Horde Casket' s fourth album Xenopocalypse proves to me a more unified, conceptual bludgeoning which pays homage to science fiction h...

Having seen Finland thrive over the last 20 years in just about every niche of metal that exists, with a particular emphasis in the melodi...

For their 11th full-length, Lacrimas Profundere seem to have emerged from the stagnancy of middle-of-the-road Gothic arena rock to produc...

Lacrimas Profundere is a band which has more or less followed the trajectory of legends  Paradise Lost , originating with a Gothic doom a...

Summoning Hell might not prove the Next Big Thing in terms of an ever broadening pool of blackened thrash and speed metal, but what it do...

Blackened speed and thrash metal is one of my favorite niches in all of the genre these last couple years, but it relies so heavily on the...

I wish I could say there was some further dynamic growth for these Oklahoma/Texas brutes, but Bloodfiends doesn't deviate greatly fro...

2012's Ghost in the Fire was such an overwhelming paean to human suffering that I doubted in advance there was any 'lower' pl...

Lantern 's 2013 debut Below was one of those debut full-lengths so stacked with both subtle and overt qualities and flavors that it...

You've got to love how the metal press, particularly the metal press in Europe, finds a way to keep its subscriptions afloat in the di...