The name Dark Funeral itself carries so much weight and respect in the metal world that it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t at least respect one of the biggest, most well known black metal band of all time. I, … Continue reading Dark Funeral – Where Shadows Forever Reign
So the day has come. People who pay any attention to Hellyeah they know that the band is confident in saying that this album will return to their metal roots much more than “Blood For Blood” did. A bold statement … Continue reading Hellyeah – Unden!able
The instant you see something as dark and foreboding as that piece right there, you know you’re about to set foot in some raw shit so you dive head first right into the blaze. Rooted in the harsh and unforgiving … Continue reading ColdBlood – Indescribable Physiognomy of the Devil
For every genre of any kind of music in existence there lies an inner circle of larger, yet mostly unknown, bands that have literally tens upon thousands of fans but are nowhere near large enough to be instantly known if … Continue reading Suicidal Angels – Division of Blood
To me, folk metal needs to be the level of fantasy that can stand toe to toe with Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, that kind of shit. Not this weak crap that’s just people running around a fire … Continue reading Winterhymn – Blood & Shadow
When you are trying to make something atmospheric I believe you are going to need more than the conventional instruments used in metal to create something that truly stacks up. Sojourner proved over a year ago with their first song … Continue reading Sojourner – Empires of Ash
That weird thing of gothic metal has always been a kind of “eh” thing to me in the metal world as to me it just always seems so . . . uninteresting. Maybe mixing it with something would work? With … Continue reading The Foreshadowing – Seven Heads Ten Horns
How much is too much? When the end result sounds like a fucking mess is when you know it’s too much. I thought that might happen with Doomicidal’s debut EP “Spawned in Hell”, but much to my pleasant surprise I … Continue reading Doomicidal – Spawned in Hell
Sometimes not being able to let go of the past isn’t always a completely bad thing. For example: if you know what metal was like in the 80s and 90s you’d know how raw and brutal everything was in the … Continue reading Armagh – Venomous Frost
When you’re a hardcore band looking to be a good hardcore band you need to do more than just try to be heavy with an aggressive anger seeping through every piece of the music. You gotta make it interesting, make it grab … Continue reading Poison Headache – s/t
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