There have been many occasions where I’ve gone to sit down and just to an album with the simple goal of just letting the album taking me wherever the fuck it pleases. And to be completely honest, I didn’t think … Continue reading Ketzer – Cloud Collider
Sometimes I listen to an album, enjoy it quite a bit, and then sit down and try to find a name for the style since it’s not spoon-fed to me, but then cases like tonight come in where I couldn’t … Continue reading Equaleft – We Defy
Whenever I think of anything progressive in the world of metal, my brain tends to lean towards acts like Gojira or Allegaeon who have really pushed the modern limits for the style and thus have individually garnered throngs of fans. … Continue reading HateVirus – Hateful Mind
I’ve always been a firm believer that, every now and then, you need to really shake your listening habits up just a little bit in order to reinvigorate the senses in a way. It’s something that I’ve said time and … Continue reading Alouth – Resentment
I’m far from any sort of historian but I feel it’s safe to say that outside of the original sound of heavy metal itself, it’s thrash that has been one of the longest reigning styles of all of metal to … Continue reading Exumer – Hostile Defiance
When I first started listening to death metal, I didn’t know what I was looking for other than something to really leap out at me. Nothing held my attention or served as my gateway drug until I stumbled across Feared’s … Continue reading Ola Englund – Master of the Universe
It’s always whenever I listen to an album that I expect to not hear anything from the band in question for years at least unless some sort of double album bonanza is at play. So whenever I hear from a … Continue reading Bort – The Unblinking Eye
In my time as a metalhead, it appears to be all but clear that the entire genre as whole contains a wide swathe of emotions like incredibly few others out in the world, and it feels as though more emotions … Continue reading Lysithea – Star-Crossed
Crust is the sort of thing that, like all metal, can feel really lazy at times. To bring some flavors of punk into the vast world of death metal is far from anything that we’ve seen before for years, but … Continue reading Goregӓng – Neon Graves
The single greatest idea that I’ve found in all my time scouring music is how every now and then we get an act that dares to create songs that are ridiculous in length as we get pieces that can range … Continue reading Flame, Dear Flame – The Millennial Heartbeat
