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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some bands start to run into a trend of simply following what came before them by the time of their third full-length – they have established a sound and are sticking to it. Not the case for Persona, Read more […]
Containing members from the Midwest with experience in the studio and on stage for acts like Novembers Doom, Abigail Williams, High Spirits, and Glacier among others, Black Sites are a trio active since Read more […]
Rumors abound years back when preparing for the follow up to 2012’s Tales of the Weird album that German act Paradox would release a sequel to their second record Heresy, one of their iconic records Read more […]
With a stream of high-quality releases, The Agonist has been known for a while to be an act that’s tough to pigeonhole. For all of their extremity and musicianship, there’s a certain level of grace Read more […]
Much like veteran artists who chose to be creative while the world went on COVID-19 lockdown, many DIY and self-released metal bands wasted no time diving into fresh tunes, recording them, and waiting Read more […]
Modern death metal act Reaping Asmodeia have been able to design a version of extremity that doesn’t fall too far out of the box, yet successfully avoids being pigeonholed into one of our many categories Read more […]
Intertwining ‘imagination’ and ‘nature’ for their moniker, Imaginature from Poland develops an interesting mix of power, progressive, and symphonic metal on this self-titled album. Between the Read more […]
We are stoked to be giving away some CDs, a patch, wooden logo sticker and comic book from Floridian epic folk metallers Heirs of Isildur. Here’s what one (1) winner will come away with: • Heirs of Read more […]
A band that really took the time to build themselves up over the years, Cognizance released a number of short EPs and singles before jumping into full-length waters. That said, they recently released Read more […]
The Agonist’s sixth full-length, Orphans, saw the band shifting back towards more technical and musically complex waters after some increased dabbling in melody on Five. Days Before the World Wept Read more […]
Quickly establishing a presence through a series of EP’s and albums since their 2016 beginnings, Wraith lives for an early, non-compromising thrash sound that devastates. Expanding their lineup from Read more […]
Establishing their trade in the heavy/power/speed metal scene since the 1980’s, German act Rage have expanded back into a quartet lineup for their latest record Resurrection Day – a first since 1999’s Read more […]
Florida act Wage War has been raising their own particular flag of metalcore for over a decade at this point. Their newest album, the recently released Manic, isn’t afraid of stepping out of the genre Read more […]
