SONG OF THE WEEK: Dawnbringer – North by North
At once, both classic and modern, both dark and light, both melancholy and transcendent.
Epitaph – Sinner Waketh
There are nine full songs across the album’s ten tracks that pivot between blast, groove and doom and keep the vocal carousel spinning throughout.
Panzerfaust – The Lucifer Principle
The void calls. There is no escape. As a whole, The Lucifer Principle is haunting and ominous, dark as blackest sin, and utterly feral.
Pain of Salvation – The Passing Light of Day
In the Passing Light of Day simply overflows with music of astounding color and textural variety.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Mayhem – Life Eternal
Though their past is rife with violence, murder, suicide, Nazism, and more, they are undoubtedly one of the creators of the sound we now call black metal.
Rudra – Enemy of Duality
Enemy of Duality, is intense in a restrained manner. It is fierce and harsh, but not savage, uncontrollable, but not out of control.
Echelon – The Brimstone Aggrandizement
Sometimes playing an established style to the point of excellence is preferable to masturbatory experimentation. That is certainly the case with Echelon.
Beast in the Field: Closing Thoughts from MI Metalheads
Beast in the Field Calls It Quits After 9 Years of Destroying Eardrums. MI Metalhead community shares stories and prepares to get pulverized one last time.
Society Kills “The Wolf & The Lamb” Album Review
I was handed one of the very first copies of “The Wolf & The Lamb” from Society Kills and intended to have this written and published a long time ago… Instead, I found myself on a quest for a way to listen to the album. You see, I don’t have a CD player...
BoneHawk “Albino Rhino” Album Review
I’ve never had much use for genres, I just listen to music. If it moves me and makes me want to hear it again… I dig it. The BoneHawk genre (whatever damn genre it is) has really hooked me and I was stoked to sit down and give “Albino Rhino” a few good listens.