Yeah, we struggled with the name too, thinking it was some good-for-nothing deathcore band or just some good-for-nothing band in general, yet there’s some serious value to what An Autumn For Crippled Children Read more […]
Australia as a remote country certainly has produced its fair share of unique bands in the metal genre through the years, and believe it or not has quite a potent power/progressive metal scene. Names like Read more […]
The best band seemingly no one outside of metal knows about, 3’s superlative songwriting abilities and magnetic presence are ignited again on their fifth album, The Ghost You Gave To Me. Main dude Joey Read more […]
Never understood what the fuss was over these guys, even though certain people on the staff (i.e. Donnelly) seem to think Redemption are the best prog metal thing going. They’re not, and while Blistering Read more […]
The side-project of Exodus singer Rob Dukes, Generation Kill earmarks classic thrash/crossover, doing its best to not sound like Exodus, apparently. And they don’t, leaving that up to the retro thrash Read more […]
Without Mike Portnoy (for better or worse) steering the DreamTheater ship, A Dramatic Turn of Events is the perfect opportunity for the emboldened progressive metallers to truly show their mettle. Read more […]
Caught in no-man’s land between Fear Factory-bred cyber metal and mortifying Linkin Park-styled rock, Canada’s Threat Signal can’t win for losing. It really boils down to the fact that singer Jon Read more […]
This very website you are so kindly reading was named after a Machine Head song back in 1998, so apparently, Machine Head isn’t taken lightly around here. We’d be singing a different tune if Rob Read more […]
If things were the way they’re supposed to be (as in, people still bought physical product and the industry wasn’t in the toilet), Mastodon would arguably be the scene’s commercial representative. Read more […]
Lots of fight in left in Steve Austin, even after nine albums and several decades into Today Is the Day’s existence. Not even counting the band’s numerous lineup changes, of which for Pain Is A Warning enlists Read more […]
The brainchild of former Pissing Razors guitarist Matt DiFabio, Single Bullet Theory is remarkably still afloat after 11 years in the American metal underground. Such a period of time is a death knell Read more […]
“Amalgam metal” should be the tag applied to everyone these days. Forget us somewhat-intelligent metal journalists coming up tags like, “Frost-bitten folk metal with a urban twist” or “Concrete-addled Read more […]
Mikael Akerfeldt lives in the 70’s…everyone who follows Opeth knows that. Aside from the man’s very-public affinity for it, Opeth’s flirtations with 70’s prog has been an accessory to most of their studio Read more […]
Camouflage pants. Sabaton wears ‘em and wears ‘em well. Being that their profile has shot through the stratosphere in the last 18 months, a lot of people are getting used to seeing the Swedes and their Read more […]
You know, if this were 2003, people would be all over Anterior. They’re everything that stoked the fires of the new American metal movement (the band is British, though), possessing flashy leads, scream/shouted Read more […]
Dualism is the right album for Textures to make at this point, as another album of None-era Meshuggah mimicking wouldn’t suffice. Instead, the band’s new singer (Daniel de Jongh) brings a drastically Read more […]
Scotland’s Falloch is not to be confused with Agalloch, but it’s not bad company to be in. Perhaps it’s no strange coincidence that both bands hold up the atmospheric end of the metal bargain quite Read more […]
Look at Saviours…getting down and rocking. It’s really not that hard, you know? And there’s no shortage of bands like the Oakland, CA-based crew, it’s just a matter of execution and not coming Read more […]
Always nice to hear John Arch’s voice. It’s as helium-induced as ever, that’s for sure, something that’s immediately evident on Sympathetic Resonance, which sees the singer pair with former Fates Warning Read more […]
We get it, Century – you’re pissed-off. Blistering gets PO’d too when things go wrong, like when there’s no Mt. Dew in the fridge or the Cleveland Browns decide it’s a good idea to lose teams Read more […]
Blistering doesn’t envy any new death metal band trying to make it in the “game.” It’s not easy out there; rather it’s impossible out there. And when you’re stacked up against hundreds of Read more […]
The last in a trilogy that started with 2007’s really-awesome Two Hunters, Celestial Lineage sees Wolves In the Throne room take a decidedly-obvious step forward in the production department (read: Read more […]
Nothing like a trial by fire for this Danish thrash/death quintet, having to replace your vocalist before your biggest North American tour to date opening for the Black Dahlia Murder in the winter of 2010. Read more […]
Prog metal has this unfortunate way of regurgitating itself. In fact, it’s more frustrating than anything considering most of these yokels can outplay just about anyone, it seems like no one wants to Read more […]
If you just did a double-take in regard to the rating to the left, we don’t blame you. Anthrax was essentially dead in the water as little as two years ago (something we noted in this not-so kind editorial) Read more […]
A touch away from falling into the blossoming line of Gojira soundalikes, France’s Minushuman have a pretty good thing going for themselves on their second album (and first for Season of Mist), Bloodthrone. Read more […]
Comprised of five hard-to-find songs from limited-edition vinyl runs,The Unspoken Hymns is being released to set up Mournful Congregation’s forthcoming The Book of Kings, which is due this November. Read more […]
There should be some type of “Thrash Starter Kit” so bands that want to latch themselves to the teat of 80’s thrash don’t have to put in too much work. There’s still such a deluge of bands aping Read more […]
Like clockwork, here comes another Saxon album. They’re not that much different than Motorhead in this approach, being that both bands are of practically the same age, have iconic frontmen, are from Read more […]
Metal’s own version of The Sing-Off, Germany’s Van Canto return with their five-part vocal originality, once again handling all the melodies and instrumentation outside of Bastian Emig’s natural Read more […]
