Another brilliant doom metal album in a veritable sea of excess releases. It’s a blessing and a damn […]
Category Archive: Heavy Metal
Crossover thrash was my first true love in terms of transitioning from hardcore punk obsessive teenager to hilariously […]
It was a year of strife for most Americans and chaos for most of the world as fascism […]
Finland’s innovative contributions to second wave black metal are often underappreciated when compared to their Scandinavian neighbors and […]
Ah, the ancient ones have been whittled down to the ancient two yet there isn’t a better feeling […]
Taake’s ‘…Doedskvad’ was a revelation in 2005 as it combined the majesty and precision of Emperor‘s later era […]
‘Ornuthi Thalassa’ the debut album from Serpent Column is a masterwork of modern black metal inspired music. It remains […]
Paul Chain is dead. Or let’s say his gentrified stage/band name from the late 70’s until 2003 was […]
In their twentieth year of existence it would be easy to mistake Domgård for yet another re-envisioned take on […]
Swedish sludge metal band Signo Rojo’s self-titled debut back in 2011 was a somewhat green full-length showcasing some […]
At some point loving a time tested sub-genre of heavy metal like thrash metal or doom causes one […]
The initial appeal of Aosoth’s early works were admittedly their stripped down approach to Deathspell Omega‘s style of […]
I’ve been a fan of these guys from the earliest days of Runemagick‘s melodic black/death metal to their […]
The ghost lights, funereal phantoms seen from afar, the flickering will-o’-the-wisps haunting distant graveyards at night. Those lost […]
Give the average industrial metal listener a million layers of atmospheric synth and a heavy death/doom riff and […]
Initially formed as a revival of cult Swedish death metal demo kings Nirvana 2002 around 2012, Under the […]
This ex-Montreal now-Vancouver stoner metal gaggle show great confidence in kicking their sophomore album off with a powerful […]
When I typically compile lists of music releases I tend to get a bit lost in the dissonance […]
After a strange, ham-fisted and very unbalanced debut EP Heir are back with an inexplicably polished and well-dressed […]
Krallice have more recently taken themselves to task as one of the more interesting bands exploring the ‘technical’ […]
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