Void is an album that had sort of the opposite affect on me as its predecessor Fuck the Universe . Here is one that I quite liked upon its ...

Electric Wizard led me to Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats , and I do admit I consider the latter to be an evolution on the other's sound...

This was a weird little ditty to drop between Dawnbringer 's two epic heavy metal albums Nucleus and Into the Lair of the Sun God , sin...

Broken Gravestones is a collaboration between prolific cult growler Kam Lee and several Spanish musicians including Noel Kemper who is know...

Unto the Locust takes the thrashing energy and ambition that the Machine Head crew resurrected from their earlier years as musicians ont...

The Black Procession is a special issue 10" vinyl with three live tracks taken from the two studio albums before it, recording durin...

Folk metal records always make me nervous, as I've come across so many tacky and goofy examples in the genre that seem as if their ent...

Krieg: An Odyssey in Misery brings absolutely nothing new to the butcher's block, but it's an album fairly well made in particula...

I'm years late checking out this four-way split, but as a fan of three of the four French bands participating on my way into it, I fig...

I notice a lot of 'Swede fatigue' when talking shop with my fellow metalheads, but it's hard not to be humbled when a single c...

Another record that seeks to enamor itself to a particular audience before a single note is heard, Thrashumancy instantly claims our atte...

Manchester, England's Ingested released a rare anomaly back in 2009, a slammier death metal album that I actually derived a little en...

Under the Moonlight gets a few things very right, and a few things seriously wrong in the way a lot of Mediterranean region heavy and pow...

I doubt Midnight Priest is a band that would ever shy away from the inevitable comparisons to Mercyful Fate and King Diamond , since tha...

One of the most interesting aspects of New York's Realmbuilder is how, in the construction of their fantastical mythos, they often app...

I've seen discussions which place Ignivomous uncomfortably close to being waived away as an Incantation knockoff, but even though I t...

My heart was hardly broken when Grief of Emerald took a seven year dirt nap, but nor was I really surprised when they returned a half dec...

Posthumous album reviews for newer bands have always been a little strange for me, if only because I feel like I just missed some party th...

Disclosure: I still dislike the All That Perish logo, but this fatter version of it is aesthetically more pleasing than its predecessors, ...

With three tracks eclipsing 15 minutes each, one of which nears the 23 minute mark, EKIMMV is an album that demands a large degree of pat...