The Pennsylvania-based metalcore band, August Burns Red have been a staple in the scene for over twenty years. With humble small-town beginnings, ABR has grown to be one of the powerhouses of the metalcore genre, known for their technical approach to [...]
Any day with new Periphery content is a good day! Yes, five albums (six if you count the Alpha/Omega double album) in, Periphery is still cranking out new music like the well-oiled machine it has been proven to be. Continuing the trend of tongue-in-cheek [...]
Full disclosure, Suicide Silence holds a special place in my heart, as it does for many a millennial core-head. For many, Suicide Silence was the gateway band into deathcore, fusing the DIY aesthetic of hardcore with the brutality of death metal. Many [...]
The French technical death metal band Gorod has been releasing records for almost as long as I have been alive. Even as someone who would regard technical death metal as their genre of passionate consumption, Gorod has been a band that has always fallen [...]
Ever so often, we like to take a walk on the wild side and taste metal closer to the absolute extreme fringe. Genres like grindcore and brutal death metal fall into the extremity of the type of music we know and love. To make matters worse (or better, [...]
It’s a new year, and a new winter; that means we have to trek through the grim and frostbitten tracks of black metal. This year brings us As in Gardens, So In Tombs, the latest offering of Finnish symphonic black metal veterans And Oceans. For being [...]
Lorna Shore are no longer the underdogs of deathcore. In fact, they could nearly be among the most talked-about bands in deathcore and modern extreme metal as an emergent genre. I reviewed their previous record Immortal here and claimed that they were no [...]
Iconic is the debut album from the internationally collaborative act, Obsidious, formed from the major personnel reshuffling of neoclassical technical death metal band Obscura. In many regards, Obsidious comes to us in direct response to the musical [...]
