It should come as no surprise by now that I've written a far more comprehensive list of 100 of my favorite metal albums over at my Rate ...

Taking December off from reviews due to the typical hectic Holiday schedule, but my year's end picks should arrive here by the end of ...

That a band could experience a career Renaissance almost four decades into their career is a rare enough phenomena, but I'm not sure I...

Ever since I did a review swarm covering the evolution of German thrash through the 80s, 90s (and beyond), Hamburg brutes Warpath have pr...

The Arrow of Satan is Drawn is one of those albums I want so hard not to feel disappointed with that I've burned out trying. Ostensib...

Castellum is the most straight-to-the-face of the  Darkenhöld discography, choosing to eschew some glistening Medieval acoustic or synthe...

I've long been a picky listener of Deicide , appreciating the 'shock value' and importance they've brought to the death me...

While not advancing the band's purview far beyond it's debut, Echoes from the Stone Keeper  was a fine sophomore effort which cont...

I'm years late checking out this four-way split, but as a fan of three of the four French bands participating on my way into it, I fig...

I've been drawn into  Darkenhöld 's brand of glorious, melancholic Medieval black metal since the very debut, and for years now th...