It seems that every week in 2017 a new progressive death metal album is released that entirely banks […]
Category Archive: Heavy Metal
The first three Obliveon recordings were machinated, beyond psychedelic thrash metal albums with just enough of a corroded […]
When boiling down an album like ‘Upon My Cremation Pyre’ into it’s broadest strokes and deepest minutiae it […]
Seprevation’s debut full-length ‘Consumed’ was a solid death/thrash statement from a band after my own heart. The love […]
There couldn’t be a more awkward way to start this review than to reminisce about the moment I […]
Here I present Part I of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
Canker’s third album is an unavoidably blunt and forceful death metal album that pays tribute to the thrash […]
Pre-hiatus Acephalix was one of the Bay Area’s heaviest crust punk and death metal combinations out there. Groups […]
Archspire are absolutely the kings of relentless technical death metal, but how much of a mutation is their […]
‘Pinching Nerves’ is a minor disappointment after ‘Just the Tip’ offered messy but energetic thrash metal that dipped […]
Neo-Pagan psycho metal. Wait, neo-pagan psycho metal? Where German symphonic progressive death/thrash band Eternal Dirge ended up after […]
Gigan’s fourth full length is their first release that isn’t obsessively fixated on technical showmanship and ear-aching brutality. […]
The initial appeal of Usnea as a sludge/death metal band was their ability to weave in elements of […]
The sound of Night’s third album ‘Raft of the World’ takes further steps towards a proto-metal sound they’d […]
Seeing initially impressive technical death metal bands like Decapitated and Psycroptic slowly progress towards a style of death […]
The first time I heard Decapitated I’d been collecting demo tracks off of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program […]
Doom/death metal and funeral doom are genres created to inspire specific emotional reactions, a sort of catharsis of […]
In creating hyper-focused stylistic choices in the construction of their fourth very retro-thrash album ‘New War Order’ Greek […]
NYN is a one-man progressive death metal project that has apparently finally pieced together a touring band this […]
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