Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
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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 […]
In the earliest days of my researching proto-metal, NWOBHM and the hard rock groups that inspired the world-changing […]
‘Burning Child’ finds underdog Danish speed metal band Encyrcle taking what I’d consider a “pure metal” detour on […]
In their ninth year as a band Tombstalker are in a good place. Their crusty, sloppy debut album […]
‘Deranged Pagan Sons’ is the best Cardinal’s Folly album yet. Hey they still sound way too much like […]
After snatching up their previous three albums and seeing the band live, I felt like I could call […]
After several years of obsessing over classic thrash metal, reading every review and tracking down every album listed […]
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