Today we have Italian progressive gothic doom band Your Tomorrow Alone and their debut record for My Kingdom Music, “Ordinary Lives.” Their bio sheet lists influences such as Paradise Lost...
Today I fired up the iPhone, looked at the schedule, and queued up Chainfist. I popped in my earphones and started playing their debut album, “Black Out Sunday”...
Surprise of the week comes from Swedish melodic death metal band Deals Death. Their second album, “Elite”, was the only new metal release I could find on iTunes today...
Today we have another release that I have been eagerly awaiting these last few months – the fourth Pharaoh album, “Bury the Light.” I first heard these guys after the release of their last album...
Fans of Rhapsody take heed! Italian symphonic power metal band Drakkar have returned with their fourth album, “When Lightning Strikes.” Italy is well known for operas, so their quality symphonic metal...
Today marks the U.S. release of the twelfth Cannibal Corpse album, “Torture.” I’ve been looking forward to this album for several months. I started listening to Cannibal Corpse...
Listen up children, today’s lesson is in persistence. Nothing good in life comes quickly or easy and Brazilian thrash band Prophecy are a perfect example. Formed in 1985 under the name...
Here we have Unbodied an unsigned band from Ohio and their self-titled five song EP. Their brief bio states that they incorporate elements of death metal, sludge, thrash, stoner metal and progressive...
(In the voice of a movie trailer narrator guy): In a world where heavy metal has fractured and become segmented into countless sub-genres that all stick rigidly to the rulebook of their particular style...
Heidevolk, which translates to “people of the moorland” in English, is a Dutch folk/Viking metal band. “Batavi” is their fourth album and is sung entirely in their native Dutch.
Yesterday I covered Napalm Death and Asphyx; today I’m starting with Corrosion of Conformity (sans Pepper). Time allowing I’ve also got albums on deck by Drudkh and Eluveitie. And don’t get me started on the treasure trove of NWOBHM-worship...
Next up we have another veteran extreme metal band, the Dutch death-doom metal band Asphyx. These guys have had quite the rotating lineup over the years and have broken up several times...
Today is full of new releases and I’m hard pressed to decide where to begin. I guess I’ll just jump in and see how far I can get. First up we have Napalm Death with their fifteenth album...
Today we have another band from Greece - power metal band Emerald Sun. “Regeneration” is their third album and first with vocalist Theo Tsakirides. These guys are another...
Sorrow’s Path is a Greek doom metal band that is more qualified than most to speak upon matters of doom and gloom. This band has struggled through the tragic death of one member and the debilitating motorcycle accident of another.
Today we have Monoscream from Stockholm, Sweden and their full-length debut “Redemption" “Redemption” is the follow up to their EP, “Reborn.” I haven’t heard the EP to know how it compares, but “Redemption” sounds very well done...
Well this isn’t the first time I’ve been late to the party. People have been clamoring praise for Eluveitie for a few years now but I never really climbed on the bandwagon.
On the schedule for today we’ve got Hymnosis, an unsigned band from Montreal. “Unmasking Faces” is their five-song EP of thrashy hardcore groove metal.
King Giant is another of my impulse purchases this week, and I have to say I’m rather embarrassed to find that I could almost spit and hit these guys, yet I’ve never heard of them.
Yesterday I found myself in the familiar position of wanting to discover some new metal, but not having anything in mind to try out. Part of my “discovery process”...
Psycroptic are a technical death metal band from Australia. “The Inherited Repression” is their much anticipated fifth album (second for Nuclear Blast).
It’s Tuesday, and I don’t know about you, but I could use a little pick me up to help get this week moving in the right direction. My week seems ready to derail again if things don’t improve...
Ever since “Unto the Locust” came out last year I’ve been waiting for Machine Head to come to town. I’d seen them three times previously, but never as a headliner.
I went through an industrial phase back in the mid to late 90s. It probably started with Ministry and Nine Inch Nails but eventually I was listening to bands like...
When the need for new music strikes me I’m like a junky sick for a fix. I start frantically looking around online for something I haven’t heard before that will satisfy my need...
Today is one of those Mondays that must have it in for me. Nothing major has happened yet (though I did almost drive off the road minutes after leaving the house) but every little thing...
Today we have a band that needs no introduction, Lacuna Coil. “Dark Adrenaline” is the Italian gothic metal band’s sixth album. It should come as no surprise...
“Global Flatline” is the seventh album from Belgium-based death metal band Aborted. This album is the first with two new members, one on drums (Ken Bedene) and the other on guitar (Mike Wilson).
Today we have Italian progressive gothic doom band Your Tomorrow Alone and their debut record for My Kingdom Music, “Ordinary Lives.” Their bio sheet lists influences such as Paradise Lost...