This EP marks a changing point for Sigh, a Japanese band with roots in black and doom metal and aspirations to psychedelia, orchestralia and everything in between. Here begins the play with structure and sound, […]
There are a lot of stereotypical roles for women in metal, whether they are the operatic Diva providing some archetypal “beauty” to the “beast” of the traditional metal sound, or providing orchestral or keyboard textures […]
Magnum Carnage’s “More Unreal than a Box of Precious Metal and Radioactive Ore” is an incredibly nostalgic record for me. Spinning this record takes me right back to the dim glow of my room in […]
The great thing about Kilt. is their vague familiarity – on their debut album, Everything/Nothing, an attentive listener can hear vague traces of other established metal acts, whether with the downtuned rhythm guitar pulse that […]
A new Ihsahn album is always something of an event. By the time Emperor had reached their last album, the band was basically an extreme vehicle for the musical avenues Ihsahn had explored with Thou […]
It’s true that we’re reviewing this disc a bit late – 2012 came out in 2008 as the first offering from Vyrmn, mostly a solo project by R. Ashley III. But the EP is a […]
Dynahead’s latest release, Antigen is a curious release. At times the band focuses their intensity into pure progressive thrash – nothing terrible but quite similar to things we’ve heard before, almost as though Meshuggah and […]
I wrote a few weeks ago on these pages about Velvet Cacoon’s other release of this year, “Atropine,” which was well-hyped with plenty of unprovable mystique about source tapes being buried for years before completion, […]
The funny thing about anticipation in music is how little a band can actually contribute to the anticipation to still make it strong. Within the metal scene, all a band needs to say is that […]
When it comes to metal and heavy music in general, fans are pretty used to the idea of a band that, at best, changes or re-arranges elements of their formula, and at worst sells out, […]
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