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Noumena – The Burning Burden

To demonstrate the amount of time that has lapsed between album releases for Finland’s Noumena, this scribe interviewed the band in 2007 for a print publication, Metal Maniacs. Back then, it appeared Read more […]

Fatality North American Tour Diary Part IV

Toronto’s favourite thrash party monsters Fatality are currently on a two-month North American “Towards Disastour” in support of their latest album, Psychonaut. Vocalist Spencer Le Von checks in Read more […]

Stone Magnum – Locked In Doom Overload

Straight shooters deserve respect in any scene- especially in metal. One look at the social media channels of guitarist Dean Tavernier of US doom/classic metal outfit Stone Magnum and you’ll know what Read more […]

Children of Bodom – A Bottle Deep and the Sun Is Up

The suddenly bronze members of Children of Bodom are in no way used to trekking across North American on a summer outdoor tour. This time of year is usually reserved for the vaunted European festival circuit, Read more […]

Lord – Yes They Can…And So Will You

The first name in Australian power metal, Lord’s career is unique in that they survived a name change while retaining the bulk of their lineup. Originally formed as Dungeon in 1989, the band adopted Read more […]

Fatality North American Tour Diary Part III

Toronto’s favourite thrash party monsters Fatality are currently on a two-month North American “Towards Disastour” in support of their latest album Psychonaut. Frontman Spencer LeVon checks in, telling Read more […]

Battlecross – Crushing With Will

In today’s fight for people’s attention, you can’t just let as Aerosmith once proclaimed “the music do the talking.” Technology zooms at light speed, and attention spans shift almost as quickly. Read more […]

Fatality North American Tour Diary Part II

Toronto’s favourite thrash party monsters Fatality are currently on a two-month North American “Towards Disastour” in support of their latest album Psychonaut. Fatality vocalist Spencer LeVon checks Read more […]

Ola Englund – Now You Know

The reshaping of The Haunted’s lineup was a long time coming, with the band having effectively spent itself creatively well before the release of 2011’s critically and commercially-panned Unseen. Most Read more […]

Sirenia – Deep Cold and the Deeper Blue

It’s by sheer coincidence than Sirenia and Tristania are releasing albums within a few weeks of each other. The pair, inexorably linked because of guitarist/vocalist Morten Veland’s involvement in each, Read more […]

The Amenta – Null, Empty, Void

December 2009, Pittsburgh, PA. DR in its former incarnation as Blistering.com was asked to cover Vader’s North American headline tour, a run that saw no less than three bands drop off from the billing. Read more […]

Fatality North American Tour Diary Part I

Toronto’s Fatality have geared up for a two-month North American “Towards Disastour” in support of their latest masterpiece Psychonaut, which was released on June 28. As the thrash party monsters strike Read more […]

Tristania – Requiem For a Scream

Once the torchbearers for female-fronted, symphonic Goth metal, Norway’s Tristania have made diligent strides in the other direction, evolving into an entity almost separate from their past. You won’t Read more […]

Queensryche – Paving the Road to Madness

The Geoff Tate versus Queensryche battle is good enough theater for Court TV or TruTV…whatever they’re calling it these days. The story of Tate’s deception, shady business dealings, and utter lack Read more […]

June 2013 Rapid Fires

A continuation of a column we ran on our former incarnation, Blistering.com, Rapid Fires will allow us to give albums some page-time that otherwise would be forever left in the digital queue. Such moves Read more […]

Jon Oliva – The Mountain King Reigns

Musicians handle tragic circumstances in their own way. For Jon Oliva, the death of his brother Criss Oliva on October 17, 1993 at the hands of drunk driver sent the man back into the studio for the recording Read more […]

Dan Swanö – Recollections of the Shadowman Part II

The second part of our interview with Swedish producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö, on the docket for discussion is his work with perennial DR favorites Katatonia, whom Swanö had a close relationship Read more […]

Dan Swanö – Recollections of the Shadowman

One of the brick layers of the Swedish metal underground, producer, multi-instrumentalist Dan Swano has logged more hours behind the mixing board than humanly possible, all the while laying claim to a Read more […]

Dead Rhetoric.com Top 5 of 2013…So Far

We’re over the halfway mark of 2013, a year that has been peppered with big happenings and bad news (see: Jeff Hanneman). Par for the course in metal? Yeah, probably, yet somewhere in between a rash of Read more […]

Bruce Soord & Jonas Renkse – The Departer and the Nerve

The Pineapple Thief is one those periphery bands for a lot of us; proggy, a smidge obscure, but with enough musicality that it will take the progressive-minded off the rails into different territory. And Read more […]

Atrocity – Deep in the Subconscious

New death metal bands want to sound like old death metal bands, while old death metal bands want to sound new, or fresh, for that matter. It’s what happens when things come full-circle, like they have Read more […]

Everlasting Singularity: Dead Rhetoric Bids Adieu To The Devil’s Blood

When word broke that The Devil’s Blood were disbanding, subsequent waves of bafflement and wonder emerged from the underground. How could a band seemingly on the upswing, the virtual crux of greater Read more […]

Aborym – You, Me, Us…All Dirty

Aborym’s new album is titled Dirty, and it’s about being dirty. While thoughts of Christina Aguilera’s song of the same name rattle in Dead Rhetoric’s head, the focus shifts over to how in fact, Read more […]

Cynthesis – A Second Progressive ReEvolution

At one time, progressive metal as a genre represented the big three: Dream Theater, Fates Warning, and Queensryche. During the 1990s thanks to all three acts extensive touring domestic and abroad, the Read more […]

Eyeconoclast – Killing Capacity: Massive

From the garage to the underground, to whatever the next level is…such is the trajectory for Italy’s Eyeconoclast. Finding a niche band in Italy is tough enough, but apparently, keeping a stable lineup Read more […]

The Omega Experiment – Karma to Learn

We’ve spoken to bands doing things themselves least a few times in the year that has been 2013. Generally, that entails being in a one-man black metal band and not having the slightest care about production Read more […]

Immolation – 25 Years Of Terror

A long time pillar of New York’s death metal sector, Immolation continue their legacy of extreme, no bullshit metal with the release of Kingdom of Conspiracy. The latest album sees the band at their Read more […]

The Merciless Book of Metal List’s Howie Abrams

Understanding of the fabric that makes the metal underground so important to many of us, industry vet Howie Abrams and co-author Sacha Jenkins set out to create the ultimate coffee table mainstay in the Read more […]

Anciients – Hashes and Ashes

Worthy of the term “buzzworthy,” Vancouver’s Anciients are currently one of the bands that has the metal and hard rock press up in arms with praise. While Dead Rhetoric doesn’t fully have the pulse Read more […]

Amorphis – The Circle and the Smoke

The Joutsen-era of Amorphis has been so consistent and so good, that we might start taking it for granted. It’s a far cry from those hum-drum early 00’s days, when the band was treading creative water, Read more […]

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