The original spirit of heavy metal has undoubtedly taken an infinite number of twists and turns in the decades since its inception, and it’s led to an infinite number of experiences and styles. When it comes to straight heavy metal, … Continue reading Excalibur – Humo Negro
Sweden has always been one of those landmark countries of death metal that will always be saturated with all sorts of death metal. Be it, even more, melo-death from Gothenburg or some new act of whatever style out of Stockholm, … Continue reading Cut Up – Wherever They May Rot
Many, if not most, associate black metal as being intense, powerful, and the sheer embodiment of rage. Yet, as with everything, there’s always people who want to flip the script to shake things up. For black metal, those people created … Continue reading Darkened Winter – Dark Age Warfare
As long as mankind has been able to walk, we’ve always wanted to explore. It’s in our very DNA, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. We’re all explorers at heart. We’ve discovered the forests, the plains, the oceans, … Continue reading Spaceslug – Time Travel Dilemma
Many countries have become with certain kinds of metal over the years. For example, Norway has black metal and Finland gets death metal it would seem. However, what about thrash? I used to think that Brazil would claim to have … Continue reading Amken – Theater of the Absurd
Every so often, there’s a word that gets thrown around way too much in the metal, rock, heavy, etc. industry and it gets extremely old extremely fucking quick. Nowadays, that word is “post”. People just tack it onto every to call something … Continue reading Ordeal & Plight – s/t
Death metal is possibly the most widespread, renowned, and frowned upon the style of metal in the entire fucking world. And, as with all genres, there are titans that simply dominate the genre and always will. Obituary is one of them … Continue reading Obituary – s/t
Jazz has always been one of those styles that I’ve always wanted to get into simply because of how intrinsic and out-of-this-world the music always feels to me. For some reason, can’t get into it. So, maybe some fusion would … Continue reading Nova Collective – The Further Side
Hardly anyone in today’s world of serious music knows how to have true fun anymore. If they do, it’s rarely reflected in the music. Few bands have that garage feel in their music anymore, and if you want that you … Continue reading The Fre3 Bastards – In Our World of Bastards
Just when I think Sweden seemingly can’t produce any more noteworthy bands, I get another few groups thrown at my face. It’s been awhile since that’s happened, but today the country has thrown but one band my way: Evocation. Going … Continue reading Evocation – The Shadow Archetype
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