With the technical thrash metal trend in some dissolving demand across Europe post-’88 the arms race for riffs […]
In giving the keys to the underground to the largely self-obsessed, tactless millennial crowd the hope is that […]
In granting one’s self the True Will, a ‘nirvana’ of sorts achieved through Crowley‘s Thelemic mysticism, the road […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
At face value it would seem the dissolution of promising Portland, Oregon heavy metal legends Spellcaster in 2017 was […]
Two of the heaviest sludge bands to rocket up into Relapse Records‘ crypt as of late offer a […]
Among the earliest bands to form within the Caracas, Venezuela area death metal scene of the early 90’s […]
Raised on ‘traditional’ death metal ideals and put to task in various technical, melodic and deathgrind projects along […]
First known for his founding of notable depressive black metal project Austere in the early-to-mid 2000’s Desolate (aka M. […]
Originally forged as an unholy alliance between ex-members of Australian underground extreme metal legends Bestial Warlust and Abominator […]
BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” blog feature focusing on how I’m progressing through […]
In researching the disturbing history of colonization and cultural eradication of the greater Los Angeles area native peoples […]
Italian doom metal has a glorious experimental history thanks in no small part to the psychedelic, and oft […]
Hailing from the long celebrated blackened port of Bergen, Norway this young and optimistic thrash metal crew arrive […]
Alcohol and I first met back in 1996 at a small impromptu teenaged house party where I was […]
Without shared purpose or true common sense humanity moves towards a sincere and resigned obliteration. In becoming increasingly […]
In lieu of becoming too redundant with my appraisal of the Sunlight Studios/Boss HM-2 guitar pedal sound popularized […]
Despite how much any unemployed pop culture historian argues for the validity and importance of various niche genre […]
When I first heard Swedish extremists Those Who Bring the Torture back in 2007 I shrugged them off […]
Nāḥāš (נחש) the Hebrew word for serpent has been translated by biblical scholars numerous ways as they scramble […]
