I like black metal. I like folk and pagan influences on black metal. I like these influences making their presence known in softer, open interludes within...
Even if you haven’t had the pleasure of perusing Tero Ikäheimonen’s excellent history of Finnish black metal, The Devil’s Cradle, it rapidly becomes obvious that this...
20 years ago, on June 20, 2000, the Deftones released White Pony and made an impact on the word of metal that sent ripples across the...
“I could be your doom-boy. We could hold hands. And listen to Slayer in the back of my Dodge Caravan.” A minute into song one on...
For those who weren’t fortunate to be around, the late ‘60s and early ‘70s were a wonderful time to be a young music fan. There was...
Prior to relocating to Knoxville, co-founding Black Eyed Soul singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Marcus, already had established himself as a sought-out collaborator and producer — with...
I have had many reasons to be grateful to Eisenwald in 2020. I’ve folksy grooved to Osi and The Jupiter, railed with black metal fury at...
Soilwork has always been, in my mind, the overlooked gem in the Swedish melodic death metal crown. That’s not to say that they haven’t been successful...
In a fashion similar to when Van Halen erupted in the late ‘70s and Guns N’ Roses exploded in the mid-‘80s, Rage Against The Machine stirred...
As an unclad, staccato synth melody arrives without fanfare, the immediate sensation upon the commencement of Pharaoh Overlord’s latest offering is one of warm, electronic minimalism...
A lot of bands progress and mature in their songwriting, sometimes for the better, but mostly for worse. Whether they do it for mass appeal, thus...
There are times at the crossroads of life when an act pops out of nowhere and is the living concept of what you’re going through and...
Deeds of Flesh are joined by a star-studded extreme metal list for 'Nucleus' their ninth studio album. Read our thoughts on the album here:
Many remember Reb Beach from his days in Winger, Dokken, Alice Cooper, Night Ranger, or, more recently, with Whitesnake, but what a lot of people don’t...
The Cloven Hand, a deviant electronic nightmare by Zebadiah Crowe, is only the first chapter in two EP releases. Drawing from their previous album, Host Rider...