Montreal’s Show of Bedlam sound like a mix of Neurosis, Oathbreaker, and Swans. Their sophomore album, Transfiguration, is full of odd sound clips, industrial influence, and extreme dissonance that add up to a [...]
2017 has seen plenty of newcomer death metal bands that break the mold. Artificial Brain, Aeternam, Sunless, The Ominous Circle, and Tomb Mold have all given some grizzly and forward-thinking offerings. Venenum joins [...]
Ah, brutal death metal, one of metal’s most tenacious and consistent institutions. It seems like every year, despite the genre being firmly out of style, metal listeners receive an absurdly monumental serving of it [...]
Thrash metal is an easy genre to fake. It’s writable by people without any training or even an ear for good music and it’s playable by sloppy musicians. This is why thrash is an oversaturated market. The 80s and 90s [...]
A genre is lucky if it exists long enough to look back on itself. Metal has spent the last decade or so cranking out throwback acts, and while most of them fall on the spectrum from “passable” to “absolutely boring,” [...]
Planning For Burial creates a somber amalgam of post-rock, noise, shoegaze, doom and black metal on their newest album, Below The House. A warning for anyone reading: this is not easy listening by any means. This is [...]
Swedish death metal outfit Evocation formed in 1991 during the bombastic beginnings of the Swedish death metal scene. Their promising early demos earned them opening slots with other soon-to-be death metal legends [...]
The black cloud of hate that has followed metalcore and deathcore since the early 2000s is finally starting to dissipate. Metalheads are dropping the elitism when it comes to these genres more and more. Who would have [...]
