Toss some Dismember, Autopsy, Celtic Frost, and add just a smidge of older Hypocrisy together in a blender and you’ll be saying TGI-Slaughterday! Slaughterday’s debut, Nightmare Vortex states that Read more […]
Italian black metal band Handful of Hate has been in existence since 1993, released its first album in 1997, and has since released five subsequent albums. This most current album, To Perdition, sees Read more […]
Sabbath, unfortunately, is crawling to the finish line, broken down, splintered, and with a new album that hasn’t floated too well with the real metal hard-asses. Their 2013 round of touring has been Read more […]
Despite the awkward and slightly goofy name, Immortal Bird’s debut is anything but. Started by Rae Amitay (Thrawsunblat) as a way to get out from behind the drum kit, she’s joined by Evan Berry (of Read more […]
As the story goes, the early 90’s Stockholm bands (Nihilist, Dismember, Unleashed, et al) would get together on a Saturday, head down the local subway, set up camp, drink, and blast metal all through Read more […]
Thrash bands always use the most literal interpretations for their album covers. As in, if someone is getting killed, mauled, or in this case, “eradicated,” it will show up on the cover. Maybe it dovetails Read more […]
After an absence of nearly a decade, blackQueen return from a long hiatus with their third release, March of the Obsidian Triumvirate. Founded in San Francisco during the late 90’s, blackQueen released Read more […]
To the hardened metal fan, Christmas music has never mixed well with our abrasive form of music. There have been some attempts, but they mostly fall into the ‘listen to it once’ and chuckle at the Read more […]
Though running a bit behind on this one, the impact is no less enormous. Though clipping off (for the better) half of the band name and refining their sound since their last release, So Hideous has produced Read more […]
As winter approaches and most of the upper hemisphere is wrapped in the frigid embrace of the end-year (though admittedly here in Central California it’s still quite mild), the mood shifts to a want Read more […]
Is it wrong to say that “electronicacore” is more interesting than plain old deathcore? Are we going to start pining for metal-on-electronic unions like in 1997 when all sorts of bands hooked up for Read more […]
This is a prime example of how some feel there are no ideas to left in death metal. The apparent supergroup of former Benediction/Bolt Thrower vocalist Dave Ingram and ubiquitous Rogga Johansson (no use Read more […]
At this point, Nightwish would enjoy nothing more than some stability and normalcy. Come to think of if, when was the last time things were easy-breezy in their camp? Around 2002 for Century Child maybe? Read more […]
The Ruins of Beverast is the music of multi-instrumentalist Alexander Von Meilenwald, ex-Nagelfar drummer, and prophet of the blackest doom. Here he assumes the role of the infamous Inquisitor of the Read more […]
Since forming in 2007, Lake of Blood made great progress on developing their robust and transcendent sounds. “He Who Becomes” and “In Wells of Shadow” were previously released as an EP titled The Read more […]
The life of a neo-classical power metal guitarist can be a tenuous one. Too much excessive technical display and you could only gain appeal with the musically inclined, Berklee college masses – too little Read more […]
Mortician’s Chainsaw Dismemberment originally saw the light of day back in 1999 but Hell’s Headbangers recently saw fit to re-issue it as a 2LP with a gatefold cover. Mortician has always been a Read more […]
Tuomas Saukkonen is one busy guy, and the metal world is a better place for it. This prolific multi-instrumentalist, songwriter-composer and all-out metal bad-ass has been kicking out the jams since Read more […]
Metal cannot get much more naturally raw, radical, and intense to the root than this. Though they rather not classify themselves within any particular subgenre, Wolves in the Throne Room identifies with Read more […]
Just look at these cagey veteran bands work it…it’s like, why ever retire? As long as these lads are still functional (read: able to stand), why would they give it up? Since they’re able to defy Read more […]
The perpetual and grinding dark, a persistent terror for many in the world but channeled effortlessly here by French blackened hardcore (insertwhateverhereitisawesome) group Celeste on this, their fourth Read more […]
With many established European melodic death bands going the commercial route, “evolving” their sound into that cliché heavy verse/soft chorus pattern that many have tired of years ago, there have Read more […]
Peel back all of layers from 80’s thrash and somewhere sits Denmark’s Artillery. Mainly a cult quantity here in the States, the band is best known for 1990’s By Inheritance; beyond that, they’re Read more […]
Almost one of those “Do we really need this?” type of albums and/or projects, the Cronian offshoot of Borknagar has made it to album #3 with Erathems. Designed as the vehicle for full-on collaboration Read more […]
While the deathcore subgenre is one littered with copycats and bandwagon jumpers, occasionally there is a diamond within the rough to be discovered. Earlier this year, Fit For An Autopsy’s Hellbound Read more […]
It’s pretty clear that Disfigurement is a big fan of the early ‘90s. First, the quasi-indecipherable band logo, inspired by a term used to inflict bodily pain. Even their band photo looks akin Read more […]
Terminus have put forth a very ambitious record with the release of their self titled debut. Released on the relatively new Mutants of the Monster label run by CR of Rwake, it’s a fitting pairing. Terminus Read more […]
Though they’ve undeniably reached legendary status in the death metal world, Deicide has a spotty track record when it comes to consistent album quality. But since 2006’s The Stench of Redemption saw Read more […]
Germany’s veteran black metallers Endstille return for their eighth full-length album with Kapitulation 2013, a sharp collection of d-beat tinged, Scandinavian-style black metal, fast and pissed off, Read more […]
Atlanta’s Whores. follow up their nearly flawless EP Ruiner., with another great release. Clean. may not top what they did on that EP, but they give it a run for it’s money and quite honestly, it would Read more […]
