Misery Index – Complete Control (Album Review)
Death Metal and all it's sub-genres have seemingly thrived in a pandemic ridden world...
Death Metal and all it's sub-genres have seemingly thrived in a pandemic ridden world...
Religious beliefs and differences in ideologies has spawned countless war in the course of history. In many cases music is a cathartic release when we look at endless war and destruction of the world. A powerful form of expression, it can build back those protective...
Death Metal, although one of the heaviest sub-genres of Heavy Metal, it is also one of the more universally accepted. One band who has made a significant impact on the more groove and technical varieties of Death Metal since the late '90s is Poland's Decapitated....
Heavy metal encompasses so many vastly different subgenres - from the sparkle of Glam, to the grotesque of Grindcore. One less often traveled path, and in a mainstream very misunderstood, comes Black Metal. Interestingly, in the European Black Metal culture there are a few spinoffs...
What a world it would be if everyone had some sort of psychic or kinetic power abilities to control not only the outcomes of their own lives, but that of others as well. As the 1980 Stephen King Horror novel Firestarter describes, a few characters...
Does aging mean the end to a lifelong musical career? No, it does not. It is actually quite the contrary...
Germany is home to a very globally dominating music scene...
Imagine the deepest, darkest forests of Scandinavia opening up into a field of Black Metal glory with everyone's favorite Black Metal Comedian, Abbath, running into the center. Quite the image, that is what the latest Abbath album Dread Reaver hails into. The third studio album since...
Bands come and go, but when they reunite with original members after many years, the nostalgia creates a warmth even in the coldest soul. Which brings to mind Illinois-originated Industrial Rock outfit Stabbing Westward. A band which blossomed into fruition back in 1985, going onto...
While the first wave of Black Metal had its day with bands such as Venom and Bathory, the second wave brought some gemstones to the scene as well, including Marduk and Dark Funeral. Today, just a bit shy of 30 years after their establishment, Dark...