More space rockin’ for ‘ole Dave Wyndorf, who looks like he’s on the straight and narrow since some drug scares a few years ago. Perhaps that’s all a part of Monster Magnet’s journey to elder-statesmen Read more […]
The success of Portal has given Australian death metal a new, more angular façade. Prior, the country had to run out the likes of Destroyer 666 and The Berzerker, two worthy bands, but nowhere near as Read more […]
Recently having to change their moniker from the simple, flat-footed and Misfits-derived “Doyle” to the broader Doyle Airence, these French post-metallers sure know how to kick off an album cycle. Read more […]
Presumably unaware of the hit television show in America bearing the “Walking Dead” tag, France’s The Walking Dead Orchestra formed in 2011, just as Rick Grimes and friends were starting to have Read more […]
One of the first names that come to mind when thinking of song-oriented death metal, Montreal’s Kataklysm have steadfastly remained glued to the sonic attributes of under-appreciated albums such as 2001’s Read more […]
To be frank, always found these guys to be more of the thrash problem than the solution, with their white high-tops, unfocused/generic songs, and lyrical clichés. They’re hard-working gents, that’s Read more […]
What a year for Uppsala, Sweden. Watain’s new The Wild Hunt scored a high chart position, while cementing the band as possibly the best black metal act around, In Solitude are about to climb the ladder Read more […]
All sorts of nice resume stats in Oblivion: An All Shall Perish cast-off, a professor of music/modernist composer, a guitar player working toward his PHD in mathematics, and a drummer being trained by Read more […]
The word “subterranean” appears in the bio for Craven Idol’s Toward Eschaton, and DR probably can’t conjure up a more worthy term for the band’s style of dark death metal. They’re a U.K.-based Read more […]
Nigh time the mighty Paradise Lost digs through their vaults for some b-side and leftover action. They’re no Katatonia in this regard (who have perhaps, the deepest leftover log of songs in metal), but Read more […]
Tech-death is a polarizing beast, for more often than not it melts into something of a lavacannon of notes and gurgles, more than most can make sense of or appreciate. Sometimes, however, a band can manage Read more […]
A lot of us who are of broad mind and in constant need of exploration have come to understand the influence of shoegaze and 80’s new wave on various sub-forms of black and Gothic metal. While it would Read more […]
A riff to Imperial Triumphant is like puddy; it can bend in any which direction, is capable of being twisted into form, and ultimately, can take on any which shape it chooses. They’re not terribly far-flung Read more […]
Originally released earlier in the year as a MCD, Blood Harvest found it suitable to re-release Profane Cult as 12” vinyl with three bonus songs tacked on. Always with the vinyl. Praise the Flame happen Read more […]
Having glided through the treacherous third album territory rather easily with 2011’s Forever Abomination, Athens, OH death/black/thrash gang Skeletonwitch will probably need to figure out sooner or Read more […]
A few years beyond the spectacular Mounds of Ash and Castevet has at last returned with a fantastic and at times very different monster with Obsidian. Picking up Krallice’s own Nick McMaster and featuring Read more […]
Iceland: a proud nation of stunningly beautiful, putrefied shark eating Vikings. Volcanoes that belch poisonous clouds of hellish atmosphere into the jet stream, which wreak havoc on our sense of normalcy, Read more […]
On the refreshing side to hear this kind of snot-nosed, rabid death/thrash; it pretty much goes like Nekrofilth are around to be partially disgusting, maybe offensive, but certainly comedic. There’s Read more […]
It might be DR’s secret wish that specific segments of brutal death metal take the punk approach: In and out, no thought, just do it and have a nice day. Music that is this extreme and aurally unfriendly Read more […]
An interesting takeaway from some of the bonus footage included on Dying Alive: Kreator brings a caterer while on the road. A CATERER. Do you know how many low-level thrash bands would eat off the heel Read more […]
Secrets of the Sky’s debut album, To Sail Black Waters, is steeped in black and sludge metal, but sees the band incorporate myriad influences within their sound to create a tidal wave of audio unique Read more […]
I’ve been fortunate enough to take in this Massachusetts death metal quintet on the live front, and spun their debut album Plague of the Universe from 2009 numerous times. Settling in with a new drummer Read more […]
Last heard from in 2009 with the so-so Lightslaying Rituals, French black metal brigade Temple of Baal are for the most part, an outlier in their homeland’s scene. Inevitably, anything remotely concerned Read more […]
Slump Verb 1. Sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply, esp. with a bent back. Ontario’s atmospheric black metal doomsters, Finner’s Cane, return with their sophomore album in A Portrait Painted Read more […]
Of all the great thrash bands to come out of the 1980s, few stick as closely to the original blueprint of the subgenre as Death Angel. From the band’s debut with The Ultra-Violence all the way to 2010’s Read more […]
] No doubt about it, Pennsylvania’s Rivers of Nihil are technically proficient musicians who have chops for days and show occasional hints of greatness on their full-length debut, The Conscious Seed Read more […]
Is Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super-Science an album title or thesis statement? And people say there are no smart people in metal… The third full-length from wacky/astral/wacky death metal Read more […]
A year passes and we find ourselves with a surprisingly quick turnaround from Monolithe, releasing IV barely a year after III. Much like III, IV is a ‘monolithic’ single piece of continuous funeral Read more […]
Yet another drop in the heavy-handed bucket of spite and vitriol, Columbus, OH’s Empire of Rats dole out a lot of unhappy, frothy hardcore/metal barbs on their self-titled debut. It’s the delivery of the Read more […]
About as undervalued of a death metal band going in those overloaded mid-90’s, Chicago’s Broken Hope enjoyed moderate success before bowing out in 2001. It might not be fair to say they became unfashionable Read more […]
