With the title track, ‘Dreams in Motion’ begins auspiciously enough with the kind of funereal riff that Windstein probably writes in his sleep. Harmonized lead guitars over tribal tom beat guide the track into the sparse, open chords of a [...]
Some of the most influential bands in music history have been international in nature, originating in the largest countries and the most remote regions of the world. A lot of new music is currently coming from all corners of the globe. Alien [...]
Heavy metal is a titanic cliché. The lyrics, the names, the clothes…all elements we protect with heart and soul have been done so many times before, in so many different ways, that it’s impossible to take it seriously all the time. But [...]
With 2019 winding down to its final days, another year of excellent progressive releases is in the books. So we will be looking forward to 2020, and start with the aptly named ‘MMXX’ by prog-metal supergroup Sons of Apollo. This comes only a [...]
Rage is probably one of the first bands I ever heard in my life. Having a metalhead brother 8 years older than me had its perks when shaping my taste in music, and given the fact that my family always had a knack for the Teutonic style of playing metal, [...]
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. [...]
