Heading into the fourth year of their retro speed metal-glazed gig, Sweden’s Tøronto have found strengthened identity in […]
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It doesn’t matter what generation of idiots you’ve been lumped in with, the same societal message persists for […]
Even the most cursory dig through the first wave of underground extreme metal acts in the early 80’s […]
The rattle against he coffin lid at around a hundred beats per minute is not the wings of […]
Whipping raw the corpse of witching satanic speed metal savagery by way of punk-kicked first wave black metal, […]
With the fiery clash of the penitent and the fallen malevolently erupting around me for months now, I’d […]
By all accounts it’d seem Louisville, Kentucky occult heavy metal band Savage Master formed by chance, a mythological… […]
It’d be difficult to describe the grotesque joy of stomach-churning carnage, unrepentant mayhem, and the ‘snap’ of fragile […]
‘Kill ‘Em All’ has, for decades, been the exact right introductory dose of opiatic heirophony for distraught punk […]
This outrageous time in human history, a globalized and self-destructive mass hysteria taking place across hideous digital fantasy […]
Throughout the ages the history of heavy metal finds many artists consciously visiting ‘big picture’ thematic by way […]
The major fallout that comes with any form of gentrification is not only a defeat of the established […]
Glowing as a final ember in a campfire that’d been flung a thousand feet careening through the sky […]
Too often I settle into the too-easy conclusion that it was perhaps ‘Master of Reality’ that sold me […]
You throw off your paper hat after a long day. You’ve sweat through the (already) funny smelling Chinese-made […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
‘Fun’ metal just isn’t my thing. If you make constant jokes in reviews, I’ll stop reading. If you […]
Whatever cyclothymic disorder the greater consciousness of man ever suffered it is easiest to see the present day […]
In the well-padded and often insight-free void of ‘blackened’ heavy metal even the most clever gimmickry fails in […]
THRASH ‘TIL DEATH is a 50 week long set of features exploring the legends who crossed over between […]
