You only get one chance to make a reunion impression, and the stakes are high in the case of Accept. 2010’s Blood of the Nations certainly put the current multi-continent act back on the map (three-fifths Read more […]
The title Reality Cleaver admittedly seemed quite brutal so this one mistakenly got tossed into the “get to it when I get to it” category. Interestingly enough, this is Nefandus’ third full-length Read more […]
Just as Sweden has it’s key giveaways when you first listen to a band blindly, so does Poland. Preludium, clearly of the Polish ilk, take on the same militant death/black metal of their peers Behemoth, Read more […]
Halcyon Way’s fourth album, Conquer, has been a long time coming. The last full-length from the band was back in 2010, with 2011’s Indoctrination EP being the only exposure the band has had since Read more […]
Speaking from personal experience, Dragonforce are a band whose reputation definitely preceeds them. Meaning, through all of my wanderings into the lands of power metal, Dragonforce were a band from whom Read more […]
Starting in 1989 as a small festival for 500, this German metal festival has grown over the decades to a 3 day plus affair, featuring hundreds of bands on a variety of stages and sold out to 75,000+ attendees Read more […]
The swansong that you see coming means a certain level of pressure to deliver on a level that you’ll be remembered for. It’s been a very long two years for Blake Judd since the release of the formidable Read more […]
When a band as far into their career as Darkest Hour release a self-titled album, you know there is going to be a purpose behind it. The band’s eighth full-length is bound to split the factions of their Read more […]
The fourth album from Swedish death metal band Those Who Bring the Torture should find itself giving no one any questions about its material. The mere mention of Rogga Johansson should give you a pretty Read more […]
Fortunate to gain appreciation on the ground floor from their self-titled debut album back in 1999 during my Snakepit magazine co-editor days, Sweden’s Wolf has been a long-running traditional metal Read more […]
Very Nuclear Assault, this whole package from Italian thrashers Game Over. Their font certainly is a swipe of NA’s old logo, not to mention their name, which is quite apocalyptic, death and destruction, Read more […]
Talk about a trip down memory lane. Reminiscing of having to go to a store and special order this when it was originally released as a teenager (back before the Internet was such a destination), your Read more […]
Well documented are the trials and tribulations of any Michael Kiske-fronted Helloween reunion coming down the pike these days. Despite any resurrection/reunion craze (and supposedly six figures festival Read more […]
Someone must have really bothered Corrupt Moral Altar something awful, because Mechanical Tides is a pissed-off ball of fury. Combining grindcore, sludge, hardcore, and even some stoner rock, they do Read more […]
Holy technical death metal Batman! This album was quite an unexpected kick in the groin. Fitting in well with some of the strongest that Unique Leader has offered up here in 2014, Fragments of Flagrancy Read more […]
Splits are a great way to cross-pollinate between disparate fanbases or concentrate your efforts on bringing similarities together for something truly staggering (a lot like Windhand/Cough last year or Read more […]
[9/10] When a band faces a potential death penalty for playing the music they play, it’s bound to be something great and worth the risk. Black metal like this is totally worth the risk. No joke, if these Read more […]
Yet another project featuring the considerable and wholly intriguing talents of Australia’s Tim Yatras (also of Germ, Austere, Grey Waters, etc., and is going under the name of “Sorrow”), Autumn’s Read more […]
Last year’s Nightmare Vortex served as a solid, yet familiar introduction to Slaughterday. Their take on old school death metal, mostly of the Swedish variety, by way of Germany held together better Read more […]
Let’s start with the bottom line: we need more bands like this nowadays. Finland’s blackened death cult metallers, Hellspirit, come from the corrupted world of drenching themselves in blood before Read more […]
Savage southern-fried death/grind from former members of Hemdale and Adam Cody of Wretched is what’s in store for listeners of Columns. With song titles like “Mudfucker,” “Punching Nancy Grace,” Read more […]
Greece’s Diablery, a symphonic black metal band formed in 2008, after having released a pair of EP’s, step onto the stage with their full-length debut in Architect. As vast and ever-changing as the umbrella Read more […]
Really thought the absent “L” in Expain’s name was a typo of some kind…but it’s not. The band are fine with the name as is, which means they have some expaining to do for their name, Expain. Read more […]
Talk about being direct! Black Storm of Violence opens with a sample of “Most of all, fuck you,” which for the most part implies the rest of what’s to come. Pissed off and frantic as it comes, Read more […]
Another anti-summer release, this one, and an honest funeral doom record to boot. Hailing from Ukraine, a place no stranger to trauma nowadays, Luna is nevertheless fairly pointed in its direction and Read more […]
This one sat in the queue for a bit, having received an official release in early June. Why it sat around for so long is unbeknownst to DR, but had we been privy to Holy Shire’s whopping eight (!) members Read more […]
While As I Lay Dying remains in a holding pattern following the prison sentence of vocalist Tim Lambesis, the four other members create this new act Wovenwar, grabbing new vocalist Shane Blay whose previous Read more […]
Perhaps a bit overdue to have their catalog reissued, cult U.K. death metallers Cancer are getting such a treatment from Cyclone Empire. If we’re speaking in terms of where the band fell in the 90’s Read more […]
Easily one of the biggest names within the folk metal scene, it was in fact Eluveitie that got this writer more into more folk metal all the way back with Spirit. Needless to say, time gets set aside Read more […]
Ever have one of those moments when you hear part of one song and instantly need to purchase the entire album because it’s so intriguing? Yet another shining victory from scouring Bandcamp on a regular Read more […]
