Music with guitars that have some bite.
Another year of actually listening to new metal down, and I'm happy to report it was another year of quality finds! There weren't any real standouts like Peste Noire and Satan's new ones last year …
I really don't listen to all that much death metal anymore, but when I do, it sounds like Spain's Hic Iacet. Atmospheric, simplistic, and, above all, EEEEVIL as fuck, Hic Iacet's debut demo really deserves …
Kampfar is one of those second wave Norwegian black metal bands that I thought I was totally over. The kind of stuff that I listen to and think "yeah, this kind of sounds like Immortal, …
Any metalhead worth their salt will tell you that Glam music is SO NOT METAL. However, no metalhead worth their salt would ever suggest that W.A.S.P. should "leave the hall," despite W.A.S.P.'s sketchy generic classification …
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. I can sometimes …
1989 was a pretty brutal year for extreme metal. Grindcore and death metal had finally used the knowledge culled from a decade of metal malevolence to produce some of the filthiest recordings in the history …
Inquisition is one of those 3rd (4th?) wave black metal bands from the early 2000s that I missed during my half decade break from discovering new music. Not that they were going to be able …
Though France is known for its filthy black metal, you don't hear as much about more traditional French "heavy metal" bands. Still, they are out there, and Sortilège is one of the earliest and still the …
One nice thing about the slowly growing infestation of really racist bands in the extreme music underground is that, by and large, they all pretty much objectively suck. I mean, even that Peste Noire album …
One thing I love about black metal is how it takes on different characteristics based on its country of origin. While all black metal bands work with the same (narrow) set of influences, each black …