Category: Features
Gems from the Back of the Fridge, Part 1 – Albums You Might Have Missed in 2016
You have a better chance of living off the cash in your tip jar as an embalmer than you would keeping up with every metal release that shoots across this scene’s radar every year. All …
Fast Rites Vol. 10 Summer Doldrums?
The late summer doldrums are here, but many artists are looking beyond the seasons to the stars. Blood Incanation‘s Starspawn currently has tongues wagging, and the new album from Satan-Is-In-The-Cosmos explorers Inquisition is about to drop into everybody’s laps. But, you should …
Incantation in Concert – Hell is Open for Tours
I’ve seen Incantation play live before – once at an open air in the Czech Republic, once in a big Vienna club while they were on tour with Bolt Thrower. The sheer, pure force that radiated from the …
Therion’s Theli Turns 20 – Celebrate The Beautiful Absurdity
Before we dive fully into celebrating Therion’s 1996 album Theli, a couple of disclaimers: First, I have not been listening to this album for 20 years, so I’m not going to sit here and claim …
A Devil’s Dozen – Hypocrisy
Throughout the 1990s, few European metal bands were as consistently great, deceptively complex, and downright catchy as Sweden’s Hypocrisy. From their earliest, more purely death metal days of Penetralia and Osculum Obscenum through to their …
Diamonds And Rust – Exploring Metal Classics: Riot – Fire Down Under
This reviewing gig exposes me to a lot of new metal, for free, and that’s great. But you know what I like more than discovering new metal? I like discovering old metal. For whatever reason, …
Carving A Mixtape – Exercises In Black Metal: Vol. 1
Ever since kindergarten, I have been obsessed with the idea of sharing music with others. Generally, this came in the form of stolen Billy Idol or Led Zeppelin cassette tapes from my parents until that …
Fast Rites – Volume 9
You may or may not have heard, but Heavy Metal at About.com is no more. I was a fixture at the site for nearly a decade, and the short form album review format made up the bulk …