Man, this new album Slaves of the Wolf from Bear Mace is a banger and a half! A throwback death metal band from the fertile breeding ground that is Chicago, Illinois, the quintet have...

New York's Dry Kill Logic were more of the unsung nu metal bands back around the turn of the century. They signed with Roadrunner Records and subsequently left after one album, lost several band...

There's been a few bands that have been propelling extreme metal forwards in the last decade or so. Among them, Fallujah is an act that unquestionably has to be mentioned. From the landmark The...

Three-piece outfits often hold a special place in heavy music history – especially if you look at the track record of diverse acts like Anvil, Coroner, King’s X, Rush, Triumph, and Venom to name...

Returning for their 9th album, Volbeat have had a quickly recognizable sound from their onset. The merger of heavy metal, rock, pop, and rockabilly, not to mention guitarist/vocalist Michael Poulsen's readily identifiable voice, they...

Usually in the life cycle of any band, it often takes the third album to truly shed any early influences like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly that flies on their own original path....

A band that has truly undergone an evolution (or even a few) in their musical journey, Katatonia has been one to keep their listeners on their toes. While there's nothing quite as stunning as...

A four-piece outfit content to embrace a diverse sonic outlook as far as atmosphere and influences, Italy’s Hellfox started in 2019, releasing their first single “Dead Star” in the fall of 2020, setting the...

Together since 2018, Hell Priest hails from central Vermont – intent on executing a potent form of speed/thrash metal. They released their self-titled demo a year after forming – in the interim going through...

Thrash metal has gone through periods of domination (the 1980s) as well as drought (the mid-1990s) when it comes to the fifty plus years that heavy metal has been in existence. Illinois’ Patchwork aim...