All posts by Jake Patton

It’s very easy to label the last decade as the best of Amorphis’ career. While the band has had some arguably brilliant periods during their three-decade-long tenure, the past 10 years have seen the powerhouse deliver some of the strongest [...]

Omnium Gatherum has taken one remarkable road to get to where they are. Over the course of the past two decades, the band has transitioned in sound from a band rooted in the deep and dark aspects of melodic death metal to a more ambient and [...]

As a band, Be’lakor is a bit of an enigma. Over the past decade, the Melbourne quintet has seemingly followed an interesting pattern of ascending from the shadows, releasing new material, briefly touring in support of that material, and then [...]

At this stage in the game, it’s very easy to see Insomnium going down in the annals of melodic death metal history. As a consistent contributor over the past two decades, the Finnish quartet have transformed into a powerhouse of Finnish melancholy [...]

Compared to most bands, Times of Grace have an interesting history. Born as the side-project of Killswitch Engage’s enigmatic guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, and then-former Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach, their debut album—the well-received [...]

  Cannibal Corpse is a name synonymous with death metal. There’s little doubt that the band is one of the most recognized on the planet for the genre, having been around for over three decades. Ahead of the release of their 15th studio album [...]

When you talk about established extreme Death Metal acts, there are fewer more renowned than Cannibal Corpse. The American quartet have been a mainstay in the genre, and have created a legacy that is unparalleled. While controversy has never been too far [...]

When the news broke in 2019 that Children Of Bodom had decided to call it a day, it had many fans left wondering if this was truly the end. And while the members of the band went their separate ways, enigmatic frontman Alexi Laiho was never going to go [...]