right into the ever-growing number of fantastic bands who’ve released some quality releases Read more […]
With only two EPs under their anonymous names, the gloomy Deathwhite was picked up by Season of Mist last year, just before their first official full-length was set to hit the streets. An impressive feat Read more […]
