Formed in Västerbotten area northeastern Sweden circa 2003, as a non-serious ‘black metal parody’ band named Valmer & […]
Nailing some kind of fluid set of connections between specific metal and punk sub-genres is an art with […]
From their point of conception Boston, Massachusetts technical prog-death metal project had been mere collision of concomitant worlds, […]
The blood-smeared sledgehammer of classic grindcore instrumentation has always depended upon structural developments pulled from a hardcore punk […]
Well damn, now that I’m sitting here looking back on the year I spent playing video games it […]
Of all of the limited, misfiring and delusional primate senses I have access to in any given moment […]
What binds a man to his personal artistic vision is as diverse as the contents of his genetic […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of December in the […]
Death metal represents an extreme within heavy metal that can never hope to go ‘mainstream’ for long. No […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Awakening as an unknowing beast, an adept and undying predatory soon-to-be sleuth unleashed within his native London serves […]
To set foot within slippery loam and atop sighing carpets of rainforest moss alike provides the sensation of […]
One could talk of the fifty years of dreary minor key development in the classical music that followed […]
Disenfranchised by the feigned niceties and depravity of the world around him, the fictional author and main character […]
Although I do place some value on the experimentation between the limitations of hard rock structures and extreme […]
The first test of the waters from a new project featuring recognizable members of other bands is often […]
The progression from hardcore punk to thrash metal and beyond is often treated as mono-directional flow as if […]
Enabling the scholar as a self-realized entity rarely sees root without heuristic application. Notions of change and the […]
Like so many other metal sub-genres the defining traits of doom metal have dissolved into meaningless dispute though […]
A dark and looming hunger grew within myself as a pre-teen listening to ‘Altars of Madness’ on cassette. […]
