The progression from hardcore punk to thrash metal and beyond is often treated as mono-directional flow as if […]
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The seven trumpets, seven natural disaster themed horrors described in the strange fables of the Book of Revelation (CE […]
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 […]
My introduction to the surreal and brutal realm of Slovak extreme metal came first from interest in rare […]
Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]
Chaos is a good place to start when talking about “Blod-draum”, but the songwriting shows great finesse for […]
