The Metal Mayan
Ringworm - Seeing Through Fire (Nuclear Blast)
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...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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The Metal Mayan
- Mar 10
Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith (Century Media)
Though far from any frozen fjords or deep forests, Las Vegas, Nevada, is not without its ample sphere of influence in the world of...
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The Metal Mayan
- Mar 4
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade Records)
For many years, bands such as Meshuggah, Tool, and Opeth have been affectionately referred to as 'thinking (hu)man's metal'. From...
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The Metal Mayan
- Mar 3
Elysion - Bring Out Your Dead (Massacre Records)
----- 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...
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The Metal Mayan
- Feb 21
Enslaved - Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...
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The Metal Mayan
- Feb 12
Distant - Heritage (Century Media Records)
Deathcore: an extreme subgenre of hardcore and death metal that carried a nearly two decade long history of adoring fans and resentful...
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The Metal Mayan
- Nov 25, 2022
Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World (Lupus Lounge)
Since its inception, black metal has long been a style meant to take the listener to a different plain of existence. Sometimes it's to...
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The Metal Mayan
- Nov 20, 2022
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm Records)
With temperatures dropping below freezing in the northeastern United States but the full force of Mother North still to come, the season...
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