These Ukrainian post-psych chillaxed, barely rockin’ tripsters use the ripples of thier ocean liner smooth stoner riffing and […]
Category Archive: Heavy Metal
Formed from a collision of Martyrdöd, Bombs of Hades, Miasmal and At the Gates members, Agrimonia defied expectations […]
Though they started as an unusually aggressive melodic death/doom band in the early 2000’s Gathering Darkness made a […]
As a kid my brother’s uninformed and admittedly random purchases from metal and punk mail-order distros often ended […]
If you’d only ever skipped through this Uppsala, Sweden doom metal band’s debut in digital form then you […]
SoCal sludge/doom newcomers Sixes sound confident enough on their rumbling, gravel-toned debut full-length ‘Methisopheles. Their straightforward and minimal […]
This Polish project formed out of the dissolution of Northwail, a black metal band that outgrew their Scandinavian […]
Slam death metal was a movement that found common ground between the brutal death metal coming from New […]
After a decade of cutting their teeth in Firebrand Super Rock the incredible duo of songwriter/guitarist/producer Jamie Gilchrist […]
In my demo hunting and obscure cassette-digging journeys of the early 2000’s I eventually worked my way through […]
Alright seventh album, seven guys, seven songs, seven minutes each, written in the key of uh, seventh notes… […]
The Netherlands had moon-cursing, ice cold black metal in the form of Funeral Winds years before Norway had […]
My introduction to B.Abuse/B-Abuse/[b.abuse] was their 2005 full-length ‘Misery is the Rhythm of This World’ and at the […]
Set into three distinct movements Yhdarl‘s eighth full-length is yet another release from prolific Belgian extreme metal musician Déhà, […]
Old school death metal is a tricky beast to fuck with because so many bands’ toe-dipping into plagiaristic […]
Pillärs are off to an impressive start with their debut full-length that shakes loose like a dinosaur tooth […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of January in the […]
As death and doom metal permutations have evolved back into modern depressive extreme metal fashion so comes a […]
Satan is more-or-less the best still-standing band to come from the NWOBHM movement and their third album found the band with […]
Formerly known as Apathy, the project was forced to rename around 2016 due to legal issues with ownership […]