American Metal Archives

Texas Hippie Coalition - Gunsmoke / MNRK Heavy (2024)

Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockOctober 4, 2024

It has been a little over a year since Texas Hippie Coalition released the album The Name Lives On. Put out back on April 21, 2023, it was heavy, loud, and full of fantastic Hard Rock/Heavy Metal grooves. Something that is still very fresh and ... Read More

Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockFebruary 23, 2024

Of all the American Metalcore acts to emerge from the early 2000s that stake claim of being influenced by Swedish Melodic Death Metal, arguably the most pronounced of them would have to be Darkest Hour. Out of the Washington DC area, Darkest Hours’ roots date ... Read More

Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockOctober 23, 2023

Over the last twenty years, it seems like there has been an absence of gritty, downright dirty heavy Rock-n-Roll. However, one constant in this rather thin period of time has been the Texas Hippie Coalition. An act driven by heavy guitars, thick grooves, rough leading ... Read More

Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeOctober 3, 2022

Any Heavy Metal music that can perk up the ears of a cat is automatically deemed worth listening to. As it has been royally tested, Extreme Metal masters Goatwhore have passed this feat with flying colors on their new album Angels Hung from The Arches of ... Read More

Interview – Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch

CrypticRockCrypticRockMay 19, 2018

Keep your eye on the prize, ignore naysayers, never stop trying, and the odds are you will go far. As cliché as it sounds, it is the damn truth, and who is more solid proof than modern Metal behemoth’s Five Finger Death Punch. Adored by ... Read More

Interview – Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoMay 4, 2018

Releasing their twelfth overall studio album, Incorruptible, back in June of 2017, American Heavy Metal institution Iced Earth is entering their third decade as standard-bearers for Heavy Metal music in its purest, most honest form. The man at the helm is one Jon Schaffer, whose ... Read More

American Metal

Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (Album Review)

Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (Album Review)

Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On (Album Review)

Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven (Album Review)

Interview – Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch

Interview – Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth

Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (Album Review)

Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (Album Review)

Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On (Album Review)

Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven (Album Review)

Interview – Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch

Interview – Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth

This Week In Horror Movie History – Stigmata (1999)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Flash Gordon (1980)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Visiting Hours (1982)

Developing Artist Showcase – Vipërwitch

Developing Artist Showcase – Vermilia

Developing Artist Showcase – Black Smoke Trigger

Interview – Clayne Crawford & Summer Shelton

Interview – Bishop Briggs

Interview – Henry Thomas & Sarah Lind

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

The The – Ensoulment (Album Review)

Blood Star (Movie Review)