Black Thrash Attack might have taken its foot of the brakes, but the full length Aura Noir sophomore Deep Tracts of Hell nearly crashes o...

If Necrotical surpasses the Non Serviam debut in any way, it's that it just remembers to rock your face off much harder; the way they...

The artwork for the second Golem , while equally as cheesy as the first, seems a lot more innocuous, and its cosmic orientation gives off th...

I've never been able to pronounce this German black metal band's name, and I'm not about to start now, but they were another vic...

The cover to the Heavenwood sophomore always freaked me out, I mean not so much the devouring of the reptilian tail and possibly its owner ...

I could not remember this band's name for the longest time. When I first flirted with the idea of covering some Gothic metal stuff for a...

Frozen marks the first time that Sentenced had really and truly found a lane that they decided to stay with. Whereas Shadows from the Past...

Three years, three albums released, but by the time At Dusk and Forever dropped it became tearfully clear that Gates of Isthar might not e...

Berzerk 2000 hit me as quite a shock, as I found the Scheitan debut to be quite satisfactory and would not have expected them to pivot the...

By the later 90s, metal fans the world over were in such a froth over At the Gates ' seminal Slaughter of the Soul that the Swedes had ...

By the time Nightwork came along, Diabolical Masquerade was already this underappreciated, quality Swedish black metal export, especially ...

Killengod 's obscure sophomore album comes across quite different up front. Gone are the weird, surreal alien things from the debut'...

Holocausto de la Morte was kind of a big deal since it saw Killjoy and Necrophagia resurrected from the dead, and although it carries many...

Even though the haze of nostalgia in my brain always equates this band with my favorite season of the year, the Autumn, I've realized th...

XIII is one of a few Rage albums at the close of the 90s upon which the group decided to lean very heavily on their symphonic influences a...

And because the three relatively useless versions of the In Vain EP were not enough, there was this fourth version, Rage in Acoustic , whic...

The In Vain EP is part follow-up to the 1996 Lingua Mortis album, which featured the Germans playing alongside the Symphonic Orchestra Prag...

Despite its introduction of Simen Hestnæs, I.C.S. Vortex, into the Borknagar lineup, and onto the radars of metal fans the world over, Th...

The idea of a fantastical melodic death metal band promoted a form of promising escapism that was uncommon within its niche in the 90s, al...

Much as The Graveyard proved the nadir to all those things King Diamond , an uninspired and pitifully bland paragon of career exhaustion,...