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Video: Colosso – ‘In Memoriam’ Guitar Playthrough
December 12, 2016 Emily Bellino
Colosso writes huge death metal. Now you can watch Colosso play huge death metal.
Impetigo talk new Ultimo Mondo Cannibale cassette reissue
December 8, 2016 Greg Pratt
Here comes Ultimo Mondo Cannibale again, so we caught up with Stevo from Impetigo to get the scoop on this classic death/grind album rising from the dead.
ENCROTCHMENT WEEK 13 WITH EDDIE GOBBO of Something is waiting
December 3, 2016 Eddie Gobbo
The Krampus of NFL writings.
Hall of Fame Countdown: Living Colour’s Vivid
December 1, 2016 Greg Pratt
A closer look at Living Colour’s classic Vivid album, ranked from worst to best track.
Reissue Alert: Sadokist say a “Darkness Prayer”
November 29, 2016 Dutch Pearce
Check out “Darkness Prayer,” from Thy Saviour’s Halo, Held by Horns, the debut album by Finland’s most evil black-thrash band, Sadokist.
Full EP stream: Stench Price – ‘Stench Price’
November 28, 2016 Greg Pratt
Siberian grind weirdos Stench Price are releasing their debut EP on Wednesday; we’re bringing you an exclusive full-EP stream today.
Video Premiere: Wrvth – ‘Cease to Exist’
November 23, 2016 Emily Bellino
WRVTH release an experimental music video to go with their song “Cease to Exist.”
Hierophant’s Lollo picks the five best bad-vibe metal albums ever
November 23, 2016 Greg Pratt
Hierophant are downers on their new album, so we picked their brain to get their fave party-poopin’ metal albums of all time.
Encrotchment Week 11 with Eddie Gobbo of Something is Waiting
November 19, 2016 Eddie Gobbo
The man who is thankful for everything in his life but his Football Team.
Video Premiere: Aenaon – ‘Earth Tomb’
November 18, 2016 Emily Bellino
Aenaon present an unsettling video that is somewhere between reality and dreaming.
October 31 celebrate Metal Massacre compilations with new covers album
November 17, 2016 Greg Pratt
True-’til-death metallers October 31 are about to do the unthinkable: a compilation consisting entirely of Metal Massacre covers.
Is Music Criticism Obsolete?
November 16, 2016 Shane Mehling
Is technology killing music criticism? This is an honest question. It’s killing plenty of other things, so why would this somehow be immune?
STREAMING: Root “Moment of Fright”
November 14, 2016 Chris Dick
Czech Republic’s most active, adventurous, and influential band, Root, are almost in their third decade. Formed in 1987, when their country and the world was in a different place, Root nevertheless managed to emanate outward from their industrial home of Brno.
Video Premiere: Captain Crimson – ‘Love Street’
November 4, 2016 Emily Bellino
Captain Crimson keep it simple with some stripped down blues rock in their new music video.
Black Forge Coffee combine metal, coffee, and video games, finally
November 3, 2016 Greg Pratt
Pittsburgh’s Black Forge Coffee know what we like: metal, coffee, and retro video games.
Video Premiere: Invoking the Abstract – ‘The Summit’
November 1, 2016 Emily Bellino
Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal.
Into the woods with Bindrune Recordings
October 27, 2016 Greg Pratt
Find out what makes the man behind some of today’s best woodsy black metal releases tick with this profile of Bindrune Recordings.
Nathanael Larochette Releases ‘Invocation’ Playthrough, Talks Agalloch Influence
October 25, 2016 Emily Bellino
Watch Nathanael Larochette perform a playthrough of “Invocation,” a song inspired by writing with Agalloch.
Premiere: Get schooled in death metal, and Latin, with Echelon’s “Lex Talionis”
October 25, 2016 Greg Pratt
Need a little Dave Ingram in your day? Here, have a new Echelon track.
Video Premiere: Tutti I Colori Del Buio – ‘Three Times Denied Means Fuck You’
October 24, 2016 Emily Bellino
Horror movies abound in this new video from Tutti I Colori Del Buio.
Video Premiere: Nordjevel – ‘Djevelen I Nord’
October 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
Trolls and demons battle it out with mere mortals in this new video from Nordjevel.
The Top Five Most Outrageous Watchtower Moments Ever
October 20, 2016 Greg Pratt
Texas’ finest have been blowing our minds for years: here are the five times they blew our minds the hardest.
Permanent (Violent) Insomnia (of Unreason) Means More Time for Metal With the November 2016 Decibel Meter
October 19, 2016 Decibel Magazine
Meshuggah, played at loud volumes, awake better than any cute cellphone alarms. Fact. And profuse headbanging maintains wakefulness better than the strongest coffee. Also fact.
Why I Stopped Talking About Women in Metal
October 19, 2016 Shane Mehling
Write about metal long enough and it becomes increasingly difficult to find new, interesting ways to describe loud guitars and screaming. So having a little extra color to add to a review or a profile is always helpful. And when there is a woman in the band, that’s often the first place you turn to for a slightly fresher angle… right?
STREAMING: Deranged “Shivers Down Your Broken Spine”
October 17, 2016 Chris Dick
There’s death metal. And there’s brutal death metal. While the line, for most laymen, is either blurred or non-existent, things ramp up quickly when Sweden’s Deranged feel like an album’s due. There’s death metal and then there’s Deranged! Five years in the making, following 2011’s barbaric Cut Carve Rip Serve, Deranged’s new album, Struck By A Murderous Siege, finds the Swedes in full-on rage mode. Throughout the group’s untethered ninth album, they bark rabidly and relentlessly, as if there’s no concept of an “off” switch.
ENCROTCHMENT WEEK 5 with EDDIE GOBBO of SOMETHING IS WAITING
October 14, 2016 Eddie Gobbo
Yeah, the Cubbies look pretty good, right?
Hall of Fame Countdown: Emperor’s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
October 13, 2016 Greg Pratt
Emperor’s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is one of black metal’s finest moments; join us as we revisit the songs in detail and attempt to rank them in order from worst to best.
STREAMING: Adaestuo “Destroyer Of Constellations (Niszczyciel Gwiazdozbiorów)”
October 10, 2016 Chris Dick
“A shifting vortex of horrific black metal, at first relentless in its force and momentum yet giving way to a metamorphosis that is utterly bleak and haunting. A chilling vocal performance by Hekte Zaren that combines scathing black metal vocals with dismal funeral operatics, sets this gem far apart from the redundant and the mundane.”
Video Premiere: Take Over and Destroy – “Let Me Grieve”
October 7, 2016 Emily Bellino
Get creepy with Take Over and Destroy and some creature features in this new video.
Primitive Origins: Iron Claw’s Iron Claw
October 6, 2016 Greg Pratt
Our second installment of Primitive Origins, where we examine early or obscure proto-metal and other interesting metallic relics, looks at the crashing, bashing proto-doom of Scotland’s Iron Claw.