The legendary traditions of Italian doom metal are deeply ingrained into my brain thanks to innovative masters like […]
Author: terraasymmetry
If Göteborg’s finest boogie-rockers Hypnos’ 2014 self-titled debut gave you the NWOBHM shakes and it’s bluesy hard rockin’ […]
Nothingness, invalidity, and worthlessness can all interpret the meaning of irritum though when I fired up Gridfailure’s shrill […]
An Exhaustive Study: Melodic Black Metal [1991-Present] Part V – Ancient Thrones Conquered (’00-’01)
Here I present Part V of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
Despite how morally questionable it might seem, the spirit of albums like Millennium’s self-titled 1984 debut LP were […]
French death metal band Bloody Sign began as a brutal-yet-technical project that evolved with increasingly experimental vision. The […]
After a decade of honing their blackened bestial thrash metal attack through several demos, a split with fellow […]
Though it seems Affasia were wrought with setbacks and line-up changes over the last six or so years […]
This fledgling Russian death metal band describe themselves “Pure HM-2 sound Old School Death Metal” and that is more […]
The first and only release from South Holland based death/doom band Mourning is a surprisingly overlooked classic sub-genre […]
The debut EP from brand spanking new old school brutal death metal band Voracious Scourge was seemingly birthed […]
Born from the Italian hardcore scene of the mid-00’s this Napalm Death influenced grindcore band have come full […]
Despite a halfway re-staffed line-up, Chicago blackened death metal band Blood of the Wolf retain their notable Marduk […]
If ‘Thrash Zone’ era D.R.I. did a split with ‘Realm of Chaos’ era Bolt Thrower back in 1989 […]
Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus was a long and strange name for a Swedish stoner rock/heavy psych […]
The more I study melodic black metal the more I see it as a fleeting language within modern […]
No matter what era of On Thorns I Lay’s much evolved sound you’ve jumped into across the last […]
If you’re gonna do the whole throwback 80’s hardcore ass crossover thrash thing it has to either carry […]
This Kansas based duo provide an almost academically applied cement to fill the gap betwixt the listless post-rock […]
Formed by the drummer from lesser known Swedish death metal band Afflicted and one of the original, though […]