Active for over a decade, this quartet of musicians contains deep ties to the development of speed/thrash metal in its infancy. Especially if names like Abattoir and Evil Dead crop up in your record collections. Read more […]
With all of the cross pollination of the metal scene (particularly black metal), it seems almost strange when going through the sea of new material and find something so easily identifiable. Something Read more […]
Deciding the time is ripe to name a fourth album after their namesake (as Myrath is Arabic for ‘legacy’), this mostly Tunisian/part French act create an intoxicating brand of progressive metal with Read more […]
Fortunate to grow up through the first generation of thrash, it’s always nice to hear younger bands embodying that free thinking, raw attitude that put the movement on the fast track for underground Read more […]
Just when you think “Band X has vanished,” they go ahead and pop back up again. Marionette is one of those Gothenburg bands, in the literal sense, though if you listen to their discography there probably Read more […]
Capturing their recent 2015 Masters of Rock festival appearance in the Czech Republic, One Night of Blood is a DVD + CD set that makes me believe the live album market isn’t as dead as once appeared Read more […]
With the Metal Knights EP being the first recorded output of any kind from San Antonio’s Jessikill, the band may be relatively new on the album release scene, but this quintet is comprised of seasoned Read more […]
What’s more important in death metal, soaking in some melody or going full out with speed? Your choice does impact what your thoughts will be upon hearing Antioch. Of course, there’s no right answer, Read more […]
Always impressive to discover a band that has been hard at work for twenty years that hasn’t popped up into your radar. Such is the case with Russian folk metallers Alkonost, for which Tales of Wanderings Read more […]
Bound to be the new gold standard in just how inhuman you can get vocals in death metal, Virulency will test your tolerance for low gurgles as you move through their debut, The Anthropodermic Manuscript Read more […]
Australia’s Blade of Horus is the next band to try to make it big in the tech death field, with Monumental Massacre being their first dip in the pond. A short, 22-minute EP comprised of 6 songs and Read more […]
First hearing Entropia’s debut album Vespers, it seemed that the band had some potential. They were playing along familiar lines with the whole ‘blackgaze’ thing, but it was a strong effort that Read more […]
The full title of 2.0.1.6. is “2.0.1.6.: This Is the End of It All… the Beginning of Everything…” but no one wants to read that in a review header. Anyway, Mefisto were one of the first extreme Read more […]
The words ‘Christian black metal’ have always been a tough sell for most metalheads. Perhaps that’s why Crimson Moonlight have always went with the ‘unblack metal’ tag instead. Their second Read more […]
Of all of the subgenres heavy metal has come up with over the last decade or so, Varg’s “wolf metal” is one that seems to stand out. Not entirely sure what it means, other than the relation to the Read more […]
The sixth studio album The Art of Loss from California’s Redemption sees the group on fresh terrain – new record deal in place, and five years beyond their last original record This Mortal Coil. The Read more […]
Abyssic, or, A Winter’s Tale is perhaps the result of when a bunch of name Norwegian extreme metal musicians get together to find out they have too much time on their hands. The brainchild of Susperia Read more […]
Technically-driven melodic death thrashers Divinity are back with the second part of their The Immortalist trilogy, Momentum, following 2013’s Awestruck. Firing on all cylinders, the band also included Read more […]
“Backwoods Sabbath,” perhaps? West Virginia’s Brimstone Coven make little attempts at covering up who their primary influence is, which would be, obviously Black Sabbath. Throw in Pentagram, Blue Cheer, Read more […]
This Italian act pull out all the stops to strive for originality in a metal world where most believe every type of sub-category or genre bending to each light to heavy extreme is already out there. Redwest Read more […]
Vibrant times for Delain – prime time tour exposure (since the fall of 2014 in North America alone on runs with Sonata Arctica and Nightwish separately) and a series of albums that keep their infectious Read more […]
As if the name weren’t enough of a giveaway, Baphomet’s Blood are all about Satanic speed metal. The Italian thrash quartet formed in 2003 and has since released two demos, two EPs, three full-length Read more […]
At some point, singing about fantasy and folklore gets old. Or maybe doesn’t, but tackling some more “carefree” topics feels appropriate. Either way, such is the chosen path for Elvenking singer Read more […]
You know, all of these bands with “Black” in front of their name sure can confuse the easily confused, which would be this writer. Black Tusk, unfortunately, are easy to confuse with Black Cobra, who Read more […]
Will be curious to see once Bombus starts making the interview rounds how many times they’re asked how about melodic death metal. After all, they are from Gothenburg. It’s a trap a lot of us journalists Read more […]
On the scene for just over a decade, Italy’s Tarchon Fist have released three full-lengths, a couple of demos, and this second compilation following My Graveyard Productions personal reasons for dropping Read more […]
Eschewing bombastic intros to charge right from the start with a double-bass, twin guitar harmony fueled passage that signals opener “Creation of Reality” proves the third album Master Creator from Read more […]
Identifiable guitarists in metal, unfortunately, are few and far between. Advancements in technology, not to mention the ever-shrinking riff pool have subsequently diminished the value of singular inventive Read more […]
When one thinks of Portland, Oregon, one is drawn towards the hipster culture and of course, Cascadian black metal. But that’s not at all what you are about to receive with Torture Rack. If the name Read more […]
Yet another one of those “supergroups” that everyone hoots and hollers about, The Resistance most famously re-united ex-In Flames axemen Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungstrom with The Haunted’s Read more […]
