I might not cover it much on these pages, but stoner/doom metal and rock is something I spin often, almost as my own personal alternative to...

The first few singles I had heard of Lucifer V before its release were alright, but didn't leave me quite so excited as I was for its p...

It's always interested me that so many of the Carcass alumni spent their time during their mainstay's hiatus forming or joining ban...

I would have been content if Lucifer could keep putting out equivalents to Lucifer II and III for the rest of my years, but they had to g...

This split combining the talents of two of our better 70s-flavored retro hard rocking doom bands was sure to be a treat, with the caveat tha...

I like to imagine that the ascending Roman numerals Lucifer sticks on their successive albums are a 'leveling up' system, because w...

Lucifer II does mark a partial change of direction from the debut, but it does so without neglecting the bands roots and initial premise to...

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...

Just one glance at the cover to A Taste for the Kill and I'm taken back to the 80s when I'd be cruising the mall for metal records,...

I was hardly any hesher hunk to take advantage of the 80s hair metal sex and fashion, I was too young and dweeby at the time (and the latter...

Lordi is a band I denied for several years, shrugging them off as a mere  GWAR knockoff. As it turns out, this was shortsighted and fool...

No Bones About It suffered as a misplaced artifact for around when it came out, largely because the hard music landscape was in such a st...

Don't be put off by the first track on this - "Fallout Woman" - which feels like a weird amalgamation of The Doors, Cream, T...

I remember first checking out Burning Saviours nearly a decade ago, they were definitely one of those 70s throwback/doom bands, alongside...

Mach II is more or less a 'supergroup' of the Ohio underground, a bunch of long time headbangers and hard rockers getting togethe...

With such a towering achievement as Visual Lies underfoot, one that was simply unlikely to be reproduced or bettered by this particular...

I had pretty high hopes for the Dezperadoz project after hearing the 2000 debut The Dawn of Dying , because let's face it: Wild West ...

It's probably better to think of Censored as an afterthought rather than a new Nigel Foxxe's Inc. album, a thought that might have...

I'm not sure when Victory Records started moving outside of their safety zone of old school hardcore, metalcore, and pop punk to put out...

Perhaps the saddest sign of hard rock and traditional metal's state in the 90s were so many of the boring ass cover arts. Meant to be ic...