I like my metal the way I like my chocolate: dark and bitter. But I also like vanilla pudding, so my awesome mystique is forever tainted and unpure.
Muhammed Suiçmez locks his lonesome self up in a studio, with his guitar, mic and a computer and records one of the most unique and...
This is the defining moment Decapitated have been developing for all these years, each one of the previous albums laying the groundwork for a most...
Brutal death metal legends Suffocation take their act to a somewhat avant-garde area of their sound as they voluntarily switch up from stark atonality to...
Nile hit the scene some time during the mid 90’s, releasing their debut full length here in 1998, making them part of the second wave...
It would be terribly tempting to dismiss this album as being the meandering prog-ish jams from a few metalheads in Sweden that remotely switch from...
Before I attempt to describe this music with as much detail as possible, I would encourage any curious listener out there to think of acquiring...
Nevermore may not be for everyone but what they do offer here is a brand of crossover metal with a wealth of influences pulling the...
The guitarist from 80’s prog metal band ‘Watchtower’ gets together with Cannibal Corpse’s Alex Webster on bass and the drummer for tech prog act ‘Behold...
Hate Eternal don’t exactly play music that could be described as welcoming. This sounds like what be going on at the center of the Earth,...
Few albums are actually as essential to a genre as they implicitly claim. Most seminal records help push the boundaries of their time and reveal...
I’m a little sorry for that review title, it’s a bit of a bitch move admittedly, but hear me out on this. Originally groove/nu-metal band...
Dark Angel are one of the lesser known yet recognized influential bands among death metallers like Cannibal Corpse (Alex Webster mentioning them as a direct influence)...
So there’s this band called Emperor. And on this album, they play a brand of music that could well be described as “imperial sounding” black...
Amon Amarth are difficult to label with just one term. There’s a definite element of death metal in the music, yet simply calling them “death...
Massacre prove brutal death metal was an achievable sound way back in 1991, albeit brutal death in its archaic form with no blast beats and...
The cool thing about the 90’s was bands didn’t have to all sound the same, as the metal influences brewed over the past 80’s decade...
Gorguts return after the natural disaster that was ‘Obscura’. As if that album hadn’t already created enough cosmic damage to our solar system, they’re back...
This delves right into the meat of it: scornful deathgrind with fat power chord grooves, high-energy tremolo picking over blasts, riddled with technical riffing often of...
Hatesphere are one of these Nordic bands that contributed to what could be considered the second wave of Euro melodic death metal after the first...
All aboard the bandwagon. The year is 2003, and everybody wants a piece of the trending melodeath sensation. In places like North America bands were...