(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Quite surprised Shadows Fall is still slogging it out, considering they’re on their third record company in as many albums, are no longer at headliner Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Geeky teenage metal fanboy story: Back in my early discovery years, I read about Germany’s Accept in one of my first magazine purchases of 1984, Circus magazine. Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) An up-and-comer in the United Kingdom extreme metal underground, De Profundis’s stellar recording output is matched by their attention to detail, Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) From purely a conceptual standpoint, Ahab stands alone. The German-based metallers have brought the stories of Melville’s Moby Dick into the Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Not many metal guitarists have recorded so many albums in their early 30’s like Greece’s Kostas Karamitroudis – otherwise known to most people Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) The delay behind Slumber’s long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s genius Fallout was simple and complex at the same time. Unable to work within the Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Everyone takes something different away from death metal. Whether it’s in b-horror movie concepts, blinding technicality, or romper-room chunky Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Blunt elegance in Gothic doom was introduced by My Dying Bride circa Turn Loose the Swans. As opposed to the style’s mostly theatrical bent (see: Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Avantasia/Edguy mainman Tobias Sammet is not only a workaholic, he’s an unintentional matchmaker. You see, for this very interview you’re about Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) During my college years, I remember hearing a lot of this New York metal act on specialty metal radio shows. Their video work would also make an Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Pay no mind to their relatively banal name – France’s Outcast (not to be confused with the American hip-hop group OutKast) are a beacon of light Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Apparently, there’s an ongoing argument whether Torche is an actual metal band or not. Various Internet message board lifers have had a field day Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Far and away the biggest Portuguese metal band, Moonspell’s career arc has been that of two initial quick bursts (1995’s Wolfheart and 96’s Irreligious) Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) On a shockingly warm St. Patrick’s Day (there was no winter thaw this year), there stood tall and gangly Blistering and Municipal Waste guitarist Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) You know an interview is going to go well when the interviewee picks up and says, “David, Bobby Blitz here.” And really, is there a cooler nickname Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) A take on Rainbow’s seminal Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll, the title of 3 Inches of Blood’s new Long Live Heavy Metal is serving as a sort of rallying Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Supergroups aren’t built to last, and if they were, then every metal musician with at least something marginally respectable to his or her name Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Because they never got totally sucked into the world of black metal, Norway’s Borknagar have long drifted along over the course of 17 years as Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) A one-song EP is not the most orthodox ways of re-introducing oneself to the underground after four years, yet such measures are necessary (and warranted) Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) This is the second part of Matt’s chat with Pharaoh, who in our humble estimation, are one of the best melodic metal bands North America has to offer. Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) When given the chance to speak to a fellow journalist who also happens to be an incredible metal musician, there’s never a loss for words, especially Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Neutered by Facebook and done-in by its functional and cosmetic faults, Myspace was once the place to be for finding new, unsigned bands. By our Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) On the debut from Little Rock, Arkansas-based Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction(Profound Lore), there’s a hardened, Southern-toned lurch in full-swing, Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Throw the word “Gothenburg” in front of anything in metal and instantly, visions of melodic death grandeur come alive. There’s enough back story Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Anyone that wears a dead fox draped around their neck has some serious balls…or hasn’t been brow-beaten by PETA yet. While it’s not as imitable Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) A man who wears many hats at once (musician, filmmaker, visual artist), Les Discrets mainman Fursy Teyssier has taken what essentially is his hobby Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Four-on-the-floor recordings are rapidly going the way of the dinosaur. Thanks to advancements in technology and the preponderance of ultra-clean Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Ben Falgoust can talk and talk a lot. The Bayou-bred frontman has every reason to be talkative both on the phone and in lyrical form, for you, his Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) There’s a moment on “Over and Over,” the first song on Christian Mistress’s second full-length Possession (Relapse) where the band goes Read more […]
(This content originally appeared on Blistering.com) Leave it to a band from the exotic isle of Tasmania to infuse some much-needed character into technical death metal. Psycroptic has been laying down Read more […]
