Kvlt as fuck, more or less. Hailing from dark corners of the Earth and possessing a surprising degree of finesse across these four otherwise ugly bits of work, this is cavernous death metal, no frills Read more […]
Retro rock is so prevalent at the present time that it starts to beg the question of where is the tipping point to where this stuff is more Allman Brothers than Led Zeppelin? It’s a valid inquiry given Read more […]
Note: This review is based solely on the 2CD edition, not the DVD. Some often wonder what the point of a live album is, but it does seem to act a good indicator of a band’s popularity. For Meshuggah, Read more […]
Sometimes awesome and sometimes frustrating, Lunarterial is a peculiar piece of work. Chaotic and at times dissonant death metal freely intermingling with often lengthy doom passages, it’s death doom Read more […]
Adding to the Italian stranglehold on brutal death metal, Septycal Gorge may not immediately feel as similar to their countrymen (ie: Hideous Divinity, Bloodtruth, Hour of Penance) as there is a definitive Read more […]
Journalists who’ve written in the scene for a while become immune to bio bravado. So when reading about these Italian thrashing death metallers on their debut full length album Mirroring the Abyss and Read more […]
Just take a moment and gaze upon what might just be the coolest cover art of the year. Seriously, that’s the type of thing that you frame on your wall! With such a cool cover art to present Horrendous’ Read more […]
Hailing from the same town as Def Leppard, Sheffield, UK’s Northern Oak went the crowd-funding route for their third album, Of Roots and Flesh. Such a show of support for an unsigned band, relegated Read more […]
Two bands, two songs, twelve minutes of epic, obscure, raw and all around terrific black metal. Sound good? I think so. Don’t underestimate the length because it’s like a black hole that’ll send Read more […]
The joys of growth made real and made present for all the world to see. Two years removed from the long-loved (by me, anyway) Intrinsic and sonically a lifetime away from debut Exoplanet, Language sees Read more […]
The Ukrainian metal pecking order is like this: Drudkh, then everyone else. It’s an odd circumstance given that Drudkh never grant interviews, nor appear in band photos, which is the type of stuff that Read more […]
Ævangelist’s sophomore effort, Omen Ex Simulacra, found it’s way into my personal top 10 albums of 2013. As inhospitable as they come, as far as metal albums go, it was the atmosphere of Omen that Read more […]
Progressive rock seems to be a like-it-or-don’t kind of genre, but anyone with ears can usually tell that a commonality with the stuff is great musicianship. Actually, the same can be said with heavy metal Read more […]
Based on the visuals produced via Chile on Hell, veteran American bands would be advised to shoot their live forays in a South American and/or European country. The convenience factor of shooting in the Read more […]
If you ever wanted to know what the sound/process of getting hit by a truck somewhere in rural Sweden sounds like, Storm is probably a pretty good embodiment. Surprisingly agile for a debut doom album Read more […]
The cavernous death metal movement has been one area that has been expanding as of late. Taking the crawling and sinister vibes of bands like Incantation and Immolation, the dissonance of bands like Gorguts Read more […]
The life of an independent symphonic power metal band in the United States is not paved with lucrative endorsements, luxurious amenities, and large record contracts waiting on your doorstep. The reality Read more […]
The White Death is like one those over-the-roof expensive chocolates, small in size but packs a ten-fold punch of flavor. The musical value barely makes up for the short length, if anything it’s kind Read more […]
Come on, it’s Falls of Rauros we’re talking about. All who have been previously captivated by their majestic tunes probably already got their eyes set on their forthcoming album, Believe in No Coming Read more […]
Yet another one of those one-person black metal bands that seem to magically appear out of nowhere with an impressive debut, Myrkur has been gaining some traction and hype due to the fact that instead Read more […]
The name pretty much spells it out. Black Autumn aren’t of the sunny-day variety, in case the band’s moniker and subsequent album artwork threw you for a loop. (Doesn’t it look like the fine gal Read more […]
Antropomorphia are keenly aware of one thing: sex sells. The band has generated some controversy in the past (one of their album covers is that of a tattooed vagina), and Rites ov Perversion settles for Read more […]
It’s been three years since we’ve gotten wind of any new Decapitated material. Never one to repeat themselves, nor rest on their laurels, each new album from Decapitated adds new elements to the mix Read more […]
Part Finnish and Swedish, Sons of Crom have it in their Scandinavian blood to play metal culled from the epic hilltops of early 90s Bathory. ‘Ole Quorthon during his cherished Hammerheart and Twilight Read more […]
In today’s thrash parade, you find most newer bands gravitating towards one particular favorite scene, be it the Bay Area, the East Coast faction, or Teutonic eras that generated such a buzz in the mid Read more […]
Fortunate to be on the ground floor running in my Snakepit magazine era through their debut album The Dark Discovery, Evergrey has always been a favorite in the dark power/progressive metal realm. Incorporating Read more […]
If you find yourself removed from the pales of life and given to the suffocating dark surrounded by all your sins and failures, there’s a good chances that Monarch! will be seething from the neighboring Read more […]
Long-time slam originators Internal Bleeding have often seemed to get a bum rap. Listening to their first two albums (1995’s Voracious Contempt and 1997’s The Extinction of Malevolence), the production, Read more […]
Being a mid-tier European melodic death/thrash band has its advantages. Number one, the net result of simply doing the same thing over and over will keep the status quo in check. And secondly, there’s Read more […]
It’s pretty safe to say that Black Crown Initiate took the metal world by storm last summer with the release of their Song of the Crippled Bull EP. An impeccable mixture of the more progressive side Read more […]
