Raised by rabid environmentalists with a taste for the eastern Oregon high desert in the summers, the only […]
speed metal
In love with the first wave of black metal and resembling its concurrent influence upon Teutonic thrash metal […]
For all of the cumulative atomic payload offered by blackened thrash metal’s youthful excess so little of it […]
The popularity and in turn widespread influence of German speed and thrash metal isn’t as simple to delineate […]
When bombarded by the endless streams of world class heavy metal releases that amount to far more than […]
The glittering, catchy, reverb-drunk super-80’s puritanical heavy metal wail of Toronto’s answer to White Wizzard and Enforcer isn’t […]
There is some danger in hearkening back to a time when heavy metal had finally ‘proven’ itself as […]
Any major influential work within an insanely iterative genre has the potential to absorb the achievements of others […]
Now in their lucky thirteenth year of unholy union Hamar, Norway mad butchers Deathhammer state plain as day […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of September in the […]
In getting booted from Antabus in 2013 musician Juho Vaarala has thrived in the move from ‘too-close-to-Russia’ town Imatra […]
The nearly forty year legacy of Satan is supremely inspiring, innovative and tasteful in both retrospect and their […]
In positing instinct and human nature beyond Confucianism’s flighty examinations Mencius [孟子] uses four ‘beginnings’ as examples of […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of August in the […]
In giving the keys to the underground to the largely self-obsessed, tactless millennial crowd the hope is that […]
Through some cosmic kismet or shared lifelong pursuit of classic heavy metal both Traveler and Coronary formed through […]
At first glance you could almost be sure that Spanish metal upstarts Witchfyre are going to be an […]
In the iteration-thirsty, attention-deficit inducing world of extreme metal a span of six years is a literal lifetime […]
By the end of 1983 Tank had proven they were a swaggering, blow and booze fueled heavy metal […]
At some point that itch for traditional heavy metal hits the best of us and, depending on your […]
