Corralling influences from a deep well of heavy, classic, and progressive influences in the rock and metal spectrums, Black Sites have been establishing their style quite quickly since starting in 2015. Read more […]
First Fragment’s debut, Dasein, was a wondrous adventure in tech death. It managed to strike a delicate balance between furious, raging tech death metal speeds and some genuinely fun and engaging melodies. Read more […]
Putting decades into a band can be a topsy-turvy experience – ups and downs a parallel that mirrors life. Mastermind guitarist/songwriter Pete Ahonen has been there for Burning Point since their late Read more […]
Consisting of French and Brazilian musicians with ties to solid power/heavy metal and progressive rock acts over the years, Venus Syndrome started under the auspices of guitarist Ayman Mokdad as an environmental Read more […]
Tech death over the years has become something of a farce in some ways. So many bands spend all of their time and effort to try to one-up each other with technical ability and inhuman speed, that we Read more […]
Hailing from France, Destinity have a rich history releasing eight albums to date, evolving from black metal to symphonic black/death during their initial run from 1996-2014. Moving up to Lifeforce Records Read more […]
We all appreciate the transformative possibilities within heavy metal. One genre full of the fantasy, folklore, and magical/mystical storytelling and equally energetic propensities for musical support Read more […]
One of the definitive bands of the deathcore genre, Whitechapel turned some heads with The Valley. It brought a more sensitive, if that’s the right word, side to the band. Due to that, there was Read more […]
A few years back, the band Catalyst Crime was announced and featured some key names from scene. Established vocalist Zoë Marie Federoff (Insatia), drummer Gerit Lamm (Xandria), and Jonah Weingarten Read more […]
Reliable in a groovy brand of old school death metal that combines US aggression with European musicianship and finesse sensibilities, Blood Red Throne have reached their tenth studio album for Imperial Read more […]
When lockdown measures stop any live shows from taking place during a pandemic, what’s a musician to do? Well, in the case of guitarist/vocalist Dean Wells, you bury yourself in your ideas, and churn Read more […]
Usually, when one speaks to the more ‘buzzworthy’ bands in the melodic death metal genre, there will be some knowledgable ones that tip their hats in the direction of Be’lakor. While they aren’t Read more […]
Waking the Cadaver didn’t get off to the best start in the metal community with their deathcore influences and breakdowns, but by the time that their third album, 2013’s Real-Life Death, was released Read more […]
Arching up the ranks through a consistent release schedule and performing across the local New England scene in club shows plus festivals like Warped tour and the New England Metal/Hardcore Fest, Boston-based Read more […]
Evolving out of the ashes of Hellborn Death Engines in 2015 into Illyrian, this Canadian act from Calgary infuses a thrash platform with some intricate progressive, groove, and death inflections. Previously Read more […]
Given what COVID has done to touring, it’s no surprise that some newer acts are wasting no time in delivering a new album – even when they haven’t been able to properly tour for their debut efforts. Read more […]
Proficient while executing tremendous vision and focus a multitude of ways, Gus G. has excelled at the art of the guitar – becoming a permanent fixture in the power metal scene as well as elevating his Read more […]
Expanding to a quartet over the course of their last album The Entity, Unknown and this follow up EP Aegis, Illyrian remains resolute in pushing a combustible musical cocktail of modern thrash and death Read more […]
Truth be told, much of the modern rock of today seems to tap from the same common vein. It feels generic and overdone, working off of a safe and comfortable palate that’s there to ensure ‘big successes.’ Read more […]
Normally we don’t experience sequels three decades plus away from the original product – in any art form. Such is the case here though for German speed/melodic thrash band Paradox. Their second album Read more […]
Not very often in the metal community do you find a veteran death metal outfit like Blood Red Throne moving up the ranks to Nuclear Blast with their tenth studio record. Yet here we are at that precipice Read more […]
One style of music that all of us at Dead Rhetoric can usually agree upon is that of melodic death metal. Particularly when it reaches further into the deathly, old school side (as opposed to the more Read more […]
A part of the Swedish hard rock/metal movement since 1990, Black Rose arrives at their seventh album for Game of Souls. Delivering a sound that contains a host of European/American influences that cross Read more […]
Massacre, most well known for their 1991 full-length debut in From Beyond, have gone through a bounty of musicians over the years despite having only 3 full-lengths prior to Resurgence. But this album Read more […]
Quickly striking while the iron is hot from their debut full-length Digital God, SkyEye signs with Reaper Entertainment for their new record Soldiers of Light. Upping their collective game in all departments Read more […]
There were a lot of massive (and excellent) releases last month, no matter your taste in metal. In our very close race though, the much favored Unto Others managed to capture the top spot, much like Read more […]
Racing rhythms, simplified choruses, supreme tempo control – an all for one mentality towards the cause of heavy metal. Arising out of the India scene, Kryptos now can be seen as a reliable act on the Read more […]
An international assembly of some significant forces within the metal world, Catalyst Crime has been brewing and bubbling up behind the works for the past few years at this point. With drummer Gerit Read more […]
Aware of vocalist Gérard Fois through his previous work in the French power/progressive metal act Dream Child, who released two albums in the late 1990’s, Eternal Flight has been his main band since Read more […]
Delivering a style of heavy metal that incorporates facets of thrash, power, neoclassical, and modern touches, Malison from San Diego, California creates a style that is quite energetic, melodic, and fascinating. Read more […]
We are always up for some brutal death metal here at DR, therefore when the offer came up to host a new track from Czech act Cutterred Flesh, we were all ears. “Knife is Not the Enemy” comes from the Read more […]
