We get a bit of protest, leering psychedelia, and plenty of existential dread creeping up the clenched neck […]
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Larger than life, but no bigger than the people. — Being considered a “professional amateur” heavy metal band […]
A careful first step away from a well-defined yet entirely tumultuous ‘self’ may not be all that it […]
In times of brutal tyranny, ruthless pestilence, and a pronounced lack of sedition from the populace (beyond self-serving […]
Desperately elite as the term ‘underground’ might appear in a landscape so incredibly equalized by globalized internet usage […]
By all accounts it’d seem Louisville, Kentucky occult heavy metal band Savage Master formed by chance, a mythological… […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
Throughout the ages the history of heavy metal finds many artists consciously visiting ‘big picture’ thematic by way […]
The very concept of being overtly ambitious amidst clichéd parable of over-zealous youth being portrayed as mentally deranged […]
As an early work of fantasy with incredible world-building and a very wise conglomeration of parables from various […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
As civilization dips in and out of periods of unrest, revolution, and distrust with greater frequency the passage […]
‘Fun’ metal just isn’t my thing. If you make constant jokes in reviews, I’ll stop reading. If you […]
For all of the cumulative atomic payload offered by blackened thrash metal’s youthful excess so little of it […]
Arisen in service to the psychic swamp of seventies appreciation in the relative freedom of the mid-nineties came […]
Never one to take a breath without writing a riff the restless hands of Avenger (Nocturnal, Front Beast, […]