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As you may know if you’ve been following the history of the metal genre, doom metal is one of the oldest styles of metal. It’s...

Grindcore is well known for its pounding and unrelenting nature. The explosive drumming, the often primitive and primal delivery of the vocals, the noisy, dissonant...

What a way to celebrate your best album’s anniversary, with a reedition that’s just as great and might even be better in some ways. So...

After hearing this album I couldn’t wait to get this review done. It’s going to be short, but so sweet! And for good reason, because...

Germany’s Panzerkrieg 666 brings us a quick EP of refreshingly straightforward black metal tracks on their debut. Hard hitting and fast with enough variation to...

Pittsburgh’s Mantic Ritual return after thirteen year absence to grace out ears with an album of classic thrash tunes. Heart Set Stone is a rather...

To call the past few years ‘tumultuous’ is a disservice at best and a disaster at worst. With the upending of the music industry going...

Here’s a pretty catchy album that has some good things going for it but rarely rises above being a nice but rather ordinary album. We...

The resurgence of Thrash metal in the last decade or so has certainly had a lot of buzz in the metal community, and you could...

If this was the 16th century, I would probably be accused of heresy, convicted and sentenced to death by the end of this review. In...

Certainly much better than the debut! Only a few weeks ago, the Tasmanian-turned-German devil Patrick Schmidt reached out to me – he had just put...

Here is a pop/metal/unclassifiable album that, while it’s not the most memorable album even for that subgenre, is really enjoyable. Once again, you must listen...

Life is pain. In both immeasurable atrocities and mundane disappointments, there is only acceptance that no one gets out alive, no one escapes without scars,...

Good death metal is a lot like a slab of nicely-cooked steak; if you slice it just the right way, you can look across it...

While one-man bands are a dime a dozen in the bedroom black metal space, and similarly strewn about freely in stoner doom metal, for the...

The Scum are just about exactly what you think of when you read “The Scum”. This is ugly, visceral, right-up-in-your-face death metal, with elements of...

Someone may, for some reason, describe Kriemhild to you as death metal. Perhaps you will glean from the band describing themselves as being influenced by...

Stratuz’s Osculum Pacis can be summarized in one sentiment: almost. Their blend of symphonic death-doom with influences of melodic black metal is almost refined; their...

Last October, French black/death/doom metal trio Varechian has returned from five-year-long slumber, presenting their newest album with double title Tabula Rasa Ultima /// The Morbidoom))),...

One year ago, Swedish one-man project Thundermaker has released its third full-length album The Road via Sliptrick Records, once again inviting a bunch of well-known...