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What is the sound of death metal in 2014? With all of the cross-pollination that's happened over the past 10 years, it can be...
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What is the sound of death metal in 2014? With all of the cross-pollination that's happened over the past 10 years, it can be...
Lacuna Coil has generally stuck with their strengths in the mainstream with their brand of gothic metal without drifting too much into uncharted territory....
Death metal has morphed and grown a lot over the past thirty or so years, with plenty of bands trying to push the envelope...
Andrew W.K., with his self-help speeches and spontaneous one-man shows, is widely recognized in the mainstream media as the go-to expert when you want...
Hammer of the Witch brutalizes a message of extreme measure, driving home the ethos of Ringworm's hometown, Cleveland, a better dead than dying philosophy.
My own journey with Louisiana's Thou kicked off after 2008's Peasant quickly established itself as one of that year's most pleasant surprises (I straight slept on the previous...
Back in 2011, Austin Lunn, the mastermind behind one-man black metal project Panopticon, was studying zymurgy in Norway to prepare for the opening of his Hammerheart...
I'll just come out and say it: The Oath is a nearly picture-perfect, no nonsense heavy metal album. On their debut album, The Oath...
The Joy of Motion is everything Weightless should have been and wasn't.
With a name like Ass to Mouth one can't help but be called back to watching Kevin Smith's Clerks 2 where you learned that...
If you've been fortunate enough to see Gojira live, then you may already understand the intensity of watching one of the greatest live performances...
Orcultus is a band that would like to remain anonymous. So there’s your history. And yeah, that’s really it.
For a lot of people, one of the enduring attractions to heavy metal is the technical proficiency many of the genre's musicians possess. Without...
Oblation – noun \ə-ˈblā-shən, ō-\ – defined as "to make a religious offering or an offering of devotion", in this case the first new...
Across the spectrum in today's metal scene there are albums done with computers, triggers, effects, and a ton of studio tinkering, and then there...
Heavy metal music has a spirit all its own. Many bands reach for this feeling, but only some bleed it from every note they...
When one looks out across the heavy metal landscape and examines the commons threads, it's clear that the "Doom" variety of our beloved genre...
The genres of heavy metal have been splintering ever since Iommi hit those first chords forty four years ago. Pseudo industrial hardcore christian dubstep...
Grindcore has a storied history, one which ties together otherwise disparate factions of punks and metalheads and has set the precedent for just how...
There is definitely something really honorable about Carnifex, in how they are fine with their label of deathcore and seem to have no problem...
There is music that is meant to comfort us, music meant to disturb us, and music meant to impale our senses with the cold...
Another masterstroke release from Bindrune Recordings, Germany's Waldgeflüster return with an album three years in the making. Called Meine Fesseln, one man mastermind Winterherz...
