By popular consensus, Monday may just be everyone's least favorite day of the week. Back to work for most, it represents the end of leisure and a return to the humdrum of the grind. September 15th might just have been another one in a long...
Wolves in the Throne Room, the brainchild of brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver, began life in 2006 playing a brand of metal stylistically akin to Scandinavian black metal, but with heaps of analog synthesizers and dirge-like passages more reminiscent of Neurosis than Emperor. Coming from...
Celebrating forty years of existence, Judas Priest is a band who needs very little introduction. Along with bands like Saxon, Iron Maiden, and Deep Purple, the mighty Priest is directly responsible for spawning heavy metal as we know it today. Unlike Maiden and Saxon, whose...
There is nothing like the fresh, hungry intensity of a young band on the rise. Tight, angry, and sporting a sick bass tone straight out of 1986, Overkill has just released an album called White Devil Armory. Established thrash acts from back in the day...
Andreas Hedlund, aka Vintersorg, is a character many have yet to hear of here in the states, but the truth is the brilliant, hyper-creative Swede has been quietly churning out records since 1994. While his Norwegian neighbors in Satyricon and Ulver are often credited with...
A little over twenty years ago the prosaic, lightly peopled nation of Norway was torn apart by a rash of arson, murders, and general mischief perpetrated by a tiny sect of miscreants known infamously as the Inner Circle. A group of teenagers who gave birth...
Goatwhore, hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, are a hard band to categorize. They resist being put into any one sub-genre, something journalists and fans cannot seem to keep themselves from trying to do. Forming out of the ashes of Acid Bath back in 1997, their...
The line stretched down the block and clear around the corner at Irving Plaza on Monday, June 30th. The masses had gathered to catch two musical prodigies visiting from the American west. Portland, Oregon's Agalloch and Madison, WI mysterious Jex Thoth were in town; a cool...
In a world where the pagan/folk explosion has saturated a once exclusive genre, it is not easy anymore to truly distinguish oneself within pagan metal's bloodied and battle-tested realm. Equilibrium formed back in 2001 in Munich, Bavaria, deep in the heart of heavy metal's...
Godfathers of the Finnish black metal scene along with Beherit and Archgoat, Impaled Nazarene has been defecating their brand of speedy, aggressive black metal since the early 1990's. Steeped in themes of sexual deviancy, Finnish nationalism, and goats; Impaled Nazarene has over eleven studio albums...
