The Metal Mayan
Batushka, Swallow the Sun, Stormruler @ The Brooklyn Monarch
After centuries of bringing together countless cultures and heritages, New York City has seen just about everything. Yet, even nowadays,...
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The Metal Mayan
- Jul 22
Signs Of The Swarm - Amongst The Low & Empty (Century Media)
It takes a special sort of band to develop a reputation that includes veteran moshers catching their breath after a set and remarking on...
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The Metal Mayan
- Jun 21
Xasthur - Inevitably Dark (Lupus Lounge)
There are few bands that garner the same respect and reverence among extreme metal fans like Xasthur (pronounced 'Zass-thurr'). Like...
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The Metal Mayan
- Jun 15
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain (MNRK Heavy)
As the timeless saying goes, 'everything is bigger in Texas', and the place and importance of heavy metal is no exception. While the list...
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The Metal Mayan
- Jun 6
Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife (Napalm Records)
With a legacy dating back over forty five years, the genre of power metal is nearly synonymous with tales of fantastic lands, beasts,...
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The Metal Mayan
- Jun 3
Milwaukee Metal Fest or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Moshpit
"I remember coming here with my son back in '98" he said with a smile, "And here we are again: me, my son, and my grandkids, still...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 24
Pupil Slicer - Blossom (Prosthetic Records)
While certainly not the only time in heavy metal's long and colorful (albeit mostly smeared in black with shades of grey and camouflage)...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 19
Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (Spinefarm)
When it comes to visual art, such as abstract sculptures or surrealist paintings, the longer one stares at the object, the more they see....
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The Metal Mayan
- May 13
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm Records)
Without much thought, one could easily recite a handful of movies, books, or songs that dealt with the concept of 'if tomorrow was your...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 11
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (Metal Blade Records)
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...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 7
Currents - The Death We Seek (SharpTone Records)
While many are familiar with the second half of Friedrich Nietzsche's quote regarding gazing into the abyss, not all can recite the first...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 6
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous (Century Media)
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...
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The Metal Mayan
- May 3
Moonspell, Eleine, Oceans of Slumber @ The Brooklyn Monarch
Between the endless sea of low hanging clouds and the misty rain falling from them, it was a Saturday where good company would be most...
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The Metal Mayan
- Apr 23
Whitechapel, Archspire, Signs of the Swarm, Entheos @ The Gramercy Theater
Making their way into the Gramercy Theater, a group of friends discussed the game plan for the evening as their bags and tickets were...
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The Metal Mayan
- Apr 19
Enforced - War Remains (Century Media)
Among the many intertwined branches of the heavy metal family tree, crossover thrash is often considered the offspring of hardcore punk...
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The Metal Mayan
- Apr 16
Morbid Angel, Revocation, Vitriol, Crypta @ The Gramercy Theater
----- Author's note: this review is dedicated to the memory of Fred Livingston Jr., to our fellow metalheads and their families...
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The Metal Mayan
- Apr 9
Enslaved, Insomnium, Black Anvil @ Irving Plaza
Despite a week of increasingly warm days, a lone Wednesday stood out as the chosen window for winter to make one last stand before bowing...
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The Metal Mayan
- Apr 6
Austin Meade, The Azures @ The Mercury Lounge
As the dividing line between the hip and artistic Greenwich Village and the styling shops of SoHo and Nolita, Houston Street is a New...
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The Metal Mayan
- Mar 25
Woe Unto Me - Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory Audio)
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...
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The Metal Mayan
- Mar 20
Sermon - Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic Records)
There is something pure about anonymous art and music, an intimacy of sorts where listeners can focus on the material rather than the...
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