“Never compromise,” Kirk Windstein rasps on “Confess to Nothing,” the third song on Crowbar’s newest and twelfth longplayer, Zero and Below. It’s a succinct order and one that the band has never really disobeyed during their 30+ year career playing in the decidedly unmainstream sludge metal genre. Decades and decades ago these guys blended doom metal stylings with…
Depending on how you look at it, there’s either never been a better time or a worse time for a new Sabaton album. The band’s tenth longplayer, The War to End All Wars, is, unsurprisingly if you’ve even halfway paid attention to the group over the years, another collection of songs about war. That this…
“Your brains are slaughtered. In this hell, they have no use. Burned on site, bestial beast on the loose” Athenar howls to start the band’s fifth full-length, Let There Be Witchery. It’s as good of a mission statement as any for the newest creation from Midnight, the one-man band from Cleveland. Midnight releases tend to…
This is not a Cannibal Corpse album but you can be forgiven if you thought that just by hearing it. What can’t be forgiven is anyone pissed that George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher’s solo debut sounds Cannibal Corpse-ish. I’m seeing a decent chunk of people who are kind of ho-hum on the album due to the fact that…
We here at Metal Plague believe in living by the code and dying by the code. What code are we talking about, you ask? Well, that’s where these sections come in. The Code is a regular feature on the site where we lay out the rules and standards that we live by in an attempt…
For any devotee of extreme metal, Decibel is pretty much the be-all-and-end-all as far as reading material goes. I’ve been a subscriber for years and Decibel Day is always one of my favorite days of the month. I cannot even begin to tell you how many new and exciting bands that I’ve been turned on to…
Before we get started with all the fun, I thought it might make sense to introduce myself and give a mission statement of sorts for this space. First off, J. Skeleton is not my real name, which I really hope I shouldn’t have to say. The reason for the pseudonym is that, well, this isn’t my day…