For many, the term “deathcore” ends up being tossed about much like a dirty word, instantly sullying the band in question. Regardless of your take on the genre, it does have its innovators. Those Read more […]
Edmonton, Alberta Canada may be known to most as the hockey town that Wayne Gretzky put on Lord Stanley’s map during the 1980’s, but there has been a potent metal scene brewing in these parts for quite Read more […]
After coming across Pronostic’s 2012 debut, Deviated Inner Spectrum, last year on Bandcamp, it was thrilling to see that the band was coming out with a follow-up. Sporting a killer cover from Colin Read more […]
Hitting the charts right out of the gate in their Swedish homeland with their 2009 The Darkest Room debut album, it’s been six years to reach for the follow up currently under the microscope. With a Read more […]
A bunch of relative newbs from California, Graveshadow have not only managed to snag a deal with long-standing Belgium label Mausoleum, they were also assisted in the mixing process of Deathstars main Read more […]
If Bandcamp has provided this writer with anything, it’s that the Russian metal scene is one that is booming, and always producing exceptional, under-the-radar stuff. The Russian/Ukranian band Kauan Read more […]
Establishing a presence in the thrash field circa 2015 is not easy considering the veteran players still pummeling with high quality product (Testament, Death Angel, Overkill) as well as the newer generation Read more […]
A band who evidently, are just starting to come into their own in the oftentimes expansive and exciting world of atmospheric rock-on-metal (or vice-versa), Chile’s Bauda have released a symmetrical, lush Read more […]
The one-man project – a usual black metal specialty at this point. To the point that it’s not really shocking anybody when it comes through with a press release. But one-man death metal? That’s Read more […]
He does fantastic artwork, but from a mile away, you know it’s a Seth Siro Anton (Septicflesh) cover art job on Beneath Abyss. Such was the first thing that came to mind when Caelestia’s Beneath Abyss Read more […]
Blame it on Dimmu Borgir. Or more recently perhaps Septicflesh and Fleshgod Apocalypse. But there’s no denying the impact of an effective orchestration surrounding an extreme metal base. Ouroboros’ Read more […]
The longstanding complaint with Abigail Williams is that they’re almost too adaptable to the times. When keyboard-dominated, metalcore-influenced black metal started to head on out, so did Abigail Williams. Read more […]
The latest case of the disappearing band act, Brazil’s Pathologic Noise recorded several demos starting in the late ‘90s and delivered a full-length, Sodomy and Delight on Flesh, in 2003 only to vanish Read more […]
A bit of a lengthy title on this one, particularly when the album (EP?) only consists of 4 songs and a brief introduction. But there’s no denying the “metalness” and coolness of this particular Read more […]
A bit unnerving to see dude-man-bro-down metalcore/djent ‘core makes it way over to Switzerland, you know? We’ve yet to quarantine the style over here in America, so when it travels over the Atlantic Read more […]
Of the areas that can currently be explored with the black metal lens, one ripe for the taking is that of hardcore/metalcore (old school metalcore, not the Gothenburg-inspired stuff). There’s an interesting Read more […]
There’s no better example of an age-defying band than Saxon. Every album release, it’s a marvel Biff Byford and company are still operating at such a high level; it’s almost as if they’re oblivious Read more […]
Sweden’s Månegarm has been kicking out the blackened/folksy Viking metal jams since the late nineties. Now releasing their eighth studio album, these vets ably demonstrate their staying power in the genre, Read more […]
A musical project between a number of symphonic/power metal musicians known around the circuit such as Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels, Serenity singer Georg Neuhauser and Everon multi-instrumentalist/producer Read more […]
Originally released in early 2014 on cassette (no less), Sun Worship’s debut effort Elder Giants is getting the proper release treatment via Translation Loss. A German black metal trio who formed in Read more […]
Digging deeper into my new local CT scene, this journalist first took in Shallow Ground from Meriden at a thrash/death show in New Hampshire prior to moving – immediately picking up their debut album Read more […]
It’s very possible the fertile extreme metal country that is Poland won’t be able to hold onto Mord ‘A’ Stigmata for much longer. Active since 2004, the Poles have held court in their own territory Read more […]
Featuring members of up-and-coming, but unsung Australian acts Vespers Descent, Chaos Divine, Noctis, Ur Draugr and Deadspace, Watercolour Ghosts is a relatively new outlet, parlaying the sounds of metal, Read more […]
The wonders of the world today, where you can have a group of musicians in a band that spread themselves from all across the globe. Serocs has members from Mexico, Finland, the US, and Canada, all pulled Read more […]
All hail the eternal, lumbering march towards Golgotha! Particularly as of late, with an enormous push of bands pushing out that combination of Incantation, Autopsy, and Bolt Thrower in order to drone Read more […]
With rumblings ISIS (the band) are gearing up to reform, it looks like post-metal is due for another bloom. Now, this doesn’t mean its current inhabitants aren’t doing quality work; Rosetta are still Read more […]
With the combination of Revocation’s self-titled effort in 2013 and last year’s Deathless, it appears that much of the metal world has finally caught up to what Revocation has been cooking since the Read more […]
As Victory Records’ most unconventional signing, Montreal black metal horde Erimha have taken it upon themselves to be equally as non-conforming. While the band’s 2013 Reign Through Immortality effort Read more […]
The first word that seems to come to mind with Marasmus’ sophomore effort, Conjuring Enormity, is that of intensity. And that’s saying something, because as a writer, you are constantly exposed to Read more […]
Still fresh off their warmly-received 2014 Untrodden Corridors of Hades album, long-running (as in, 1988) Greek black metal ensemble have cobbled together an odds-and-sods EP by way of The Confessional Read more […]
