The name sure had us fooled – “Tankrust” is not the timely mash-up of Tankard and classic French rockers Trust, the band best known for providing the original version of “Anti-Social,” a song Read more […]
With the band’s geography being a bit of a talking point (it’s not every day that you find a heavy metal band from Pakistan), let’s toss that all aside and just take a look at what these guys have Read more […]
A London, Ontario outfit who has been buggering around the neo-prog scene for seven years now, Matter in the Medium serve as a reminder that if you’re not holding onto to the djent caboose for dear life, Read more […]
Melodic death/thrash, particularly from the North American standpoint, is one that is hard to break free of the mold. Most bands seem to follow the same basic pathway – equal parts Scandinavian worship Read more […]
Forming five years ago as the cover band Silent Screams, Puerto Rico thrash quartet Calamity changed names and decided to tread on original paths – unleashing a 6 song EP last summer prior to issuing Read more […]
Based in Chicago, but featuring a multinational mix of members, Against the Plagues have been working on their sophomore effort for several years now (since 2012 in fact). The combination of black and Read more […]
As winter finally begins to fall upon us, the need for some frost-bitten, cold black metal becomes more and more apparent. There’s just something more appropriate about looking out the window and watching Read more […]
Polish for “cult of graves,” Kult Mogil in a span of a year, have already produced a demo and the album in question, their full-length Anxiety Never Descending debut. Accompanied by the band’s comment Read more […]
Perhaps wisely keeping djent bands off the Nuclear Blast roster (unless you want to consider Meshuggah, who are the unintentional creators of the style), label founder/owner Markus Steiger has created Read more […]
Post-hardcore that flails around like this could be called “panicky,” or “urgent.” There’s a concerted sense of desperation to what French trio Birds in Row are doing, like, “There’s X amount Read more […]
It’s always exciting to find a band that describes themselves as something different and can actually follow through with that claim (unlike a slurry of press sheets we go through at DR where everyone Read more […]
Often the subject of many influence lines and “sounds like” areas for much of the current crop of death metal bands trying to imitate that putrid and rotten sound that made them famous, Autopsy really Read more […]
A big ‘ole slog would be Lament Cityscape’s The Torn debut. Comprised of the Oakland, CA duo that is Mike McClatchey and Sean McCullough, the pair’s hunkered, stuck-in-the-mud apocalyptic doom sludge Read more […]
Some albums make it seem like time travel is indeed possible. For all of those old school death metal albums flooding the market, some can take you back to the early ‘90s. In the case of Undawn, the Read more […]
In this day and age, it’s become harder and harder for a band to simply come out of nowhere and floor you with an incredible album. Yet that’s exactly what Russia’s Sunless Rise has done with their Read more […]
It’s not often that you find a band that really sets themselves apart from the rest so soon in their career. One listen to Ashen Horde and it’s clear that the one-man band has channeled influences Read more […]
Funeral doom is a genre that many avoid like the plague. Admittedly, it does take a certain mindset to look past the plodding pace and sometimes excruciating lengths that these bands utilize for each Read more […]
Not the first Draconian side-project to be released by Napalm (that would be Shadowgarden), Mammoth Storm feature Draconian guitarist Daniel Arvidsson in its ranks, showing that perhaps the Austrian label Read more […]
The long-term, seemingly endless pining for death metal days of yore is reflected equally in the bands who have kept it “true,” and the ones who are just learning how to do so. While there’s no official Read more […]
Reverence’s 2012 When Darkness Calls was one of those entirely rare finds in the veteran power/melodic metal field. Generally, such coming-togethers of gents who have spent time in high (or low) profile Read more […]
Fortunately choosing to not judge an act on name alone (the English major in me hit the stun pose at the nonsensical Decease… archaic versus the proper Deceased), this Greek quintet started in 2007, Read more […]
What happens when you put together a bunch of death metal musicians in a new group? Well, the most logical conclusion is that they make some death metal! Firespawn is the latest of that dreaded “s” Read more […]
Despite the globalization of the world, some countries still get the same old stereotypes. Think of Sweden and you think of (melodic) death metal, and when it comes to Poland, one tends to associate with Read more […]
New York’s Krallice seem to be a polarizing band, for reasons which are no doubt silly, and won’t be investigated here. What can be said is that Krallice has certainly made a name for themselves, extending Read more […]
Always thought these guys could eventually be within an earshot of Dissection, heck, eve Naglfar. Secrets of the Moon career up until this point, has been marked by successively harmonious displays of Read more […]
Take out the cello and what do you get with Anopheli’s The Ache of Want? A regular ‘ole d-beat sludge core album? Yeah, probably. There’s not much of a point in beating ‘round the bush here, as Read more […]
Black metal of the savage variety, as so well done and/or executed and/or played to the brink by the likes of Dark Funeral, Marduk, and early Watain, has always tried to compensate a lack of atmosphere Read more […]
“From the deep woods of Siberia” would have been a fantastic album title; rather, even better for a live album. It’s unlikely Grima – a two-man ensemble – play live at this early juncture in Read more […]
Suspended in perpetual recuperation, prepare for the onslaught Greek thrashers Endless Recovery beget on their second full length Revel in Demise. A fairly active quintet since their start earlier this Read more […]
Really easy marketing opportunity for Vic Records: “Winter is coming.” Given Game of Thrones’ massive popularity, seemingly anything with the word “winter” in the tagline has a way of working Read more […]