Category: Features
Moloken – A Brotherhood Of Gloominess
originally written by Juho Mikkonen; band photos by Daniel Falk There’s a peculiar inborn dichotomy between volume and marginality in underground metal. On the other hand, the pint-sized flame that was ignited already forty years …
Cover Ups – 12 Tunes Improved By Metal
Ah, the cover song, that most mixed of bags… Broadly, cover tunes fall into three categories — 1) re-recordings of influential numbers, sometimes largely unimaginative in their faithfulness to the source material, but as often …
An Interview With Massive Slavery
Originally written by Sasha Horn. “No slouches.” Straight from the keystrokes of fellow staffer, Erik Thomas, when he not so long ago took on the task of reviewing Massive Slavery’s latest offering, Global Enslavement. This, above all …
An Interview With Woe – A Treatise On The Elite
Originally written by Jordan Campbell. At long last, the perpetually nascent USBM scene seems to be coming to a boil. In stark contrast to the late 90’s, when the words ‘United States’ and ‘black metal’ typically …
Dave Pirtle’s Top 20 of 2010
So, 2010 sucked ass. 2011 isn’t starting off much better, and I finally figured out why. The year may have ended, but I never pounded the final nail into its coffin by publishing my year-end …
John Ray’s Top 20 Of 2010
I’ve seen a lot of folks talking about how weird 2010 has been. And how shitty. I don’t know how I feel about it yet, except that it went too fucking fast. Or maybe not …
Last Rites’ Best Of 2010 – Combined Staff List
Another year, another list. 2010 brought yet another onslaught of heavy metal, and we at Metal Review sifted through the gross majority of it. Finally, the dust has settled, and all that remains are our …
Captain’s Best Of 2010
Adios, 2010. On a personal level, you were a bastard of a year that I’m happy to finally see in my rear-view mirror. If I could throw a bag over Father Time’s head and bust …