Birch Hill Dam is a stoner/doom/southern metal band from the north (North Billerica, MA) and apparently they are currently unsigned. After giving a listen to “Colossus”...
Read MoreGhost Brigade is quite possibly a progressive death metal band from Finland. I say quite possibly because I’m not real sure about the progressive death metal part.
Read MoreNormally I review albums that are at least fairly recent, but today I am doing something different and reviewing an album that came out six years ago.
Read MoreBlatant Disarray is the other band on Tribunal Records that I picked up on iTunes the other day. They are also from North Carolina, which leads me to believe that must be where Tribunal is located.
Read MoreCardinals Folly is a fairly traditional doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They used to be called The Coven before changing their name a few years ago.
Read MoreColossus is another band I found while looking through the iTunes new Metal releases. “Drunk on Blood” is only a five song EP but their decidedly old-school metal sound...
Read MoreI first discovered Trivium somewhere between their first and second album. I saw them open a show at the Recher Theater in Towson, MD (I want to say it was with Iced Earth and Beyond the Embrace...
Read MoreHail the return of Polish death metal purveyors Vader! (Being a life-long Star Wars fan the name Vader wins bonus points in my book.) This band has been around forever...
Read MoreThe wait is nearly over. “Agony” will be hitting the streets next week and what a welcome arrival it will be. Described as Italian technical death metal, I have to wonder...
Read MoreIf I’m doing my math correctly, the average age of the three founding members of Diamond Plate is 18. They released their first EP in 2008 at 15 years old.
Read MoreWhat happens when you take some people from power metal bands and throw them together with some people from death metal bands? Well in this case you get Mayan.
Read MoreRare are those moments when you come across music that really connects with you and you just know that you’ve found a new favorite band. Some people have a new favorite band every week which dilutes the experience.
Read MoreSome people will never admit they are wrong and will fight to uphold a mistake long after it makes any sense to do so. Not me though, I can admit when I’m wrong.
Read MorePoking around in the new releases on iTunes this morning I noticed that Sinister Realm just released a new album, “The Crystal Eye”. I liked their first album...
Read MoreHere we are again: Another show at Jaxx, and another complaint about how they never open on time. I checked their website before leaving work and it said the doors were at 6PM.
Read MoreGrunge. I remember well how it came along like an avalanche from nowhere and killed off the pop music and hair metal of the 80s. Most of the remaining metal went...
Read MoreWikipedia lists All Shall Perish as a deathcore band from Oakland, CA. I’m not a real fan of the term deathcore or the bands that are generally associated with it.
Read MoreI seem to be on a Viking/Folk metal kick lately, because today we have Falkenbach, a Viking metal band from Germany. It is funny how time gets away from us...
Read MoreHow many people actually listen to music which is sung in a language they do not speak? I’m just curious. I wonder how successful bands are that sing only in...
Read More“Baldur” is the debut album from Icelandic metal band Skálmöld. The only other music I know from Iceland is Björk, and this is a wee bit heavier.
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