Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Album artwork by James Koehnline] As much as I love and appreciate the fact that my metal foundation was fortified by growing up alongside the genre in the ‘80s as a youth, I owe a great deal of my undying …
[Cover art by Fenomeno Design] Did you know that Chile is pretty darn good at death metal? If not, you must be new around these parts, in which case, I say, welcome friend! We’re glad to have you here and …
It’s a magical corner of the musical world where a band can combine an infectious nature with extreme oddness, and it’s in that corner that Idaho’s Seven Chains makes their home. Make no mistake about it, third album Swollen, In …
[Cover art by Claudio Elias Scialabba] Italy’s Into Darkness has been a band for approximately 15 years but is just now releasing its first full length album, Route to the Other Side, but all that time has been greatly beneficial …
originally written by Erik Thomas With this record as arguably one of the more anticipated black metal releases of the year, Sweden’s Watain has a pretty monumental task following both the highly regarded Sworn to the Dark (an album …
Originally written by Melissa Mercury. If there’s one thing that’s lacking in the modern black metal scene today, it is this: conviction. Albums from countless bands are delivered in droves to the MR headquarters on a daily basis. …
I’m a collector, one of those obsessive types who has to at least hear every scrap of music he possibly can, if only to know not to hear it again. Over time, I’ve given up …
For anyone keeping track of Finnish metal, Tarot bassist / vocalist Marco Hietala is also a member of operatic metallers Nightwish. Like Nightwish, Tarot sports a pristine production and an epic expanse, and in pompous …
originally written by Erik Thomas 2010 has seen some solid grindcore from the likes of Misery Index, Defeatist, Sayyadina, Wormrot, Infanticide and others, but how about the second effort from Australia’s Beyond Terror Beyond Grace for something out of …
“Horror has a face…and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends.” Mordax is yet another band that mixes together two extreme genres of music that once graced our …
Void of Silence hail from the Italian peninsula, representing doom metal in the ongoing class action lawsuit of Substance v. Presentation. Alright, that’s bullshit, but if such a case really did exist, The Grave of …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Over the past eighteen months or so, the Madden brothers have been quietly making a name for themselves in independent metal circles. No, not those eyeliner-clad cockbags that make a …
