Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
2017
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You know how fine dining focused television shows offer glimpses into the minutiae of flavor infusion elements? No? […]
On their fourth full-length Swedes Portrait are sounding more 80’s power metal than ever as they polish up […]
While Incantation lost their relevance back in the early 00’s, the band experienced a sort of renaissance with […]
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