By all accounts it’d seem Louisville, Kentucky occult heavy metal band Savage Master formed by chance, a mythological… […]
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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 […]
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 […]
You’d have spoke too soon if you’d thought Trevor William Church had hit his stride in 2017 as […]
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, […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of October in the […]
Categorically smothered in a post-Sabbath groove and a sound directly aimed at the occult ‘proto-metal’ era of heavy […]
A certain majority of the artists that previously formed the wave that would resurrect the lanky corpse of […]
Although doom metal had its unsung and malformed heroes in between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland in the […]
Nāḥāš (נחש) the Hebrew word for serpent has been translated by biblical scholars numerous ways as they scramble […]
As the long-dragging Cold War brought state and federally funded scientific incorporation and community to several competing nations […]
Extreme rarity, obscurity and zero provenance offer some of the biggest thrills of collecting where the chase is […]
Formed in 2016 through a mutual love for classic heavy metal, NWOBHM ’82 and the horny hard rock […]
The first ten years of releases from Lee Dorrian‘s still-ripping Rise Above Records might have began with intermittent […]
As Portland’s hand-crafted, artisinal stoner doom scene blossoms like a thousand fluttering 18th century bosoms at a naval […]