Let us not play the geographical card with Ravensire. They may be from Lisbon, Portugal, but their brand of vintage, denim-loving metal totally screams the U.K. Germany, and west coast of the U.S. In essence, Read more […]
First rule of being in a band: blame the drummer when something goes wrong. Or, replace he/she with a machine. As anyone who has been in, or been around a band, (good) drummers are in short supply. They’re Read more […]
In 2003, The Black Dahlia Murder came (mostly) out of nowhere to release their debut Unhallowed. Thirteen years later, they have become one of the biggest and revered bands of the death metal scene. It Read more […]
Since early on in their career, Soilwork has had to deal with a number of line-up changes. At this point, vocalist Björn Strid is the only remaining original band member, with a number who have came Read more […]
Symphonic metal can be a difficult genre to establish oneself – especially in the United States, where to many non-believers the metal genre is just a bunch of screams, growls, and loud noise. The truth Read more […]
The journey of Aborted from their humble beginnings in the late ‘90s as simply picking up the Carcass torch to being a death metal juggernaut over the past 20 years has been an uphill battle. Plagued Read more […]
DR didn’t bring this up to main Diamond Head man Brian Tatler, but it was on purpose that we didn’t ask any Metallica-related questions. Isn’t there more to the legendary British metallers than James, Read more […]
Formation: 2009 Location: Mo I Rana, Norway Style: Would be too obvious to call it black metal…blackened thrash would be better. Personnel: Per Valla (vocals, guitars), Stone (bass); Felix (drums) Latest Read more […]
Spring is officially in the air, and with it a slew of new releases to consume and absorb. Albums squeezing out before festival season starts and the busy fall North American market surges. As always, Read more […]
2015 was a big year for Austalia’s Sanzu. Initially releasing the well-received Painless EP, they picked up some traction from the online community as a band that understood how to take a death metal Read more […]
If you think of bands in the death metal genre that have been gaining more and more traction over the past few years, Fallujah has to come to mind pretty quickly. Their initial offering, The Harvest Wombs, Read more […]
Resurrection of careers due to an audience keen on catching up with metal history is more prevalent today than ever. One can look at the number of reunions and re-issues to see that a lot of the old guard Read more […]
When people toss around the term supergroup, it has a tendency to lose its meaning. But such is not the case with Entheos, who seem to wear the title well. There’s Evan Brewer (ex-The Faceless) on Read more […]
Progressive music has a fervent, enduring following – beyond musicianship and into a kinship of sorts between the musicians who create and produce songs and albums into the listeners that take it in, Read more […]
Taking the “less is more” approach this month, almost all of the selections are of the EP variety or shorter. They all also have a pretty low “buy it” price, allowing you to maximize those hard-earned Read more […]
Possibly one of the biggest breakthroughs for the current power metal scene is Swedish act Sabaton. Combining a love of military battles from world history and a peppy, infectious musical style that contains Read more […]
Who would have ever imagined that a lot of this scribe’s favorite metal bands in childhood would still be around creating new records 30-35 years down the line? Realizing now that metal doesn’t have Read more […]
After the exodus from Sonic Syndicate, The Unguided has become a pretty stable rock in the melodic death/modern metal community. They’ve got consistent artwork, a continual lyrical approach, and they Read more […]
Primarily known for holding down the bass position for extended periods of time in Anathema and Cradle of Filth (talk about your polar opposites), Dave Pybus also had the good fortune of playing an integral Read more […]
Savage, alongside Satan and Saxon, are part of a handful of NWOBHM torchbearers who have managed to elude the ravages of age. Saxon’s dependability are well-known; Satan are getting rave reviews across Read more […]
While Ordinance’s debut, Internal Monologues, may have been below the radar for many people, it was a piece of technical/progressive death metal that resonated with those who heard it. The members involved: Read more […]
With metal being a truly global entity, it never comes as a surprise anymore to find bands working the trenches in places that one doesn’t associate with metal. But there’s always something continually Read more […]
In the early 1990’s, there was a new sub-genre of metal that took a lot of alternative elements from various groups such as Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and the Smiths and applied heaviness Read more […]
Check out Part I HERE. Dead Rhetoric: You’ve come up with some interesting cover songs by Emperor, Candlemass, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and on this album, The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin”. Read more […]
Humans are resilient beings – capable of great capacity for withstanding sadness, stress, and struggle to fight back stronger and overcome challenges faced for us. Drummer Dobber Beverly of Houston, Read more […]
As the month of February rapidly zips by us, it’s time to get in another month’s Rapid Fire column. As we eagerly await what the warmer weather will bring (aside of a number of already announced great Read more […]
You never know when you are going to find that next killer act. On a spontaneous trip to catch Amaranthe on their last tour in the fall, this scribe ended up in Cleveland, Ohio, where Olathia was one of Read more […]
You can read Part I of our interview with Steffen Kummerer HERE. Dead Rhetoric: Obscura has gone through a lot of line-up changes – most recently with Hannes [Grossmann] and Christian [Munzner]. Read more […]
When it comes to the most interesting death metal out there, Obscura has to be one of the first names that is mentioned here in 2016. Their second album, Cosmogenesis, is what really burst them onto the Read more […]
When it comes to power metal, Germany tends to be one of the countries that always has a hankering for the speed riff, the twin guitar harmonies, the mead hall sing-a-long chorus, and thunderous double Read more […]
