Album Reviews

By this point, I’m sure my cynicism and disdain towards post-first wave black metal is well documented. I’ve even gone as far to say Darkthrone […]

Last week, a Facebook friend posed the question: Which band drastically fell off after the release of their debut album? The first band that came […]

200 Stab Wounds is the latest death metal band that everybody and their mom can’t stop talking about. I swear, it was like one day […]

Cruz del Sur Music has long piqued my interest. With the exception of maybe an uneven release here or there, this is a label who […]

I have been proudly aboard the L.A. Guns reunion bandwagon from the moment Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns squashed their beef. Their last two albums, […]

There are two types of death/doom bands dominating the scene these days: The maggot infested, gore ridden Autopsy worshippers and the hellish, diabolic, drag you […]

Crazy Lixx is one of the few bands of the 21st century glam metal revival to pump out a catalog that goes toe to toe […]

Considering both metal and gothic rock’s penchant for all things dark, it was only a matter of time before the genres collided, resulting in the […]

I’ve been an ardent follower of Lucifer (the band, not the fallen angel) from the moment they released their first album. That album, appropriately titled […]

The 90s were a time of reinvention for doom metal. 20+ years after accidentally becoming metal’s first subgenre, its subsequent hybridization with death metal (i.e. […]