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"If this album is a sign of things to come, then High On Fire aren't getting old. They've just become legends."
So after only a scanning a few tracks, I thought this album would produce a very "ho-hum" review. But after a much closer listen...
Ohio's gore metal pioneers Necrophagia have a long, storied, and complicated career in the death metal underground. The band has existed in various incarnations for...
Not that I have immediate bias against artists on Victory Records, because there are a few I really do like, but you pretty much...
Female fronted doom bands are all the rage these days, and for good reason. The juxtaposition of down-tuned lurching metal with soaring female vocals...
There's nothing quite like an album that's pissed off. An album that is so dead set to kill that the first strikes of its...
Tres Cabrones is the second Melvins album in five months, and like its predecessor, Everybody Loves Sausages, there is a bit of stunting involved here. Whereas Sausages focused on a...
Evangelist, noun: one who spreads the gospels of Christ far and wide, with the intention of converting as many new acolytes as possible, by...
Five years between albums is a long time but when you've got a hundred other side projects that's just the way shit rolls. And...
Someone's been listening to their King Diamond. Oh, what the hell… there are so many Venom, Bathory and Celtic Frost clones flitting about – not to mention Sabbath, Slayer and even Blue Oyster...
When trying to talk about Winds of Plague, I'm at a loss for words, as I don't feel that strongly either way. They seem...
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Evil Never Dies, his vinyl debut as Toxic Holocaust, Joel Grind issued a career spanning retrospective (From the Ashes...
It's been three years since Castevet unveiled their debut album, Mounds of Ash. The record received widespread critical acclaim and helped solidify the legitimacy...
One-off collaborations are nothing new to heavy metal. There's no other genre, save hip-hop, that spawns as many side projects and (forgive me for...
It’s hard not to sound like a pretentious, musical snobby doucheface while reviewing a band like Pelican, but I’ll do my best. Pelican is,...
How long can you keep a nostalgia act running and keep it fresh and exciting? Pretty long apparently if you're Warbringer. And even longer...
Is it October in an odd-numbered year? Then it's clearly time for another Skeletonwitch record, right? Ignoring 2004's At One With the Shadows – an easy...
Hypothetically let's say we've taken a record of Ihsahn's overall style from his past four solo records. Let's say this tome contains a fairly...
Motörhead join AC/DC as the two go-to bands that folks mention when they're talking about a band that has essentially churned out the same album over and...
I went out and got my hipster on Sunday at the Treasure Island Festival. I have not shame in this. However, in the process...
For as good as 2011's Scurrlious is, it had MASSIVE footsteps to follow after the band's monumental Fortress. It didn't quite live up to it sadly, and...
There's a lot of hype surrounding Atlantean Kodex's sophomore album, The White Goddess, right now. That's not news in and of itself; in any...
The term "progressive" gets thrown around in heavy metal. There are many progressive bands out there that find a sound that breaks a little...
Instrumental stoner rock is somewhat of an underutilized angle, Earthless and older Karma to Burn being the only exceptions to spring immediately to mind. And since Karma to Burn began...