As Portland’s hand-crafted, artisinal stoner doom scene blossoms like a thousand fluttering 18th century bosoms at a naval […]
Heavy Metal
If you missed out on Alphastate‘s independently released debut full-length ‘Out of the Black’, it wouldn’t hurt to […]
Though Robespierre tapes would make their way onto the internet as old friends documented their rarities digitally, their […]
Hammering down the finer details of what separates mid-80’s NWOBHM, thrash metal and speed metal ultimately comes down […]
Indiana based throwback heavy metal act Sacred Leather might feature ex-members of extreme metal acts like Coffinworm and […]
Swedish power/thrash metal band Denied healthily represent a sect of metal that I’ve almost defiantly avoided over the […]
Though England is rife with notable export of all sub-genre the kingdom’s contributions to doom metal in the […]
This Vancouver B.C. quartet have evolved from stoned immaculate doom youngsters to self-actualized, forward-leaning heavy metal humanists across […]
As much as I loved this Finnish band’s earthy, basement recorded debut ‘A Call to Arms’ for it’s […]
Of all of the sorely mistreated NWOBHM classics post-1983 Avenger’s debut full-length ‘Blood Sports’ has been the most […]
Despite how morally questionable it might seem, the spirit of albums like Millennium’s self-titled 1984 debut LP were […]
Imagine what sort of double nerd you’d have to be to combine the melodic death metal of mid-to-late […]
If you’d only ever skipped through this Uppsala, Sweden doom metal band’s debut in digital form then you […]
After a decade of cutting their teeth in Firebrand Super Rock the incredible duo of songwriter/guitarist/producer Jamie Gilchrist […]
Satan is more-or-less the best still-standing band to come from the NWOBHM movement and their third album found the band with […]
Ignitor’s sixth full-length comes four years after their notable covers album ‘Mix Tape ’85’ and finds the band’s […]
After a seven year hiatus traditional heavy metal band Lechery have finally released their third full-length and very […]
From the first few bars of “The Doom That Came” one can worm out a unique set of […]
Heidevolk made a huge impression upon the folk metal landscape with their ‘Walhalla Wacht’ record back in 2008 […]
Discussion of personal politics, identity and/or sexuality in terms of music tends to have a way of ultimately […]