Macabre 's a band I never get around to revisiting often, but don't let that fool you, I think they're a fairly interesting and ...

With all the rage over nasty speed metal acts like Midnight over the last decade, it's a little surprising that Minnesota's Impaler...

Dennis Dread has got to be one of my favorite cover artists working today, and California's filth merchants Abscess had the honor of ...

Devil Master 's Satan Spits on Children of Light is one of my favorite records to come out in 2019, so I was naturally curious to che...

A lot of the bands performing in the crust/D-beat medium these days all carry a particularly Swedish tone to their guitars, often injectin...

Misfits alumnus Doyle has a solid history of attempting to mesh together the horror swagger of that infamous punk entity with a more meta...

I had encountered the name Rostok Vampires a handful of times through the 80s and early 90s, probably referenced in some zines, or perhap...

Possession Park is a record I remember more for the place in which I didn't initially purchase it than for any of its musical ingredi...

The Lurking Corpses are one of those fondly spoken-of bands deep in the heart of the US scene that I've taken far too long in getting...

Violation Wound is raw metal-punk interpreted through the imaginations of Autopsy god Chris Reifert, bassist Joe Orterry ( Zombie Holoca...

Sleep is for pussies, and as Wrath and crew roll on with their tireless body of work, they prove it is unnecessary to create of some of th...

Ed note: the album review contains notes on a live show, which was held at The Beacham in Orlando, FL on 16 April 2013.   Crystal Castles ...

Though never the most reticent of metal bands, Italy's Children of Technology really wear their hearts on their sleeves so boldly tha...

Bonehunter : now there's a name which should inspire some dread, whether or not you're a Steven Erikson fan or you just haven'...

I'll give Kentucky's Astrum some credit. They are one damned straightforward band, seeking little more than to punk up the formula ...

When Chicago's Usurper broke up a while back, it left a void out in the Midwest of crude and authentic US punishment. Not that I was a ...

Well it IS shit, but it ain't so fun. Autopsy 's 4th album might be a meager half-truth in advertising, but it's not at all surp...

Having renewed their approach to extremity on 1992's Tapping the Vein , Tom Angelripper and company decided not to simply repeat themsel...

Mottek are one of several European bands crossing the bridge from punk/hardcore music to the metal realm in the mid to late 80s (alongside ...

Splayed out in leather, bullet belts, mohawks, mutton chops, vests, and more patches than you'd find at an open air headbanger festival,...