Taking its name from the 1974 Spanish-Italian answer to the seminal ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ the riff salad of “The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue,” which kicks off Carcass’ ‘Despicable’ EP, comes on like [...]
Listening to Ihsahn has always been an experience of comfort. Irrespective of whether it is his heavy and headbanging music or the side of his music that takes a clear experimental side. Overall, Ihsahn’s musical genius has aged like fine wine over [...]
It is not a frequent phenomenon that one finds music where a band tastefully uses traditional heavy metal influences with a tasteful modern interpretation. Sure it has been done quite often, in the sense that, our experiences of heavy metal and metal [...]
If there’s anything going on in the world right now we can still be happy about, it’s that music is still being released, and we can still get some enjoyment out of it. In early June progessive powerhouse Frost* will be digitally releasing [...]
Behemoth as an extreme metal band is known for many things. From the on-stage theatrics, fantastic storytelling through their music, extreme compositions and performances, their aesthetics, their very signature sounds, and chiefly among them are their [...]
Let’s knock-out the proverbial biggest guy in the prison yard first: if Khemmis’s new EP ‘Doomed Heavy Metal’ were simply a vehicle for delivering their cover of Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark”, the record would have [...]
Full disclosure, I am a huge fan of the “new” incarnation of Aborted, by which I mean the version of Aborted after 2008’s divisive “Strychnine.213”, and beginning with a reimagined, less grind-focused, more-straightforward [...]
The chapter of the phenomenon that was Emperor might have been closed some time ago. But Ihsahn continues to keep the fire burning, with flames of vivid colors and hypnotic movements. As his solo releases spun off groves and saw new horizons, what pulled [...]
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