Four years and one deal with the budding Profound Lore records later, and Dawnbringer returned with a much more professional, refined sound...

Once you've dubbed an album simply Metal , I suppose the only way you can reflect upon yourself any deeper is to finally drop that epony...

I suppose I can give Helloween a little credit for holding off a quarter of a century into their career before slapping us with the lame, o...

Strings to a Web arrives with a lot of technical finesse and modern studio gloss, thanks to Victor Smolski using the album as a sort of expo...

The sole Borknagar album not to appear on Century Media Records, they kept it in the family by putting this one out through the esteemed ...

Going by the name and appearance of this album alone, you'd think Dutchmen  Nailgun Massacre were probably a goregrind band, or at le...

A defunct project by a pair of musicians who between them are responsible for probably half of Greece's underground black metal record...

I'm as enamored of the winter landscape photo as many of the musicians who use them as album covers, but certainly the novelty of the ...

Tenements of Ephemera was a small run release making its way to only a limited audience, so one might have been forgiven in to have misse...

It's not uncommon for a band to specialize and excel in one area, but New York's Blizaro not only specializes in two, but wedges ...

I almost forgot this thing had come out, which is most likely a progposeur crime of monstrous proportions considering how much of a propon...

It's a curious thing to return to that leading edge of the cavernous death metal conglomeration so prevalent at the turn of the 20-tee...

Sarcomancy is a name unknown to many who don't play black in Magic: The Gathering , but also a fairy obscure black metal band out of ...

I've been ruminating a lot lately over the relevance of the live album in the 21st century, or how it pertains to my own life in parti...

The Grotesquery , along with the more primitive Bloodgut , is one of the more conceptual projects assembled with the prolific Swedish deat...

Victims Beyond All Help was originally self-released and passed around the underground a few years back, but is seeing an official CD iss...

Slab of Infinite Butchery lands Horse of Casket firmly in the company of many of its gruesome peers in the 21st century: visually, aesth...

Pagan/black or folk/black metal is not something I cover often enough here, a situation I'll one day hope to rectify, because I'm ...

I'm not sure where my inherent aversion to a lot of sludge metal began, but down through the years I've been turned off by release...

Though I thought the earlier Human Filleted records were decent in their own right, certain flaws in production and the fact that they we...