Masterpieces of the metal sort.
Hungarian band Tormentor is widely (and justly) recognized as a major influence on the second wave black metal bands. Partly due to their vocalist Attila Csihar's brilliant performance on Mayhem's classic De Mysteriis dom Sathanas, …
I've been going around for a while saying that I'm really not all that into death metal anymore. And, I don't know, maybe some of that is me preferring melody in a largely atonal genre, …
Within the fetid halls of black metal, there exists a genre known as DSBM (not to be confused with NSBM, and also not to be confused with BDSM, both of which are very--well, slightly--different things). …
Certain metalheads, myself included, consider the quest to find tr00ly KVLT metal to be one the most important tasks a member of the metal underground can undertake. KVLT (pronounced: "cult") is a general term for …
I've always been on the fence when it comes to Sepultura. Sure, I own 4 of their albums (6 before I sold off Chaos A.D. and Roots), and they have plenty of great riffs, and …
Everyone knows the Greek black metal big 3 (Varathron, Rotting Christ and Necromantia), but for some reason Zemial never seems to get their name dropped quite enough when casual fans discuss the Hellenic scene. Rather than …
Bodybuilding champion, actor, director, screenwriter, rock opera composer, historian, singer with the voice of an angel, and vigorous yet attentive lover, Canada's own Jon-Mikl Anger Thor is a man of many talents. As such, it …
Immolation was always kind of an oddball band. They were somewhere in between brutal death metal and a more melodic style that focused on weird guitar harmonies and slower mid-paced sections. Gorguts would probably be …
National Socialist Black Metal is a touchy subject, even (especially) among black metal fans. And while I fall into the camp that an artist's personal ideological beliefs should have no effect on your enjoyment of …
Sodom, even more so than Kreator (covered here a few months ago), was probably the most brutal of the early German thrash bands. Their music always towed the line between thrash and death metal (especially …