The sound of Night’s third album ‘Raft of the World’ takes further steps towards a proto-metal sound they’d […]
Seeing initially impressive technical death metal bands like Decapitated and Psycroptic slowly progress towards a style of death […]
The first time I heard Decapitated I’d been collecting demo tracks off of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program […]
Doom/death metal and funeral doom are genres created to inspire specific emotional reactions, a sort of catharsis of […]
In creating hyper-focused stylistic choices in the construction of their fourth very retro-thrash album ‘New War Order’ Greek […]
NYN is a one-man progressive death metal project that has apparently finally pieced together a touring band this […]
In the earliest days of my researching proto-metal, NWOBHM and the hard rock groups that inspired the world-changing […]
‘Burning Child’ finds underdog Danish speed metal band Encyrcle taking what I’d consider a “pure metal” detour on […]
A very short while ago, before the age of all digital releases was a reality upon us, it […]
In their ninth year as a band Tombstalker are in a good place. Their crusty, sloppy debut album […]
‘Deranged Pagan Sons’ is the best Cardinal’s Folly album yet. Hey they still sound way too much like […]
After snatching up their previous three albums and seeing the band live, I felt like I could call […]
After several years of obsessing over classic thrash metal, reading every review and tracking down every album listed […]
You know how fine dining focused television shows offer glimpses into the minutiae of flavor infusion elements? No? […]
On their fourth full-length Swedes Portrait are sounding more 80’s power metal than ever as they polish up […]
While Incantation lost their relevance back in the early 00’s, the band experienced a sort of renaissance with […]
Texas based black/death metal band Nexul has edged away from their more bestial-black/war metal influence sound into a […]
Alan and Terry Jones’ Pagan Altar had something special in their hands from their inception in 1977. Pagan […]
I haven’t been a huge Unique Leader follower for several years. Kinda liked the Omnihility record from last […]
The shortest possible personal history of Final Fantasy I could give is to simply state that I’ve been abused mercilessly […]