Celestial Sanctuary came onto my radar with their 2021 debut Soul Diminished , it had some pretty distinctive artwork and fit right in with...

Cradle of Filth has provided such an embarrassment of riches over the last 17 years, since Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder ended that ...

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...

Witchcult Today is one of those records that feels so simple and primal that you could just plug in, write it and record it on the spot, an...

Xentrix was another of what I'd dub the 'two and done' metal acts of the 80s to early 90s. You know, a solid debut thrash effor...

On the surface, The Pact  comes across pretty cool, with a simplistic and iconic sort of cover that aesthetically transports me back to the ...

England's Ryan Willis has become somewhat of a commodity of late within the horror/death metal underground, launching a number of acts s...

If this were any other band, I might say that Cruel Magic would be a tough act to follow, but I was 100% confident that whatever Satan put...

Maiden thrives off its live legacy, while releasing overblown, overlong albums whose qualities are distilled and desperately in need of an ...

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...

There's an earlier, rare Satan live album that I've never heard that was put out a decade earlier than Trail of Fire , but for me ...

I have a little bit of Mandela Effect when it comes to Suspended Sentence , or at least I thought I did, because I always equated this as mo...

Into the Future  (aka the Dirt Demo '86 ) came out three years after Court in the Act , and I think that might be one of the reasons tha...

Though it would take years along my metal path to discover and process so much of the lesser known NWOBHM of the earlier 80s, Satan was a b...

It might be tempting to take my recent review of Book of Souls , copy and paste it with all the appropriate titles changed, because Senjutsu...

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 cover art to Existence is Futile  offers a lot to unpack, some sort of devilish orgy processing center against the burning wastes of Hel...

The VHS cover reference, the obvious Friday the 13th  parallels, and the title definitely seem like the setup for a fun slasher metal record...

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

Cradle of Filth 's music already has such a natural sweep and bombast to it that converting the metallics into sheer orchestration only ...