Of all places on the face of the earth to cull that no-nonsense and scorching brand of rock music – Paris, France is the place I am referring to – the Sticky Boys are a genuine rock ‘n roll band Read more […]
Blistering has always wondered if New York death metal bands have some type of complex in regard to their second-billing behind the Floridian bands. You can’t really fault these folks for it – the Read more […]
Back when yours truly used to work at a grocery store in high school, the registered total of $6.66 would strike fear into the hearts of the elderly. On at least half-dozen occasions, a harmless, sweet, Read more […]
2010 and Diamond Eyes saw Deftones re-enter the popular consciousness in a big way and in somewhat cliché fashion, produce what was unequivocally their best work since White Pony. Two years on and Read more […]
A local band done good – it is definitely a nice claim to be able to make. Especially being from a city such as Pittsburgh, where the local metal scene is a bigger laughing stock than Pauly Shore’s Read more […]
Fragments of Unbecoming have unfortunately flown well under the radar in their decade-long career. From the band’s first EP in 2002, they’ve boasted a hard hitting and edgy style of melodic death metal Read more […]
I keep saying this over and over, but the power metal scene is truly oversaturated. This year alone, there has been a plethora of bands releasing material and on the SPV label, the trademark sound continues Read more […]
Love it or hate it, the world of djent has been around long enough and populated by enough bands to reach a point where it takes on a myriad of peculiar and exotic new forms. In the last year alone, there Read more […]
The last of the totally primal Death albums, Spiritual Healing came to find Chuck Schuldiner in a state of transition, still grappling with the bludgeoning sounds of Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy, Read more […]
Mention the term “one-man black metal band” and right away, images of a dude in his studio apartment with a Tascam 4-track recorder, crappy amp, crappier guitar, and demented thought process comes Read more […]
Death metal regurgitates itself moreso than any other style in metal, which in a way, is understandable. There’s only so much leverage bands have when it comes to developing their style, but the lack Read more […]
Amen, Hellbastard. Sons of Bitches is dedicated to “those who are currently outraged by the sheer patheticness humanity throws around on a daily basis.” File Blistering in that department and probably Read more […]
A band that makes it almost too easy us on perpetually lazy metal scribes, Sweden gore-grinders General Surgery have returned with an EP in the form of Like An Ever Flying Limb. Clearly a take on Dismember’s Read more […]
Owner of one of the best names in power metal, along with a killer set of pipes, Swedish vocalist Urban Breed has been a musical nomad since his departure from Tad Morose in 2005. Breed has done time in Read more […]
Form in the 80’s. Release a few albums. Break up in the 90’s. Reunite ten years (or more) later. Sounds like a familiar formula, eh? Metal doesn’t shy away from the reunion bug; in fact, it embraces it Read more […]
About as bonafide of a death metal “vocalist” as we have, Bjorn Gooses announced his departure from German melodic death metallers Night in Gales to focus on the band in question, The Very End. It was Read more […]
Initially, Bonded by Blood did themselves zero favors by naming themselves after Exodus’s seminal debut. At least it took all of the guess-work out of what kind of band they are. When they were mucking Read more […]
After 12 years, six records and numerous world tours Roberto Messina decided to leave Italian power metal outfit Secret Sphere due to musical differences. This could have been a major blow to the band, Read more […]
We’re unsure of when the American black metal scene will be taken as seriously as the Scandinavian incarnation, but that time could be rapidly approaching if more bands like Imperial Triumphant come Read more […]
The left-turn The Faceless made on their new album rocked the technical death metal world. Such a lazy pun is necessary here, only because of the divide it has created, spawning tension between those who Read more […]
Simply stating “Vol.1” for anything gives off an inflated sense of ego. Cue dumb band-dude voice: “This is our first best-of collection, ‘Vol.1,’ ‘Vol.2’ should be on its way in a few years.” Sure it Read more […]
Lost in the melodic death metal onslaught that came and went in the early 00’s was Nonexist’s 2002 Dues Deceptor. The product of Andromeda guitarist Johan Reinholdz, then recently-exiled Arch Enemy Read more […]
The second funeral doom band on Profound Lore to put an album out of importance in 2012 (the first being Pallbearer), Seattle’s Bell Witch are cut from nearly the same cloth, albeit with some minor tweaks Read more […]
When an album kicks things off with a track entitled “Dr. Phuck”, one can begin to assume a few things about what’s about to come roaring out of the speakers, and none of those several assumptions Read more […]
The Cavalera apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, you know? And rightfully so – if your father/stepfather was a veritable metal legend, you’d probably follow suit…or at least give it the old college Read more […]
Pumping in crowd noise was rumored to be a tactic the Indianapolis Colts employed throughout the 00’s, giving them an advantage at the now tenant-less Hoosier/RCA Dome. As legend has it, the team would Read more […]
Indeed the question mark in the rating is intentional. Rare when Blistering stumbles upon an album that eludes a proper score out of 10, but such is the case for De Magia Veterum, who happen to be the Read more […]
Hats off to the Monsterworks lads for broad-siding the current album versus singles conundrum that infests all corners of the music business. Rather than pimping an entire full-length to the masses, the Read more […]
Putting a question mark after a word does wonders for voice inflection. Case in point, when Blistering’s dog Goji wants to go for a walk, simply saying “Walk?” instantly sends him into a frenzy. Read more […]
The sound of a car rolling to a stop, footsteps, followed by knock on the door, then…“guten tag!” HELLO! It’s Varg at your door: This is how Varg’s fourth album, Guten Tag begins, Read more […]
