Oftentimes, it just takes a good cover to get people interested in the music beneath. Looking through some material to review, Grey Heaven Fall came across as particularly striking, so it found its way Read more […]
Curious to see what happens to Avatarium now that Candlemass is quasi out of recording retirement by way of their recent announcement of an EP to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Mr. Leif Edling, who Read more […]
Death metal has progressed (or regressed) to the point where nearly every moment found on a certain record can be traced back to its originator. It’s a difficult angle in which to work; there are quite Read more […]
Torchbearers for the newer generation of heavy/speed metal, Enforcer in little over a decade has ascended to headlining status across the globe. After a series of successful studio recordings, its prime Read more […]
Originally self-released in February of 2014, Assiégé has been formally released by Aeternitas Tenebrarum in October of 2015. If the label is trying to bank on keeping band information shrouded in secrecy, Read more […]
Efforts persist to revive “pure” melodic death metal. And by “pure,” we mean the style’s Gothenburg glory days, which is in the range from 1992 (or so) until the end of that decade. Pop music Read more […]
Aftermath’s Killing the Future was originally released as a demo on cassette in 1987, but leave it up to the fine folks (er “folk,” which would be Matt Rudzinski) at Divebomb to dig up yet another Read more […]
The man who lives, breathes, eats, sleeps death metal is back once more (though he doesn’t ever really leave with all of his varied output). Of course, we are speaking of the one and only Rogga Johansson. Read more […]
Spanning 24 years and now 10 studio albums, any act is bound to let ‘underlying issues’ subside for the sake of longevity – such is the case for Italy’s Eldritch. A survivor of the power/progressive Read more […]
Sometimes there are gripes about how far the technical aspect of death metal has come, and something has been lost in terms of its “soul.” Admittedly, the reach to technically wow the audience with Read more […]
Buried somewhere in the rubble and glut of Viking metal bands over the last decade (or so) is France’s Himinbjorg. Introduced to this scribe all the way back in 2003 (back when physical promos where Read more […]
Eleven different entries from across the globe pop up when entering Rapture in the old Metal Archives search engine – guess this bodes well for name differentiation doesn’t it? Hailing from Athens, Read more […]
Talk about a mouthful! Mastication of Brutality Uncontrolled (from this point forward referred to as MOBU) doesn’t exactly roll off the top of one’s tongue. Perhaps that’s a glimpse into the future Read more […]
It’s been 5 years since Solution .45’s debut, For Aeons Past, stormed into existence. It was the album that many were waiting for with Christian Älvestam returning to more Scar Symmetry-esque clean/harsh Read more […]
Black metal – seemingly one of the most flexible metal genres (who would have thought that 20 years ago), has given birth to many different sounds. But rare is the band that can take a more traditional Read more […]
Already on the board for 2015 with their excellent Extinction Necromance EP, British Columbia extreme tech death up-and-comers XUL have found it within their kind hearts to reissue their first album, 2008’s Read more […]
Arising in 2013, Cincinnati Ohio’s War Curse normally would be seen as hopping on a bandwagon given their thrash orientation during this current renaissance of the style. Dig deeper into the membership Read more […]
Get a look at that logo…or not. Hold the page/screen/phone sideways and see if you can make it out – hard to do, eh? But it’s all a part of the broad scope of visuals that make up Mirror, the band Read more […]
A cloak and dagger’ed bunch from Scotland, Lunar Mantra originally released Genesis as an unsigned act before Invictus stepped in and gave the thing a proper release. And for good reason: This is yet another Read more […]
Fortune to witness this western MA quartet a few times in various New England venues (including a hilarious night in NH opening for Night Demon where a cardboard cutout stood in for a missing bassist Peydon Read more […]
Italy’s Sadist has been towing the metal line for many years at this point. The band had three very solid death metal releases during the ‘90s (this scribe’s first encounter was with 1997’s excellent Read more […]
Because they were both spawned from the same rabid, groundbreaking, and downright dirty UK punk/extreme metal scene, Extreme Noise Terror and Napalm Death have often been a regular comparison point for Read more […]
Circa 2008, Black Tide were a much-ballyhooed act. As a bunch of pre-teens, the band had already scored a major label record deal, a spot on the inaugural Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem festival, and some Read more […]
The somewhat unheralded Raventale are a Ukraine band that maybe don’t get the love that the other more well-known black metal acts from that country do. And that chaps my hide. Steadily releasing albums Read more […]
2015 continues to push out some strong melodic death metal at the tail-end of the year. This time, we have Canada’s Silent Line, who deliver their third independent offering (though admittedly the first Read more […]
Great opening line in Horisont’s bio for Odyssey: “Big of mustache and tight of trouser.” Normally, us metal press folks are greeted with endless lines of hyperbole in relation to the music we’re Read more […]
The female duo aspect of NYX will no doubt be the angle everyone will try to exploit when it comes to the pair’s Home debut. Even with the quasi-breakout success of Mykur, the idea of females taking Read more […]
Born of Osiris are in a tricky spot with their fifth and latest release, Soul Sphere. Being one of the pillars that the affectionately/loathingly dubbed “Sumeriancore” sound was built upon, they’ve Read more […]
Sufficient evidence would indicate a band now past its 35th year of existence (Killing Joke formed in 1978) shouldn’t sound this vital and/or pulsating. We’re getting a lot of old-timers in the twilight Read more […]
Blue-collar tech death? Seems weird to say, but Arkaik have been laying down their no-frills, meat & potatoes version of technical death metal for three albums prior to Lucid Dawn without nearly as much Read more […]
