There is some danger in hearkening back to a time when heavy metal had finally ‘proven’ itself as […]
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Any major influential work within an insanely iterative genre has the potential to absorb the achievements of others […]
Now in their lucky thirteenth year of unholy union Hamar, Norway mad butchers Deathhammer state plain as day […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of September in the […]
In getting booted from Antabus in 2013 musician Juho Vaarala has thrived in the move from ‘too-close-to-Russia’ town Imatra […]
The nearly forty year legacy of Satan is supremely inspiring, innovative and tasteful in both retrospect and their […]
In positing instinct and human nature beyond Confucianism’s flighty examinations Mencius [孟子] uses four ‘beginnings’ as examples of […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of August in the […]
In giving the keys to the underground to the largely self-obsessed, tactless millennial crowd the hope is that […]
Through some cosmic kismet or shared lifelong pursuit of classic heavy metal both Traveler and Coronary formed through […]
At first glance you could almost be sure that Spanish metal upstarts Witchfyre are going to be an […]
In the iteration-thirsty, attention-deficit inducing world of extreme metal a span of six years is a literal lifetime […]
By the end of 1983 Tank had proven they were a swaggering, blow and booze fueled heavy metal […]
At some point that itch for traditional heavy metal hits the best of us and, depending on your […]
Formed in 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland of all places Matterhorn are a blast of freshly thrashing air who […]
A clear standout on Shrapnel Records‘ early US power/heavy metal line-up before it became primarily a shred label, Hexx […]
Even if you’ve already dug into this Finnish epic speed/heavy metal band’s output last year the main reason […]
The grand differentiation between Aura Noir and the legion of black/thrash bands that cropped up before, and after, […]
Hailing from the coastal metropolis of Visakhapatnam, India Against Evil connected the dots between classic heavy metal and power […]
Hammering down the finer details of what separates mid-80’s NWOBHM, thrash metal and speed metal ultimately comes down […]
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