If you asked me to choose a favorite Swedish black metal for all time, I can't promise that this record would win the honors, but I'...

Sideshow Symphonies is one of those rare records that, for whatever reason, I have occasionally forgotten about. Part of that might be that...

With a silly intro urging us to 'Unleash the Beast' and an opening track called "Maximum Satan", you really have to kick s...

I've talked about the color schemes on the different Sentenced albums and how I liked that as a sort of catalogue of the depressing emot...

Stabbing the Drama is the point where I fell off the Soilwork train for awhile; I wasn't terribly impressed with the album when I firs...

While I think I've communicated that a number of Helloween 's later era albums have grown on me through the years, the opposite has ...

All Dead Here... might not turn out to be the final Morgul album, but it was the last before a 15-year absence that continues to the day t...

I'm a sucker for a distinct logo, and Germans Carthaun have one that instantly stood out to me, a little hard to make out at first, b...

It's important to note that I'm coming at Hail Satan in reverse, having already been smitten with both of Drug Honkey 's late...

Force of Evil was a project I had pretty high hopes for back when it was active, largely because I hadn't been truly satisfied with a...

This wouldn't be the first time a Deceased record has grown on me. While 1997's Fearless Undead Machines elicited positive thoug...

Perhaps one of the joys of Werewolf is the duo's irreverent sound and atmosphere, almost as if the tidal wave of raw 90s European bla...

I've always wanted to like Necrophagia a lot more than I actually do. That's not to say that Killjoy hasn't in his own way co...

When it comes to a collection of covers like this one, I'm always more interested in hearing how bands can transform tunes that you mi...

...and onto part two of my three part series on Samael 's most useless recordings, the On Earth EP was the second and I believe last ...

If Nihilistic Contentment suffers from anything at all, it's that the album seems to settle for being a perfect hybrid of the two bef...

I've only run into a few of Bob Egler's albums in the decade since he started churning them out so systematically, and my reaction...

When it was finally hashed out that Lord Worm would be returning to his alma mater of atrocities, I'm sure a lot of people were silent...

Hardly a departure from the direction Beheaded were pursuing with the two previous releases, Ominous Bloodline succeeds because of two i...

One of the finer Spanish death metal institutions alongside Avulsed and Machetazo , Human Mincer have seen a steady improvement thus far...