Nicholas Franco

There are death metal bands and then there are bands like Holland’s Pestilence. Emerging in the eighties as the genre was just taking flight, they first gained worldwide recognition with 1989’s Consuming Impulse. As the last decade of the millennium commenced, they saw their vocalist ... Read More

There are few musical genres more argued over than black metal. You have the purists who demand a strict adherence to Satanism, you have the new generation of hipsters with their mind-bending take on things, as well as the Norse hordes still churning out the ... Read More

Made in Taiwan is something we’ve all seen before; on toys, clothes, and a ton of other things. We haven’t seen it too often on a musical album, especially an extreme metal one. Unbeknownst to the cushy western world in which we dwell, Taiwanese metal ... Read More