The first test of the waters from a new project featuring recognizable members of other bands is often […]
melodic death metal
Haunted by the rising shared intensity of early 80’s hardcore punk, British heavy metal and the coming red […]
With time the disintegrating and self-shaming hulk of Göteborg’s brief melodic death metal superiority mutates into parody and […]
Appearing as a collective focus from relatively less noteworthy extreme metal projects, Rituals introduce themselves as a late […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of October in the […]
If you’ve already begun to groan at the endless legion of extreme metal lyricists portending the apocalypse is […]
The great defiant king of the Lapiths of Aeolia (ancient Thessaly, Greece) and son of the equally god-defying Phlegyas […]
Among the earliest bands to form within the Caracas, Venezuela area death metal scene of the early 90’s […]
When I first heard Swedish extremists Those Who Bring the Torture back in 2007 I shrugged them off […]
Sorting out the myriad connections between the decades long resumes of the Cleveland, Ohio underground legends that make […]
Few mediums offer outlet for anti-religious and nihilistic philosophy that satisfies on the level of extreme metal. Snapping […]
The earliest works from Geneva, Switzerland melodic black/death metal band Stortregn might have been hyper focused on concentrating […]
Although the big city kids in At the Gates were cooking up world-bending forms of Swedish death metal […]
Outside of a couple of demo only bands in the new millennium and the ever-revered Gorement, very few death […]
No greater unrest exists than that of rabid Swedish melodic death metal fans patiently waiting out the ‘dissolution […]
Swedish death metal label Wrong Again Records was, in hindsight, off to an incredible start in releasing formative […]
Here I present, in no particular order, roughly 30 releases from 2017 that I overlooked or did not […]
This split tape between New York based Ordeals and the intermittently active solo project from current Merrimack bassist […]
Conceived as an outlet for melodic death/doom aspirations a few years after they’d began collaborating in their respective […]
