Album Reviews

As the old saying goes, “Better late than never.” That adage couldn’t apply more to Californian death thrashers Laceration, who after 15 years of demos, […]

I must admit that when I first heard the news about a new Scald album, I was quite skeptical. Sure, the cult epic doom outfit […]

It’s wild to think that Chris Slade has been drumming professionally longer than most of us have been alive. That is unless you’re well over […]

I’ve said many a time that if Iron Maiden were to fold after the release of Killers in 1981, their status as metal legends would […]

Isn’t it incredible how the addition of one member can shape the entire trajectory of a band’s musical direction? When Ronnie James Dio joined Black […]

I must say that this has been a banner summer for Indianan metal bands. First Wraith came walloping us with their latest blackened thrash barrage, […]

Contrary to the rampant revisionism polluting the heavy metal internet, Chuck Schuldiner did NOT singlehandedly invent death metal with the release of Death’s debut album, […]

Those who lived through the late ’80s will remember a moment in time when heavy metal and hard rock reached such a fever pitch, that […]

Kryptos are another one of those bands to file in my personally lengthy “heard of, but never listened to” list. I remember first hearing their […]

I’ve always had a complex relationship with US black metal. Sure, I’ll always bow at the altar of NME (yes, Unholy Death IS the first […]