The progression from hardcore punk to thrash metal and beyond is often treated as mono-directional flow as if […]
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Never one to take a breath without writing a riff the restless hands of Avenger (Nocturnal, Front Beast, […]
Formed as a supremely grotesque doomed death metal outfit in 1988, Cottbus, Germany project Necrophenistic Nightmare would undergo rapid […]
In the throes of any detailed exploration of the melodic black metal sub-genre it becomes impossible to avoid […]
In bearing witness to the increasing violence created by record-setting storms across the world humanity appears dumbfounded despite […]
The second full-length from German crust-informed black metal act Hermann merely refines a conceptual unity among four members of Berlin’s […]
Musician Christian Kolf‘s long running and oft experimental side-project Owl featuring ex-Valborg bandmate and former Centaurus-A drummer Patrick […]
One might argue that for the first half-decade of Mors Dalos Ra aka Mors Dalos Hessam O Din Ra aka Dalos […]
With the technical thrash metal trend in some dissolving demand across Europe post-’88 the arms race for riffs […]
From the first blast to last ringing chord Pestlegion confidently pursue the purist’s perfect re-birth of second wave […]
German black/death trio Finis arrive in ghostly form without name or face. Postulating the value of letting their […]
Standard as the melodic death/doom metal of Pierre Laube‘s Doomed may appear across six full-lengths his take on the […]
The old and reliable barometer for what is ‘good’ versus trash in my book of heavy metal has […]
Extreme doom metal often carries with it some amount of work on the part of the listener. Be […]
Reeking of nihilism, blasphemy and a nominal essence of early Grave German death metal band Abythic were harried […]
The generations of stoner metal and doom bands influenced by Sleep‘s ‘Volume 1’ and Electric Wizard‘s ‘Dopethrone’ are […]
You love Tank, right? You know, that NWOBHM band that everyone always forgets about and only seems to […]
Obnoxious began as a progressive thrash metal band in Remscheid, Germany back in 1989. Their impossible to find […]
With no great knowledge of Valborg until 2017 I was pulled into the eclectic world of Christian Kolf‘s […]
For all of the slightly rough edges of their viking-era Bathory inspired sound Isgalder achieve value far beyond […]
