For nearly two decades, Bitterness has been a beacon for the preservation of traditional Thrash Metal around the world. Now, the south German thrash machine...
By 1986, German power metal was still yet to achieve the solidification of its identity. Before that year, bands were playing in a heavily NWOBHM-inspired...
Motivated by the radio success of “Down to the Earth,” Ritchie Blackmore renewed his line-up with the incorporations of Joe Lynn Turner (vocals) and Bob...
Katatonia‘s story is quite similar to their countrymen Opeth one: started as very depressive Doom/Death Metal, the band strived to make their sound softener, Jonas...
Please just take me away to Never, Neverland Think about it – how many Annihilator albums do you love from start to finish? How many...
After three long years, The Black Dahlia Murder returns with their most ambitious album to date. Opening a new chapter in their illustrious career, the...
I’ll try to make this as short and sweet as I possibly can, but first I’d like to take a step out from behind the...
My first encounter with Telepathy was at Desertfest and the cosy confines of The Devonshire Arms – or simply The Dev to regulars. With four...
With a crushing sound spawned straight from the bowels of hell, Germany’s Depravation return with an album filled to the brim with Metal mayhem. Taking...
Witness the birth of DreamGrind. Mixing ethereal beauty with harmonic dissonance, Azusa explore new sonic ground with their sophomore release, Loop of Yesterdays. An auditory...
With four scabrous black metal cuts cocooned into this searing EP, Downcross are as ever in no mood to play games. The Minsk men generated...
From Anaheim California comes Voices of Ruin, with possibly the most rock solid album that I’ve heard in a very long time. Path to Immortality...
This is a nice catchy and energetic melodic death metal album. OK, so maybe some of you might find this too poppy and too generic,...
Portugal’s Sacred Sin returns with three furious death metal tracks. Born Suffer Die provides a small taste of the capabilities of the group, including the...
In 2012 multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Tuomas Saukkonen closed all his numerous music projects to focus only on the single one. Then Wolfheart was born,...
“Beast broken by time… “ Along Paradise Lost and Anathema, My Dying Bride stands as a monolith in the UK doom metal triumvirate in the...
Fuzz is one of the earliest forms of artificially created distortion to be used on the guitar. Over the years the sound has changed drastically...
It is an interesting task to attempt to recreate the past while reaching forward. Really it is the main objective of almost the entire stoner...
Emerging from the dark woods of Washington comes Vaar and their short, but sweet 15-minute EP, aptly titled As Dusk Fell. With only 3 tracks,...
While often frowned upon by Death Metal purists, you have to admit that the Melodic Death Metal scene has bestowed some amazing material on us....