There is a tragic beauty in sorrow and grief, and all stories ultimately end in both. Neither can be avoided, all that can be done is to come to grips with them and find your way through life. There is beauty because there is beauty in life and its [...]
Cattle Decapitation are no longer a fringe deathgrind band with shock-value imagery and lyrics to hammer down their message. They have venerated giants in the technical/death metal scene and are looked at as dependable titans belting out records of the [...]
Three years between records is quite the industry standard, but for listeners and fans of Despised Icon still reeling from their long hiatus before 2016’s Beast, Purgatory comes as a welcome sign that the Canadian deathcore vets may be here to stay. [...]
Sweden’s The Flower Kings have been one of the forerunners, and among the most active bands in the modern progressive rock scene since the mid-90s. Lead by guitarist/vocalist and primary composer and lyricist Roine Stolt, they are one of the bands [...]
The majority of extreme metal bands do not break the ten album mark and Novembers Doom, the American Death/Doom metal veterans, are not one of them. The Chicago based band is one of the oldest and longest-running bands of the style and they have made a [...]
I’ll admit up front that I am in general not a huge fan of the technical death metal sub genre. Yes it is fast, and highly complex, all of which I appreciate. Inevitably I get bored with it after about three songs. There is, however, a monumental [...]
In the last couple of decades the city of Perth in Western Australia has become a hotspot for heavy rock and alternative music. Established Perth natives like Karnivool, Pendulum, Bird of Tokyo and Tame Impala amongst others have claimed international [...]
As black metal slowly shaped into its current form over the last couple of decades, Mayhem’s course obliqued into a space not very aligned with the genre. Considering how black metal was indebted to Mayhem’s early developments, not everyone [...]
