The question sometimes arises, how do you follow-up a double-album release? Well, in the case of Schammasch you dig even deeper and come back with a triple-album. The aptly named Triangle is no mere Read more […]
Never thought in today’s scene you’d hear (and see) a US true, occult oriented metal band from Louisville, KY – more known for baseball bats and the Kentucky Derby than anything else supremely heavy. Read more […]
Five years in Denver, Colorado’s Arise in Chaos get scooped up by Megadeth’s David Ellefson for his new label EMP to release their second full-length Terminal Cognition. Gaining seasoning on the local Read more […]
Terrorism, religious wars, government corruption, economic strife – fuel for any metal musician’s frustration to channel into solid topics, themes that thrash mainstays Destruction explore often on Read more […]
Successfully bridging the gaps between symphonic, melodic death, and progressive metal is no easy feat. But that hasn’t stopped Canada’s Monolith from delivering their third slab of the precisely Read more […]
One has to tip the hat to Lavadome Productions as of late. They’ve been knocking it out of the park in signing nothing but the highest caliber death metal offerings (see Zealotry, Apparatus, and Ad Read more […]
Folk metal tends to divide the metal community, at least when it’s of the more zestful variety. The Dread Crew of Oddwood fall firmly into the category of bands like Alestorm and Trollfest – plenty Read more […]
Picking names for metal bands can be a challenge for sure – yet the Italy/Germany/US act Savior From Anger takes on a Vicious Rumors song off their killer Welcome to the Ball record, so there’s already Read more […]
When metal bands push the envelope past the normal accepted genre boundaries, the results can be a wild card. Some times you’re left with brilliant glimpses of something never heard before, like Ved Read more […]
Fortunate to take in a lot of melodic, power, and progressive metal during the 1980’s and 1990’s through worldwide tape trading, this scribe discovered a potent scene in Greece at a time period when Read more […]
Cthulhu and the Cthonian cult are a bit over used in today’s heavy music vernacular. I think the desired effect of the word is to evoke images of other worldly Lovecraftian nightmares and half fish people Read more […]
If you name your band after a series of wars in the 1st century B.C. you better be ready to bring some pretty ferocious stuff. French metallers Mithridatic do just that, and with a churning, almost sickening Read more […]
This Swedish band has morphed from more of a melodic/sleaze-oriented hard rock group during their early Bring the Thunder and Knock You Down albums (think The Poodles meets Skid Row) to their fourth album Read more […]
For a stretch, Italy’s Glorior Belli were poised to go where no black metal band had gone before: Southern swamps. “Southern swamps” as in the ones we have here in the US-of-A. For a group that had Read more […]
Originally named Blaak Heat Shujaa, Parisian psychedelic rockers Blaak Heat (it doesn’t sound as cool with the shortened name, guys), made the risky decision to move their operations from Paris to New Read more […]
Given the rising popularity of this German power metal group, the band and label erect a massive box set to showcase their historical elevation from folk-oriented roots to their current heavier stance. Read more […]
Another case of stumbling upon something through Bandcamp, the Las Vegas atmospheric deathcore crew of Man Made God got a closer look due to that killer artwork that adorns its cover. Those already cringing Read more […]
Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Depicting Abysm employ the tag of “depressive, atmospheric black metal.” The band (comprised of two gents under the simple names of A. and K.), have been functional Read more […]
This German power/heavy metal band initially gained attention as one of the outlets for guitarist Gus G’s ubiquitous abilities (remember when he had Dream Evil, Nightrage, and Firewind all going too?), Read more […]
If there was a non-rage soundtrack for art school chicks wearing fishnet stockings who fancy chain-smoking, then Sinistro might be it. Slotted comfortably on Season of Mist’s ever-expanding roster (DR Read more […]
Brazil’s melodic death metal bunch D.A.M. have been a productive group. Within 2013 and 2014 they managed to put out 2 EPs and 2 full-length albums. Taking a moment to catch their breath, Premonitions Read more […]
One death metal band that has slugged it out over the years is Massachusetts’ Abnormality. Some may remember them as “that death metal band” on Rock Band 2 or from their previous EP and full-length Read more […]
After a prolonged absence from his vocal seat, original singer Pasi Rantanen felt a yearning to return to the Thunderstone fold six years beyond his last appearance in 2007. In the interim, journeyman Read more […]
Lots ‘o excitement when the “new wave” of UK black metal hit about five (or so) years ago. These bands (see: Fen, Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone, et al) had zero interest in maintaining an image; rather, Read more […]
Avant-garde gets tossed around quite frequently with bands that play outside of the box. In the case of Quebec’s Solinaris, it’s an apt assessment. For describing the band as merely technical or Read more […]
Dense and angular death metal being one of the buzzwords of the day in death metal, there’s quickly becoming no shortage of bands that bring the genre into dark, twisted, and sinister vibes. Zealotry Read more […]
Still waiting for a proper follow-up to 2012’s quite underrated Mass V, Belgium doom/sludge maestros Amenra have made the bold, but not totally unexpected leap into acoustic territory with Alive. This Read more […]
It’s been six years since Sig:Ar:Tyr’s last release, Godsaga, was washed upon the shores. Continuing their Viking metal approach, full of influences from Bathory, Immortal, and Falkenbach, Sig:Ar:Tyr Read more […]
After two full-length albums for Metal Blade and a self-released EP, Sweden’s This Ending finds themselves sitting at Apostasy Records for album number three. The band, forged from the ashes of A Canorous Read more […]
Al Jourgensen has retired and unretired, and deactivated and reactivated Ministry so many times that it’s hard to take the man seriously. Roughly a decade ago, Ministry still bore some relevance, especially Read more […]
