A mainstay in the underground music scene since 1980; Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein may be best known for his involvement with various incarnations of the Misfits, and of course his wearing of the famous Devilock hairstyle. The famed guitarist from New Jersey has been hard...
Seven quality albums in eleven years might seem like too tall an order for most bands. For Faroese pagan metal warriors Týr, its simply business as usual. After all, the people of the Faroe Islands are no strangers to hard work. The hardy fishing industry...
There must be something in the water in Sweden. For a country with such a small population, they have managed to churn out a slew of the world’s finest and brightest heavy metal bands. One city always at the creative epicenter, famed Gothenburg (Göteborg), even...
It’s not often a band is credited with pioneering two musical sub-genres. From the English town of Liverpool Carcass arguably gave birth to both grindcore and melodic death metal, doing so in just the first ten years of their existence. Between 1985 and 1995 the...
One of the most consistent and productive bands in the heavy metal pantheon, Helsinki’s own Amorphis dropped their 11th album Circle back in April of this year, once more to critical acclaim. Hard at work since 1990, the Finnish six-piece has evolved from three guys...
Go to any metal show these days and try to tally up the Amon Amarth shirts and patches you spot in the crowd. You will probably lose count. Such is the popularity of the Viking-themed metal troupe from Tumba, Sweden whose grip on their very...
