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Consider the best traits of heavy metal from the late seventies and early eighties. Righteous riffs. Arena-sized party anthems. Triumphant lyrics with sing-along choruses....
From the chilly Scandinavian homeland which they draw their inspiration, Ensiferum sits atop the heap of modern folk-metal bands. Along with other genre standbys...
"With minimal (but not too minimal) production values, and a clear DIY vibe, Coffin Storm is exactly what you think it should be."
"We really are at a saturation point where it's difficult for yet another 1991-worshipping act to stand out. However, Outer Heaven stands apart from...
"If you literally need heavy metal to live, then Outsider might be immortality on tap."
'Valesa - Chapter 1: Velvet Prison takes Major Parkinson to exciting and courageous new places without abandoning what makes them so singular and admirable.'
"In the meantime, everything comes together on this record to make for an excellent nostalgia trip."
"Malevolence has proven that high-voltage heavy metal can exist within a beatdown framework."
"Overall, the album is fantastic and is highly recommended to fans of the band or fans of progressive death metal, or simply progressive metal...
"Heavy Steps acts a beacon of how to bolster one's own basics and starting points so as to inject new life into one's own...
"Doom Crew Inc. is not a bad record, but it occupies a lower spot in BLS's overall ranking."
"Spinning the record reveals harrowing atmospherics, a sense of grandiosity, devastating emotional weight and wrenching mood swings all woven around a diverse stanchion of...
"If this isn't metal, then the term has lost any meaning it ever had."
"Here, the creation is one of a mood similar to that of the best cliff hanger that's already had the viewer/reader on the edge...
What was djent anyway? The progressive subgenre exploded in the early 2010s before many of the bands disbanded or rejected being labeled after a...
One of the few pearls of wisdom my parents bestowed upon my sibling and I outside those rare moments they weren’t allowing the boob...
If there’s one thing – well, one more thing – we can dump into the lap of the Covid-19 pandemic it’s the amplification of...
The saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas. This adage rings especially true in the riff department, exemplified most recently by Steel Bearing Hand....
Swedish prog metallers Soen released their fifth album Imperial this month. Keeping up a stream of steady releases (Lotus in 2019 and Lykaia in...
Halloween has come early in 2021. Goth rock super couple Anders Manga and Devillia must have taken its cancellation harder than most. Songs of...
Perhaps because the band had to recover, hunker down and hammer it out against the odds, Palimpsest contains some of Protest The Hero's most...
Philadelphia’s unsigned power/folk/progressive metal heroes Lör turned heads in 2017 when their debut, In Forgotten Sleep, shot to the top of Bandcamp’s metal chart...