Whereas so many death metal bands would rent the filth-ridden, doom-driven, old school of animated basement rotting (and […]
Reviews
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
The grinding buzz of a bottom-of-the-ocean tuned bass riff pushed through a couple of nasty distortion pedals is […]
SYNCHRONY is a weekly feature focusing on relevant heavy music news, new releases, upcoming releases, as well as […]
The evolution of Italian death metal band Hour of Penance across twenty years and eight albums is marked […]
Tethered and running in circles, barking at anything and everything out of fear, the three albums deep neg […]
Punks don’t just happen upon enlightenment, right? The long-standing tradition of the reactionary flinging their body, and ‘self’, into […]
This wasn’t a great year for thrash metal, at least not compared to the overwhelming stream of black, […]
‘Kill ‘Em All’ has, for decades, been the exact right introductory dose of opiatic heirophony for distraught punk […]
Here in 2019 I am no less enthused by hype than I was back in 1991 when I […]
THRASH ‘TIL DEATH is a 50 week long set of features exploring the legends who crossed over between […]
Crackling aflame as the mud drips onto their nuclear sun-exposed skin La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland born noise rock/mathcore hybrid […]
Radiant and ablaze in the atmosphere they’d create entirely themselves, the unsoiled magnetism of each successive release from […]
This outrageous time in human history, a globalized and self-destructive mass hysteria taking place across hideous digital fantasy […]
Each of the three Metro series games begins with a life or death situation that doesn’t offer the luxury […]
The sickening power of nostalgia is no double-edged sword, just a nasty shove into the dumpster of self-reflection […]
SYNCHRONY is a weekly feature focusing on relevant heavy music news, new releases, upcoming releases, as well as […]
Obscure is probably the most apt description of where the greater Spanish extreme metal evolution was at back […]
The bronze seer, an augur and haruspex attuned to so diligently to grand-father Apollo that he could divine […]
One of the more fantastic evolutionary journeys to have arisen from the Chicago, Illinois area extreme thrash/death metal […]
