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May 15th, 2024 Reviews

Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast)

…atchy gothic/rock aspects to encompass a wider array of influences from the 80’s and 90’s next to the savage Swedish meets US-like finesse mainframe. Check out the mid-tempo guitar riff that circulates within “The Black Curtain” where guitarists Eric Wagner and Israel Garza channel their inner Paradise Lost-like affinities circa Icon or Draconian Times, while the follow-up “Masterpiece of Chaos” hits like a savage chainsaw, the deadly growls of Ch…

May 15th, 2024 Reviews

Cognitive – Abhorrence (Metal Blade)

…vory Tower” is less experimental in tone but makes up for it in it’s sheer battering ability. A cut that showcases the frenetic energy of the band at it’s finest, it doesn’t have to perpetually go at 300bpm but instead showcases the group’s ability to bring in pulverizing aggression that doesn’t stick to the usual tempo flavors, even adding in a melodic solo to spice things up on the back end. Also on this side of the divide is “Savor the Sufferin…

May 12th, 2024 Features

Warlord – Appreciation, Communication, Determination

…in the speakers. Always recording and hearing what things sounded like. Probably one of the biggest current ones were playing the first Greek shows. We played Wacken, at 2 am in the morning, and there were still 40,000 people. It was Wacken, and big, but loosey goosey. It wasn’t very intimate. We played these Greek shows, Bill and I sat backstage, he was playing his scales, I had my drumsticks, warming up. You hear the opening band playing, but ov…

May 8th, 2024 Reviews

Belushi Speed Ball – Stellkira (Self-Released)

…Go” that includes some neat guitar harmony action or the S.O.D. meets GWAR-like barrage for “The Hash Slinging Slasher” – but do not mistake their sense of humor for sacrificing quality on the musical side of things. Much like current favorites Municipal Waste or Toxic Holocaust, the production plus tones very much in your face to maximize the effect that you’ll feel when these tracks come out at peak volume across live stages. There are even asp…

May 2nd, 2024 Features

Bat – Streetbangers At Large

…ur first music video for the album. There’s a full costume and she did the bat based on the first album Wings of Chains which was done by Christoph Breit of Infected Arts. I wanted a more action shot of him in a three-forced profile which is menacing to me. We got that accomplished. It’s a 3-D reference I can send to any artist. I want this to be our mascot, the same character each time but in a different position. Kind of like Snaggletooth for Mo…

May 1st, 2024 Reviews

Togenashi Togeari – Togeari (Universal Music)

…guitarwork going on, as the rapid onset of intertwined keyboards and ear-grabbing guitar melodies all but dances around your ears. You can go through the track and give it a real deep-dive and focus on any of the instrumentation, or Rina’s incredibly expressive vocals, and then go back through and focus on another piece. Featured in one of our Selected Singles column, the rumbling basswork of “Answer to Extreme” really does deserve a lot of accola…

April 29th, 2024 Reviews

Amiensus – Reclamation part 1 (M-Theory Audio)

…alf, the songs themselves vary from song to song, though uniting under the band’s ability to merge all of their components into a masterful cohesive display. Gloomy, windswept melodies open up the album with “Blink of the Moment,” where some old melodic doom vibes provide a sense of yearning and warmth before the cold, blastbeats and growls swing the band in a more blackened direction. Moving into some almost soothing clean vocals and ethereal rif…

April 29th, 2024 Reviews

The Ghost Inside – Searching for Solace (Epitaph)

…essive grooves alongside it’s more melodic moments – offering a catchy sing-a-long while giving fans plenty to headbang over. It’s “Cityscapes” that arguably offers the greatest shift in the band’s sound, focusing on more on some almost atmospheric hookiness to the cut and melancholic tinge that gives it a more unique feel that the tracks that surround it. The final song, “Breathless” offers quite a bit of bang to it, while also ending on a hopefu…

April 25th, 2024 Features

Dialith – An Altered Transformation

…nces inside (and outside) of the metal landscape. Their latest EP Alter probably contains their most ambitious array of songs to date – exploring aspects of Celtic and Middle Eastern textures while also incorporating Irish whistle, saxophone, and numerous orchestration accents. We reached out to vocalist Krista Sion to give us the scoop on this newest set of songs, video work with “Shadowdancer”, expectations going into the Mad with Power festival…

April 24th, 2024 Reviews

Darkness – Blood on Canvas (Massacre Records)

…ons often appear in unexpected places where these gentlemen go from comfortable pit-moving tempos into speedier, wilder terrain – sure to excite those who look for dynamics in their thrash. Check out the work of “This and My Heart Beside” or the more Bay Area-driven “Defcon Four” (think Heathen meets Dark Angel here) as you prepare to have your limbs tear apart through a blitzkrieg musical/vocal voyage that contains all the right crunchy downpicki…

April 23rd, 2024 Features

Venues – Modern Evolution

…ong those lines, many of your videos aren’t the typical ‘metal band in the abandoned building’ type affair. What do you look for when you design a music video in terms of expanding the message of the song? Baumann: We are working pretty close with Marius Milinski, who is a good friend of mine. We actually played together in our first band. He became a very well-known videographer in Germany and he does stuff for German TV. We have a special work r…

April 16th, 2024 Features

Suldusk – Pushing Through Musical Boundaries

…elease the demons [laughs]. Dead Rhetoric: What did the formation of a full-band mean for Anthesis? Highfield: I think the next progression from having a full live band was to look around and see who wanted to compose with me. I realized there were two other composers. Josh Taylor, who is the other acoustic guitarist, and Shane Mulholland, who is the other electric guitarist – they were already writing stuff. They had written a lot of their own st…

April 15th, 2024 Reviews

Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox II -Mark of the Beast (ViciSolum Productions)

…ceedings. First track “Distant Assistance” unleashes a progressive guitar, bass, and drum barrage not unlike Meshuggah meets Fear Factory/ Strapping Young Lad before the rollercoaster unfurls, 48 minutes or so later intense in its density as well as quality, thoughtful pace and tempo / mood variety. A sequel should always be able to take the strongest elements of its original presentation to amplify those aspects further. That’s what Loch Vostok s…

April 14th, 2024 Features

SETYØURSAILS – Overcoming Demons

…h SETYØURSAILS. How do you feel that you’ve expanded the boundaries of the band with Bad Blood? Jules Mitch: That’s pretty much what we did. I feel like everytime that I sit down and write a new song, I never think about specific genres or directions I want to go to, I just start writing songs and whatever comes out, comes out. The thing with Bad Blood is that it has a very different message. It’s more like moving forward, standing up for yourself…

April 12th, 2024 Reviews

Ghost Kill – Ghost Kill (Self-Released)

…as they continue forward. A group to latch onto early, as it seems they’ve caught onto something potentially really special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLnKabFiwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY0SsCQAQDM Ghost Kill on Facebook Ghost Kill on Instagram…

April 12th, 2024 Reviews

Ingested – The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams (Metal Blade)

…rend for Ingested, though in ways that won’t be too surprising for any long-time fans. The modern, explosive approach that Ingested have fine-tuned continues to power the way forward. Opening cut “Paragon of Purity” embodies that groove-friendly spirit, with pulverizing riffs and subtle melodies elevating the band’s sound into one that can hit like a sledgehammer yet still leave you aware of all of the details inside it. It’s a fantastic opener, a…

April 9th, 2024 Features

Disbelief – War of the Mind

…d private channels that showed heavy metal on television. We had Mosh, Headbangers Ball, or Viva – now, nothing. That’s not a good evolution, I think. Dead Rhetoric: Do you believe the internet has been a plus to push the genre forward – or do you miss the days of physical fanzines, tape trading, letter writing? Jäger: A little bit I miss the time with tape trading. It was a real cool time to search out music all the time. It was fresh and new. No…

April 8th, 2024 Reviews

Extinct – Incitement of Violence (MDD Records)

…e adequate but occasionally kick-dominant compared to the other tones – probably something for Extinct to temper a little bit on the next record. It’s been eleven years between albums for the group (although the three-song Downward Spiral EP hit the streets in 2021), and for Extinct it seems like all ships sail to port in a similar, competent thrash manner for Incitement of Violence. An ideal record for those who love neck whipping riffs, Gus Cham…

April 8th, 2024 Reviews

Benighted – Ekbom (Season of Mist)

…the more melodic songs on the album, while still providing plenty of teeth-baring moments of violence. “Scapegoat” provides a quick burst of pummeling grooves and sonic blasts, for those seeking something on the more chaotic side of the fence. All is quite well in the Benighted camp, and Ekbom serves of the same level of brash and haunting intensity that fans of extreme metal will enjoy. Plenty of hooks and grooves, but merged with unhinged speed…

April 5th, 2024 Reviews

Avralize – Freaks (Arising Empire)

…ab by Stab” taps into this same mentality, with a very present electronic dabbling and heavy groove moments. “Alive” counters it with a more floaty, melodic edge that sits counter to some punchy djent grooves and moments of darker atmosphere. To finish things off, the band offer the title track, which seems to meld all of the aspects they’ve shown on the album to that point, alternating heavy riffing and groove and interspersing it with rollicking…

April 5th, 2024 Reviews

Boundaries – Death is Little More (3DOT Recordings)

…I Lay Dying), there’s an undeniably modern metal injection that gives the band a more abrasive feeling to their sound. “Darkness Shared” captures this dynamic quite well, with the rumbling, breakdown-friendly waters and frantic riffs giving the band plenty of steam to run off when they leave for a departure into some clean melodies and singing for a few moments. But it doesn’t come across as the cliched variety, only using them when the song nece…

April 5th, 2024 Reviews

SETYØURSAILS – Bad Blood (Napalm)

…inly, the standout in this regard is the already released “Lately,” which dabbles in as much pop and rock mentality as it does heavier territory. It’s bottom end keeps it too far away from ballad territory, but it’s nonetheless a poignant song that could easily find the band quite an audience outside the heavy music niche if it was given the airtime. Mitch’s charismatic vocals wrap around the listener as the melancholic chorus soars into space. It…

April 3rd, 2024 Reviews

Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum (20 Buck Spin)

…crushing in terms of impact. Look into the cement mixer transitions with Sabbath-esque bends or frantic lead spots during “Serpentine Shadows” as evidence of their deadly tandem abilities. The sensible rhythm section passages keep the hook/groove factor always in mind, even when drummer Filth throws in that fluid drum roll or shapeshifting snare/double kick twist during “Decaying Angelic Flesh”, the swirling growls and tremolo runs provide additi…

April 2nd, 2024 Features

Hammer King – Carry the Torch

…y and work two-thirds of the day. Last time, we did a rating of the Black Sabbath albums – talking about the songs, talking about the different eras, vocalists. The music talks about it I enjoy or getting sushi on the lunch break. When it comes to real work, Charles is a very concentrated man, a very down to earth person who will never allow you to make a mediocre take. Which means we don’t fix things in the studio, especially when it comes to the…

April 1st, 2024 Reviews

Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk (Metal Blade Records)

…s felt increasingly as you’re immersed deeper. “Marrusorg” is a tad more subdued, moving between low-key clean passages and immense distorted riffing. A calm before the proverbial storm, in some ways. By this juncture, the listener is fully ingrained by what Hamferð are providing. The vibe of impending disaster smoothly continues in the often hypnotic “Glæman” as Aldará continues to show a range of both voice and pure emotion that is difficult to…

April 1st, 2024 Reviews

Dialith – Alter (Self-Released)

…kie, creating that compelling audience participation movement in the follow-up passages, bassist Mark Grey setting a firm bottom end foundation for the alluring guitar/sax tradeoffs next to the keyboard programming to shine. The highlight track occurs after a brief “Hourglass (Shadowdancer Part 1)” interlude that sets the stage for “Shadowdancer” – the Middle Eastern textures creating this melodic, modern metal tribal dance element – Krista inject…

March 29th, 2024 Reviews

Greyhawk – Thunderheart (Fighter Records)

…the subsequent gallop nature of “Sacrifice of Steel” – the supportive choir-oriented background vocals serving notice that the band aim to triumph with warriors searching for the light, seeking victory no matter what the cost. A nod to gone but never forgotten metal/hard rock legends appears in a talk sequence for “Rock & Roll City” – where Ronnie James Dio and Phil Lynott get name dropped during this sinister bass / guitar tradeoff as the drum te…

March 27th, 2024 Reviews

Venues – Transience (Arising Empire)

…ectronics. “Braille” acts as an early favorite with its punchy riffing and ability to absolutely soar when the chorus comes. Venues continue to improve upon their formula into one that can truly bring heaviness and modern melody together without any sense of sacrifice on the part of either. Transience shows its fangs, but also augments itself with elements that will bring in outside fans to enjoy what the band has done in putting the pieces togeth…

March 26th, 2024 Features

Alterium – The Power of Fantasy

…o and I do it [laughs]. So I just sing in those, where Alterium is like my baby. I take care of writing all the lyrics, the vocal lines, and part of the music too. I’m also working as a manager and doing all of the social and bookings – I’m doing almost everything [laughs]. Dead Rhetoric: So it’s very much going through the trenches with Alterium. I knew that Walk in Darkness was just a singing gig. But it seems with Alterium, it’s embodying every…

March 23rd, 2024 Concert Reviews

Hulder / Devil Master / Worm / Necrofier – March 2, 2024 – The Abbey, Orlando, FL

…dious rhythmic hypnosis, equating to a long form black metal trance that grabbed hold tightly. A doubtlessly fitting conclusion to an effort that lived up to the hype, yet wisely leaving a craving for more. Devil Master More Devil Master images this way Devil Master sure has a somewhat cheesy, theatrical punk approach to their black metal. In this lies their charm and appeal, with many in the crowd eager for the Philly natives to arrive. Swathed i…