The progression from hardcore punk to thrash metal and beyond is often treated as mono-directional flow as if […]
retro review
The seven trumpets, seven natural disaster themed horrors described in the strange fables of the Book of Revelation (CE […]
With time the disintegrating and self-shaming hulk of Göteborg’s brief melodic death metal superiority mutates into parody and […]
North Canton, Ohio progressive death/thrash metal underground legends Ripped might have formed under the name R.I.P.T. (Rebellious Intellectual […]
Formed in Nokia, Finland in the late 80’s as a short lived rehearsal only thrash metal band named […]
Throughout the history of French death metal few pockets of lasting impact remain as underappreciated as the short […]
Formed as a supremely grotesque doomed death metal outfit in 1988, Cottbus, Germany project Necrophenistic Nightmare would undergo rapid […]
Nigh pornographically heightened levels of paganistic pride run through this third album from Meerssen, Netherlands extreme thrashers Bifrost […]
The history of this unassuming horror inspired doom metal album would only seem tragic if you’d never spent […]
The East Bay’s most violent answer to the rising tides of thrash metal in the early 80’s came […]
Formed in Keyport, New Jersey as Psychosis in 1987 the untamed spirit of this aptly named death/thrash metal […]
With the technical thrash metal trend in some dissolving demand across Europe post-’88 the arms race for riffs […]
Italian doom metal has a glorious experimental history thanks in no small part to the psychedelic, and oft […]
Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]
No matter how often journalists, aging fans and various other fools tout the vital contributions of Swiss legacy […]
By the end of 1983 Tank had proven they were a swaggering, blow and booze fueled heavy metal […]
Even the most persistent kings of underground heavy metal rarely carry the torch as long as Canberra, Australia […]
Although the big city kids in At the Gates were cooking up world-bending forms of Swedish death metal […]
The old and reliable barometer for what is ‘good’ versus trash in my book of heavy metal has […]
