After three studio albums and a quality live DVD release, Italian modern melodic metal band Temperance parted ways with three members in a two-year period – including singer Chiara Tricarico and keyboardist/drummer Read more […]
Despite the ups and downs of today’s society, there’s always a guarantee that there will be some new music, and new videos by that same measure, to keep everyone’s sanity (relatively) intact. So with Read more […]
This very site recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Along the way, we’ve cranked out an insanely high number of reviews, in large part to our dutiful staff, whose knowledge of, and enthusiasm for Read more […]
Even if you aren’t directly aware of the visual art icon Derek Hess, chances are you have seen his work through covers of albums within the hard rock and metal scenes (Sepultura, In Flames, and Unearth, Read more […]
Things have been continuing to rocket skywards for Delain over the past few years. Following their last record, 2016’s Moonbathers, they made their way over for their first North American headlining Read more […]
This is the second year in a row Finnish metallers Battle Beast scored a prime opening slot here on North American shores. Last year, the Finns had the honor (or good fortune) of opening for Sabaton, who, Read more […]
Those hip to the underground scene are most likely familiar with Inferi. After releasing two albums in the last decade before going under for a bit, they returned to some celebrated fanfare with The Path Read more […]
Continuing a steady rise upwards with each new release, Ingested have been making a name for themselves over the past few years within the extreme metal scene. They’ve done it without having to stoop Read more […]
During the 1980’s, melodic hard rock and heavy metal became a staple on the North American scene as bands reached arena audiences and sold millions of records. As the genres advanced and evolved, certain Read more […]
In modern times, saying that one’s music has a cinematic feel often ends up simply meaning that they use some over the top keyboard and/or orchestrations. But some bands have been setting out to change Read more […]
Few bands within the metal realms are as universally appreciated as Amorphis. Whether it’s their songwriting strengths or their compulsion to experiment and tinker with their sound throughout the years, Read more […]
Spring North American tours are beginning to pick up speed now that we’ve successfully left another cold winter behind us. As far as Bandcamp is concerned, it’s par for the course that as the year begins Read more […]
This past October, Totalselfhatred posted a Facebook update detailing some lineup changes. A painful necessity of a functioning band, lineup alterations are complex as they are frustrating, something that Read more […]
Back in the late 1990’s when the internet began infiltrating the world at a middle-class level, people took solace in discovering new methods of music thanks to the MP3- a digital music file that would Read more […]
It takes more than simply being ‘very good’ in order to progress in today’s music scene. A band has to have something to make them stand out against the other bands vying for the same spots and Read more […]
Fresh off an opening slot in support of former Manowar guitarist Ross the Boss, budding guitar hero Ethan Brosh sounds relieved to be back in the comfort in his own environs. The life of an instrumental Read more […]
The second chapter of the ambitious Prevail series II for Canada’s Kobra and the Lotus continues to push the band into expansive directions of where they want to go, in turn transforming who they are Read more […]
Any leg up you can get in the industry to establish credibility, artists are wise to use those tools given the limitless options for entertainment within the ears and eyes of the consumers. For Danish Read more […]
Metal musicians evolve just as their varied interests they possess in the field. For guitarist/vocalist Matt Moliti, he felt the need to expand from his power/progressive metal roots that he developed Read more […]
An album that took over a year to complete, Operus’s Cenotaph debut full-length does not approach epic metal lightly. If we were to tap a band to score a big-budget, summer blockbuster, then look no Read more […]
Jumping into the fray back in the mid-2000s, a time when the American metal scene was fixated on the metalcore movement, The Absence unveiled their first slab of clearly European-inspired melodic death Read more […]
A band name like Nekrogoblikon is going to get you thrust into a certain light. But they also wouldn’t have it any other way. Where metal bands often struggle with becoming too absurd, Nekrogoblikon Read more […]
Where have all the axe heroes in metal gone? Remember the days when everyone wanted to emulate everyone from Randy Rhoads to Yngwie Malmsteen? The height of popularity for instrumental records took place Read more […]
Progressive metal has peaks and valleys in popularity. Such is the circular nature of an ever-changing musical landscape – as well as listeners who need to invest time, energy, effort, and finances into Read more […]
Many young bands have grand ambitions, but Israel’s Scardust comes across on the short list of bands that have already been able to deliver on their promises. The progressive metal act has only last Read more […]
A brief, minor factoid about this scribe: He’s owned a Kalmah shirt since 2010; it’s the one issued en masse after The Black Waltz with the band’s logo big and bold on the front, and their ever-faithful Read more […]
One of those examples of hard work eventually paying off, Gozu had been slowly working their way around in the metal underground for the last ten years (and three albums). But fortune finally struck for Read more […]
In this month’s Rapid Fires, our short review column that helps us keep up with the onslaught of underground releases, we have a Freedom Hawk, Troll, and Zeke, sort of the “What’s in a name” edition of Read more […]
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 […]
