Though this mysterious avant-black Canadian trio is often described as discordant and strangely dissonant, the more I listen […]
Category Archive: Heavy Metal
Kawir is one of the more notable long running projects from the early days of Greece’s infamous black […]
“Paradise Envenomed” is essentially the first song this UK based death metal band has recorded with their new […]
As interesting and frightfully alien as Icelandic black metal has been so far, I don’t think many bands […]
Procession have always been a consistent and polished doom troop that fly their true metal flag high with […]
The first two Acid Witch albums are some of my favorite less-than-serious death metal that doesn’t come across […]
Not long after discovering Pentagram and Sadism, two of Chile’s finest and most important death/thrash metal bands I […]
No matter how many times the finger-wagging culture of the United States reminds its citizens to not judge […]
Here I present Part II of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
While I am a huge fan of classic sludge metal like Eyehategod, Crowbar, Neurosis and early Melvins I more or […]
Whether or not their name pays tribute to Utah’s deserts or southern Westeros, these Norwegian heavy psych/stoner rock […]
Well over a decade ago I’d discovered Czech and Slovakian death metal while digging through tape/LP rips and […]
Death metal ‘authenticity’ scarcely matters to the general audience the genre speaks to primarily because it is so […]
Around 2004 the craziest shit happened while I was looking for poorly transferred, obscure NWOBHM singles to impress […]
The latest from this unassuming Arizona based doom metal band is one of the biggest surprises of the […]
This heavy and inspired Australian doom/stoner metal band owes a lot to the best of Cathedral, before Dorrian […]
The muttering stagnation of Enslaved’s increasingly progressive sound is an argument for the ‘metal mind’ versus the ‘progressive […]
I have what I like to call ‘vampire dog‘ teeth. Sharp incisors that ride a little higher on […]
Swiss death metal band Messiah’s third album showcased an impressive professional transformation as the band’s unusual style finally […]
Funeral doom metal’s inception was initially an otherworldly minimalist take on the overly romanticized Peaceville style death/doom movement. […]
