‘Tis been a very nice year for the Darkthrone duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto. The year would have already been complete if they had just put out The Underground Resistance and nothing more, but here Read more […]
After a slew of solid releases over nearly a decade, Weekend Nachos have definitely made a name for themselves in that they are either loved or hated. Still isn’t going to change that, but if you dismiss Read more […]
Leaving one of the premiere power/progressive metal outfits in Brazil Angra last year after a successful 12 year run, vocalist Edu Falaschi can now devote the lion’s share of his creativity to Almah. Read more […]
Despite various lineup changes over the years and a shift toward more black metal stylization (as opposed to the death metal leanings of their earlier work), Necrophobic have managed to carve out a pretty Read more […]
Originally released in 1998, Deprecated’s Deriding His Creation is experiencing a brand new lease on life. Already a cult brutal death metal classic in it’s own right, 2013 sees the album given a Read more […]
Perhaps thought of by some as America’s answer to Immortal, Inquisition has been steadily gaining prominence on the global stage of black metal since the release of their debut back in 1998. In those Read more […]
Lovely Liv Kristine and long, long-haired Alexander Krull make for a fine pair, the equivalent of Euro metal’s “Beauty and the Beast,” dare we get all poetic and ripe for comparison. You’d think Read more […]
Stepping into the Portals of Canaan, Deeds of Flesh show a metamorphosis of their work. Although Erik Lindmark is the only original member, the band has relatively maintained their sound and continues Read more […]
When examining Norwegian progressive metal as a whole, Ihsahn could be viewed as the scene’s designated ringleader/spiritual guide (surely he’d love being called that…not), with a growing, healthy Read more […]
Despite their 20+ year existence, The Blueprint for Blood Spatter is only Mortal Decay’s fourth full length, and their first since 2005’s Cadaver Art. With Malignancy’s vocalist Danny Nelson in Read more […]
With Candlemass now officially retired from the studio and simply a live act (who wants to bet we’ll see a new album from them in light of this?), founding member/bassist/primary songwriter Leif Edling Read more […]
A trait of a good album, to me, can lie in its ability to create a potent mood or to virtually change the landscape surrounding the listener – the music being the ignition to stoke the listener’s uniquely Read more […]
Recovering your fledgling fanbase can be tough in today’s overcrowded metal scene. Check out the new release bin from week to week and expect 20 times the number of albums hitting the racks or digital Read more […]
Even deeper we go into what now constitutes as second-tier post-metal, essentially the bands left to sort through the rummage now that Isis is gone, Cult of Luna are experimental, and Neurosis may have Read more […]
The initial death grovel spewed by Warmaster vocalist Corné Bijlemeer on “Nuclear Warfare” warranted a quick double-take, as in, has Chris Barnes jumped on yet another band’s album to lend his Read more […]
Though an overused and poorly understood idea concerning living, the concept of ‘the simple things in life are the best’ is one apt when applied to certain kinds of music. Case in point: Red Fang. Read more […]
Looking at the band logo (ooh, the a’s are replaced by 6’s and the t’s are upside-down crosses) as well as the album title, the bad jokes seemed to be writing themselves. With some song titles Read more […]
Despite their on-again, off-again presence throughout the years, Pyrexia was never really able to achieve the level of success as their NYDM peers Suffocation and Immolation. Enter Feast of Inequity, Read more […]
Since their previous release, Black Devotion, Czech black metallers Inferno have rekindled their music to a groundbreaking degree. With raw intonations, fast tempos, and a hint of harmonic instrumentals Read more […]
The mercurial oddball on the European groove metal facade, France’s Dagoba have done some label-hopping of late, going from their home country’s Season of Mist, to XIII Bis, and now over to eOne for the Read more […]
Another year passes and we find ourselves in the midst of a surprising new Ihsahn release. Eremita was a staggering and well-loved release for me last year so I found myself thrilled with the prospect Read more […]
The glory and partial genius that was Tad Morose’s 2003 album Modus Vivendi was sidetracked by the dreaded ‘ole singer switch, which as an unfortunate consequence, is probably the most important position Read more […]
Sometimes things just defy description. Sometimes the sum of the parts comes to equal a strange, beguiling whole. Such is the case with British trio Anacondas’ debut Sub Contra Blues for Prosthetic. Read more […]
Always a dangerous proposition when a primary member of a bigger band throws themselves at a side-project, for the results are usually all over the map. For Slipknot’s centerpiece drummer Joey Jordison Read more […]
Death metal – regardless of origin – seems to be plunging further into the abyss of late. It’s no longer useful to simply sound raw and mildly retrograde, you have to sound like you tossed your amplifiers Read more […]
Devin told us that a show of this magnitude wouldn’t be possible in Des Moines, IA, making the well-infiltrated England the place to put on his career-spanning Retinal Circus show. Typical of Townsend, Read more […]
Norway and death metal aren’t exactly synonymous but Obliteration is doing their best to change that. Hailing from the same town that brought us Darkthrone, Obliteration pass themselves off as equally Read more […]
As an extreme metal band pandering to any side of the ‘core fence, you gotta be prepared to take some lumps and/or shots. One would best be advised to don the proverbial protective gear during your fledgling Read more […]
Not willing to rest on their laurels with releasing their full-length debut Putrid Death Sorcery in 2013, Necrowretch has quickly risen from their grave to grace us with Bestial Rites, a compilation of Read more […]
Now here’s a title you won’t forget: Fucktropolis. The F-word in its many instances sure has a way of being convincing, if not simply eye-catching, which is exactly the case as the title for this Edmonton, Read more […]
