“Creators of the Downfall” is the debut EP by unsigned German heavy-power metal band Sacred Gate. What’s that you say? German metal? You have my interest.
Dooooooooooooooom! Swedish purveyors of doom, Isole, have just released their fifth album, “Born from Shadows” and it might just be their best album yet.
I feel pretty lucky living in the D.C./Baltimore area because we get a lot of metal bands that come through town. Many parts of the country (or even the world) have to travel...
Well I hope you all had a great weekend, I know I did. Saturday Buke and I had a great time at the Warbringer show, but you’ll hear about that more later this week...
Where does one begin with Iced Earth? Jon Schaffer and Iced Earth first came to my attention probably around 1993 or so; it was after the release of “Night of the Stormrider”...
Today marks the release of the fourth Skeletonwitch album, “Forever Abomination.” I’ve had my eye on Skeletonwitch since I first learned of them after the release of their...
Sweden is known for its melodic death metal exports. Swedish death metal isn’t so much a label that defines origin as it is its own category and style.
In the early to mid 90s one of the early great black metal bands was Dissection. “The Somberlain” and “Storm of the Lights Bane” are true classics of the genre.
Two years after the tragic passing of their bass player, Mike Alexander, Evile have returned with their third album “Five Serpent’s Teeth.” Since their first album...
Thrash metal is probably my favorite style of metal. I was but a wee lad when thrash surfaced in the 80s. I have a special fondness for it because it felt like...
Can I just say it is about damn time? Machine Head have been around for years, but they took the metal world by storm in 2007 with the masterpiece “The Blackening.”
Landmine Marathon, from Phoenix, Arizona is getting ready to release their fourth album “Gallows” tomorrow. Despite seeing a slew of reviews praising them in...
Century – a period of 100 years. A pretty unassuming and average sized word, yet at the same time massively heavy. After all, it contains more years than the average person...
Laugh At The Fakes is an unsigned band from Toronto and right from the first few seconds I am digging “One Night Only” really hard. You guys need to get signed and distributed like right now.
It’s been awhile since the last Einherjer album, probably due to the fact that they were supposedly retired. Retired in the music industry doesn’t mean the same thing...
I love to discover an obscure side band by someone from another band I really like. Angel of Damnation is a product of Gerrit Mutz who is the singer for Sacred Steel and Dawn of Winter.
I cannot begin to express how excited I was when I heard the news that Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and former Fates Warning singer John Arch were working on a new album together.
Well this was not what I was expecting at all. A band from Norway named Wolves Like Us had me thinking this would be black metal or at least some form of death metal...
I never thought this day would come, I really didn’t. But today we have a new Anthrax album featuring Joey Belladonna on vocals once more after a 20 year absence.
This is a review I should have written awhile ago and for whatever reason I never did. I’ve got some extra time and inspiration today so let’s do this. Flotsam & Jetsam and I go way back. Way back.
I like to think of metal as a universal language that cuts through all the crap that makes different people at odds with each other and brings them together for a cathartic sweaty good time.
Hello? Yes, you, standing over there. Would you be so kind as to hand me that face lying on the ground there by your feet…thank you. *Unnnggghhh* There, that’s better.
Hmmmmmm. What do we have here? Looks to me like an Aussie metal band with a curious name based partly on girly naughty bits. I’m not sure where they came up with that name, but the album title...
When the grunge era came along in the early 90s a lot of metal bands disappeared, converted or just went dormant. There was better money being made playing heavy...
Today we’ve got another unsigned band, Cholera from Ottawa, Canada, a progressive death metal band. The band consists of multi-instrumentalist Raphael Weinroth and Matthew Buller.
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”...
“Creators of the Downfall” is the debut EP by unsigned German heavy-power metal band Sacred Gate. What’s that you say? German metal? You have my interest.