Torture and metal kinda go hand in hand, don’t they? Whether it’s death metal bands singing about gruesome ways to elicit pain or black metal bands putting various implements of suffering on an album cover, methods of making humans scream and squirm fit very well within the confines of music’s most extreme genre. Hell, arguably…
Anyone that loves metal knows that South America does metal better than most places on the globe. Whether it’s Sarcófago, Sepultura, Mystifier, Abhorrence, Krisiun or any of a myriad of other killer bands, our friends near and south of the equator know a thing or two about making maniacal metal. Bands across the continent have spent…
This year has seen a plethora of fresh offerings from new bands. There’s something undeniably exhilarating about hearing a debut and knowing that this is a band to watch out for. Whether a band can build off a promising first outing is another story but when the debut is all you have, and damn good at…
While 2022 has seen the start of a lot of promising metal careers, it also comes with the end of one. Root, the legendary black metal band from the Czech Republic, announced this year that they would be retiring from live performance and studio recordings after the release of their 11th and final LP due to…
Phil Hall is not a man given to downtime. Whether it’s putting together thrash classics (thrashics, if you will) with Municipal Waste, weed hazed death metal with Cannabis Corpse, or political-tinged crossover with Iron Reagan, Landphil can usually be found working on something music related. With so many albums across so many genres, you could be…
Sadly, the days of the video store are gone. Picking out a movie for the night doesn’t entail walking through row after row of VHS or DVD cases and picking out not only what appeals the most but what’s actually in stock. Now, rather than the tactile experience of wandering through aisles with other movie fans,…
Resurrection is not a rare event in the world of metal. Since the dawn of the new(ish) millennium, plenty of bands have come and gone and come back again. Everyone from Carcass to the Tygers of Pan Tang have reformed and put out killer records since their triumphant returns. Bands long thought dead and gone have…