The individual roads of punk and metal have always been very close to each other, almost inches apart as you can seldom hear bands that aren’t influenced by the other side in some form. And that’s not even including the … Continue reading Victims – The Horse and Sparrow Theory
It’s the taste of something larger than life that what drives many fans of fantasy to the genre as very few things is more fun to imagine up than tales that could never possibly happen that are simply rife with … Continue reading Stone Sovereign – Tales of Myth & Madness
War is a topic that we will never be able to escape, and I firmly believe there will never be a style of music out there that doesn’t bring the reality of war whether from present or past conflicts to … Continue reading Mofsed – Rattenkrieg!
Bursting forth with riffs in one hand and a joint in the other is the sort of thing that many bands have made a decent following out of, especially in recent years with the stoner strains of rock and doom … Continue reading EnFire – Juniper Landing
Of all the trends that we’ve seen on the rise in the world of metal in recent years, it’s the sudden jump in the number of bands fronted by women who are given attention almost exclusively for that sometimes. I’ve … Continue reading Kings Winter – Forging the Cataclysm
Anyone who has investigated even a little into the current state of rock, not to mention the decades of releases, knows that there have been and will continue to be many, many iterations of the classic sound that will, somehow, … Continue reading Lightning Born – s/t
To scrounge across the very underground of the metal scene itself means to trudge through a lot of material that lacks so much, but there is always glory to be found if you look close enough. It may not be … Continue reading Cepaluss – Death Fantasies Rise
There are very few styles across all of metal that are as varied as black metal, and even then, just the term of “atmospheric black metal” covers an immeasurably wide swathe of material as so many bands have morphed the … Continue reading Orquìlux – The Sunset of My Last Breath
It’s every now and then that we get the occasional album that becomes more of an experience than a mere collection of songs consisting of riffs and melodies. There’s real passion put into these exceptional works and it’s a real … Continue reading Kha.wis – Life Oscillation
There has long been a sentiment for the “golden years” of rock and metal as that’s where we typically think of whenever we imagine the legendary albums that still come to define our tastes no matter how diverse, simplistic, or … Continue reading Tanith – In Another Time
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