Music with guitars that have some bite.
South American black/thrash/death is known for a few things. The music is incredibly fast and raw, the drumming sounds like someone kicked the drum kit down a flight of stairs, and, overall, it's about as nasty …
As my tastes in black metal have (de)evolved over the years, I have realized that there is definitely a certain sound that I have apparently been seeking this entire time. Its exact qualities are always just out …
Retro metal has been a thing for a while now, and, honestly, I'm just fine with bands mining the good ol' days of 80s heavy and speed metal in an attempt to recapture even a …
I've been going around lately saying that about the only death metal I listen to any more is Incantation and the legion of bands they influenced with their focus on dark, evil, atmosphere over, like, …
Aspersions have been cast, in my general direction, regarding the content of this feature. SOME have claimed that the word "masterpiece" is being used far to freely. After last month's album, it was even suggested …
I've discussed this many times before on this feature, but elitist metalhead snobs LOVE finding bands like Deathslayer. This New York based group recorded two demos in the early 80s and then just kind of disappeared. …
Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt is one of those albums that tends to get overlooked because it came about 6 years too late. By 1996, this kind of first wave black death stuff wasn't exactly wowing people …
In the early days of computing, before Graphical User Interfaces were commonplace, nerds still needed games to play on their primitive computers. Thus the text based interactive fiction game was born. While the Zork series …
I may joke about Xasthur making the same album over and over again, and that may also be entirely true, but, regardless of whether or not Malefic (the sole creative force behind Xasthur) "Vivaldis" things …
I don’t think it’s fair to heap abuse onto Midnight for being unoriginal. Sure, they might all be card carrying members of the Venom fan club, but Midnight’s music, and infectious energy, is really quite …