Seprevation’s debut full-length ‘Consumed’ was a solid death/thrash statement from a band after my own heart. The love […]
There couldn’t be a more awkward way to start this review than to reminisce about the moment I […]
Here I present Part I of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
Canker’s third album is an unavoidably blunt and forceful death metal album that pays tribute to the thrash […]
Pre-hiatus Acephalix was one of the Bay Area’s heaviest crust punk and death metal combinations out there. Groups […]
Archspire are absolutely the kings of relentless technical death metal, but how much of a mutation is their […]
‘Pinching Nerves’ is a minor disappointment after ‘Just the Tip’ offered messy but energetic thrash metal that dipped […]
Neo-Pagan psycho metal. Wait, neo-pagan psycho metal? Where German symphonic progressive death/thrash band Eternal Dirge ended up after […]
Gigan’s fourth full length is their first release that isn’t obsessively fixated on technical showmanship and ear-aching brutality. […]
The initial appeal of Usnea as a sludge/death metal band was their ability to weave in elements of […]
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 […]
