Craft was such a cool band to see at the turn of the century because they were already playing this retro brand of necro black metal only a...

It's only a matter of moments into Phoenix Rising until you realize that  Deströyer 666 has raised its intensity level by a considerab...

Three years later, Catharsis Instinct answers some of the production shortcomings of Unbleed , with a louder, fatter, more straightforward m...

Increased Damnation is an interesting fan package which covers a few historical components for Aura Noir, studio and live material for the ...

Macabre 's a band I never get around to revisiting often, but don't let that fool you, I think they're a fairly interesting and ...

It would be nearly a decade before Armored Saint came out of its early retirement, reuniting the Symbol of Salvation lineup and remaining wi...

Necrotical was obviously not meant to be the end of Non Serviam 's trajectory, as they released another single around the turn of the c...

Gardens of Gehenna swapped over to Last Episode for their second recording, and it marked a small if insignificant shift in style as they b...

Germany's long been central to the Gothic metal world (and adjacent styles like Industrial/EBM), but it's always been a double edged...

While it's not as annoying as the two covers before it, the Germans of Sleeping Gods still did not seem to realize the importance of ae...

I absolutely LOATHED Crimson when it first dropped, I thought the band had pushed a little too far into the radio zone and neutered down eve...

The Chainheart Machine isn't so much a major embellishment or evolution upon the style of the debut, but rather a 'tightening' ...

A lot of folks seem to get hung up on the title of this album, as if Helloween was suddenly about to put out a thrash or death metal album ...

Midian was the second album in a row where I felt Cradle was dropping the smutty Gothic vampire Wordsworth mentality to explore some more ...

With all the rage over nasty speed metal acts like Midnight over the last decade, it's a little surprising that Minnesota's Impaler...

Here's another Machine Head EP which was released in a few territories, presumably to sate the demand for more recorded live material...

I always got a sense with Quintessence that Borknagar wanted more of a 'sure thing' alongside their Norwegian peers after the so...

Jurassic Jade has always been one of those fringe Japanese thrash bands that I'd place alongside a Doom, Gargoyle , or an Aion , so c...

By the later 90s, death metal had been inundated with so many more accessible traits via heavy and thrash metal that it might have made a ...

While both of its predecessors were solid, competent entries into Napalm Records' catalog of oft-forgotten black metal recordings, it ...