The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art seems like a pretty huge step forward for a sophomore outing, trading in the brash (if appreciable) o...

Condemned to Misery continues to act as an amalgamation of the same familiar influences that defined the Skeletal Remains debut, but that...

Arriving a decade after Sideshow Symphonies , I recall Arcturian being a relief for me, as I felt I might never hear from this Norse superg...

It is the hubris of many a rock or metal band to perform with an opera or orchestra in either a live or studio setting, to record it for pos...

Blood Incantation is one of the foremost entities to reap the death metal whirlwind of the last decade, expanding upon the cosmic sound of ...

Life Sentence was one of the greatest comebacks launched in all of British heavy metal history, and as far as I'm concerned, the band c...

I have to admit guiltily, that until I decided to revisit through all the Armored Saint albums, I had nearly forgotten that Win Hands Down ...

And just like that, after years of gradual evolution into an Annihilator that was worth listening to again, the Dave Padden era had come to...

Iron Maiden 's first double-album arrived at an era in which the band would be highly unlikely to fill 90 minutes with the sort of immor...

The first time looking at the Minneriket logo, I am reminded of America's own Leviathan , which is ironic since both bands practice a m...

Where The Living Infinite might have had a little too much ambition and material for its own good, Soilwork would return a couple years la...

Darkness Drips Forth  sounds partly like an experiment by Hooded Menace to flirt with a more funereal doom sound, not that it's quick t...

Canada. Sci-fi. Thrash metal. The first thing that comes to mind is obviously Autothrall's favorite band in the world, Voivod , but the ...

I am not a vinyl collector. I've got a stack of old records from back in my youth, and a couple I've gotten through the years, or se...

I can't have been the only one excited when this new collaboration between Michael Denner and Hank Shermann was announced. It had been a...

It's nothing novel to hear some new Sabbath sounding upstart arrive on a label like Rise Above Records, but when the simply dubbed Luci...

I'd love to know what the band was thinking when they came up with some of their cover art choices...a post-nuclear-winter New York City...

Four Paths to Horror is a 12 track split CD featuring four bands, three of which are projects from prolific death metal gurus Kam Lee, Rogga...

As fond as I've grown for the older school death metal aesthetics that initially won me over to the genre in the 80s, and the acts that ...

Another of many projects within the extended Razorback family to cross over members, Wooden Stake  revolves around Vanessa Alucarda of Howli...