As the fourth quarter of the year rolls in, it can easily be said that 2023 has been packed with incredible releases from rising metal...

When a career of shouting into a microphone spans over 30 years, there sometimes comes a day when the steam starts to thin - the punch...

There are few bands that garner the same respect and reverence among extreme metal fans like Xasthur (pronounced 'Zass-thurr'). Like...

As the timeless saying goes, 'everything is bigger in Texas', and the place and importance of heavy metal is no exception. While the list...

With a legacy dating back over forty five years, the genre of power metal is nearly synonymous with tales of fantastic lands, beasts,...

While certainly not the only time in heavy metal's long and colorful (albeit mostly smeared in black with shades of grey and camouflage)...

When it comes to visual art, such as abstract sculptures or surrealist paintings, the longer one stares at the object, the more they see....

Without much thought, one could easily recite a handful of movies, books, or songs that dealt with the concept of 'if tomorrow was your...

It could be said that from the ashes of a great fire comes a new, mightier forest. Such is the cycle of beginnings and endings, of life...

While many are familiar with the second half of Friedrich Nietzsche's quote regarding gazing into the abyss, not all can recite the first...

In the early 2000s, the heavy metal world was in a rather curious state of affairs. Nu-metal was still arguably the biggest sub-genre on...

Among the many intertwined branches of the heavy metal family tree, crossover thrash is often considered the offspring of hardcore punk...

One of the most radical branches in the world of extreme music, few sub-genres push the limits quite like funeral doom metal. Often times...

Though far from any frozen fjords or deep forests, Las Vegas, Nevada, is not without its ample sphere of influence in the world of...

For many years, bands such as Meshuggah, Tool, and Opeth have been affectionately referred to as 'thinking (hu)man's metal'. From...

----- Author's note: As of this writing, it has been just a couple of days since a terrible train accident happened in Greece. While my...

As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...

Deathcore: an extreme subgenre of hardcore and death metal that carried a nearly two decade long history of adoring fans and resentful...

With temperatures dropping below freezing in the northeastern United States but the full force of Mother North still to come, the season...

Founded 15 years ago, influenced by the likes of Death and Decrepit Birth, and coming to prominence along side bands such as The Faceless...