When listening to Visigoth’s follow-up to 2015’s The Revenant King, the comparably shorter length is more than likely the first thing you’ll notice. Conqueror’s Oath is about twenty minutes shorter than its predecessor and there are only three songs that [...]
It feels rather early for White Wizzard to be in the “comeback” phase of their career. The group has been around for just over a decade, yet they’ve already endured as many setbacks and lineup changes as bands like Megadeth and Iced Earth did in twice the [...]
Aside from being my new least favorite band name to Google, Haunt is a one-man project helmed by Beastmaker guitarist/vocalist Trevor William Church. While Beastmaker and Church’s past bands have always been more on the doom side, Haunt aims for a more [...]
Other bands in the oddly specific wave of metal music inspired by King Diamond (The NWOKDHM?) have showed signs of expanding their influences, but Germany’s Attic found an even deeper way to express their sole admiration for the Danish prince of darkness. [...]
The early to mid-80s are seen as a simpler time for heavy metal, but it might be more appropriate to say that things were just more ambiguous back then. It was a time when extremities were developing beyond their infancy but descriptors like black and [...]
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,” the trend has still produced some [...]
NWOBHM is an interesting subgenre - it stands for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, best exemplified by now legendary acts such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Diamond Head. But, not unlike Swedish death metal, it’s developed into a [...]
Icarus Witch was one of the more promising up-and-comers in the mid-2000s. In hindsight, albums like Capture the Magic and Songs for the Lost showed them at the forefront of the occult rock and traditional metal revivalist movement while never fully [...]
