Imagine the surprise of the mid-40s ‘banger wearing his Countdown to Extinction tour shirt upon seeing this short snippet compilation of Marty Friedman’s various works in his adopted home country of Read more […]
Initial plans to do a phone interview with Devil You Know’s Howard Jones were thwarted when other obligations forced the vocalist to cancel, so with the kind assistance of the Nuclear Blast publicity staff, Read more […]
A bi-monthly event our Demo Tribunal has become (calling it an “event” might be a tad pretentious), which means rifling through the various submissions the site gets can be a difficult task. However, between Read more […]
Fifteen albums made the cut for the April installment of Rapid Fires, with the usual array of styles and names to demonstrate just how varied our nice little scene is. Dead by April’s absolute bomb of Read more […]
Formation: 2011 Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts Style: American power metal of an older variety; melodic with nuances of late 80’s/ early 90’s influences. Personnel: Justin St. Pierre (vocals) Read more […]
The laid-back drawl of Kyng guitarist/vocalist Eddie Veliz is total Southern California. One would mistake the gentleman for a surfer if not for promotional shots that spoke otherwise, so the utter casualness Read more […]
“The current focus for almost everyone it seems, is rehashing and reliving past glories simply to boost finances or ego through the seemingly endless reunions or classic album tours. Not only is it sad Read more […]
Formation: 2008 Location: Philadelphia, PA Style: Furious death metal with depth and a slight old-school vibe. Personnel: Max Svalgard (guitars, vocals); John McCarthy (bass, backing vocals); Danny Read more […]
With Black Crown Initiate shaking the walls from the other side, Behemoth’s Zbigniew Robert “Inferno” Prominski and I sat down for a before-show interview at the Metal Alliance show in San Francisco, Read more […]
Formation: 1994 Location: Paris, France Style: Apocalyptic, cinematic post-metal Personnel: Marc T. (vocals, guitars programming); Alain B. (drums); Christophe D. (samples); Stephane L. (guitars) Latest Read more […]
The second part of Bridget Erickson’s in-depth interview with Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust, topics ranged from the man’s near-fatal car accident, to the band’s lyrics, and, Satan, of course. Read on… Dead Read more […]
Dead Rhetoric caught up with extreme metal vocalist Ben Falgoust of Goatwhore at the Metal Alliance show in San Francisco, California! Without a doubt, Falgoust is one of the most intuitive and knowledgeable Read more […]
A beer in Finland has been named after Impaled Nazarene; “Goat Brew” they call it. Only available in Finland due to issues of the bureaucratic variety (read: no other country is willing to import beer Read more […]
Back to unearth more buried treasure from the vast landscapes of Bandcamp, April’s edition sees us going pretty heavy on the death and black metal spectrum. With one notable exception (Ashencult), this Read more […]
Strange, but the guitar position in Napalm Death is one of the band’s more underrated facets. Attention is usually diverted the prose of Barney Greenway, or the hair of Shane Embury, or faster-than-fast Read more […]
You could forgive Winter of Sin guitarist/founding member Ricardo Gelok for becoming mildly annoyed with insinuations that his outfit is the “Henri Sattler from God Dethroned’s new band.” After all, Read more […]
The name Kari Rueslåtten might not ring a bell for some, or even many, but, her influence and impact on the now very-prevalent symphonic and Gothic metal styles cannot be understated. Her mid-90s work Read more […]
Quick on the draw and quick on the snappy barbs towards his Norwegian counterparts, Sargeist mainman Shatraug (also of Behexen and Horna, among a half-dozen other bands) makes a salient point in our below Read more […]
Formation: 2009 Location: Bluefield, West Virginia Style: American black metal. shuttled through the bristling scope of Norwegian black metal, on a 100% true level. Personnel: Famine (vocals/guitars); Read more […]
Nothing like some good ‘ole dot-connecting to fire up the neurons. Australian label Truth Inc. Records was a name made privy to this scribe during our time as Blistering.com, for our Down Under-based Read more […]
Fifteen bands up for discussion in this month’s Rapid Fires, which per the usual, traverses the good, the bad, and the mediocre somewhere in between. More importantly, what’s up with that Kirk cover? Creepy Read more […]
Triumphant are an extremely devoted metal group from Innsbruck, Austria, a city where apparently, there are not many diehard metallers at all. Regardless of somewhat not fitting in with the norm of their Read more […]
Playing a type of non-ruffled shirt, devoid-of-drawbridge epic metal, England’s Dark Forest should make those fond of climatic twin guitar harmony duals quite happy on their third album, The Awakening. Read more […]
As with most albums of significant value, there’s usually the “a-ha” moment, the pivotal point during the course of a listening session where interest in a band becomes belief, then turns into total Read more […]
Formation: 2013 Location: Philadelphia, PA Style: Epic doom metal of the non-filtered, and non-sludge variety Personnel: Steve Jansson (guitar); James Lipczynski (guitar); Will Mellor (bass); Brooks Read more […]
As a writer, the sheer volume of music that appears on my desktop can be daunting at times. However, that feeling is completely overshadowed by your first trip through the overwhelming amount of material Read more […]
With over ten years of experience in dolling out folk metal that has embraced a sense of fun often lacking in metal acts, the upcoming Kaptein Kaos sees the merry band of Trolls stepping up their game Read more […]
Carcass guitarist Bill Steer just seems like a cool dude, you know? Lanky (join the club), relaxed, hair a mile-long, and armed with an endless cadre of distinguishable riffs, Steer’s stamp on the band’s Read more […]
Formation: 2010 Location: Brattleboro, Vermont Style: Progressive metal with the flair of The Mars Volta, volatility of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and melodic spaciousness of Opeth Personnel: Sascha Read more […]
Aptly described by our own Daniel Keating as “somewhere in the realm of progressive death metal institutions Atheist and Edge of Sanity,” Sweden’s Morbus Chron are in the rare position of being able Read more […]