Medium Rarities — a jumble of Mastodon's rare tracks, covers, live recordings and instrumentals — is itself a mixed bag, where some things s...
Visionary bands like Bell Witch are a rare commodity. Leave it to the doom duo to stretch a five-song EP out over sixty minutes. Together wi...
The amount of bands that check Cro-Mags as an influence is mind-boggling. As creators of 1986's The Age of Quarrel, Cro-Mags spearheaded a t...
Asking Alexandria might be the most divisive band in modern metal. They inspired a generation of Hot Topic-wearing teens with Stand Up and S...
The word "epic" is overused, but how else do you describe five 10-minute tracks of heavy doom rock? Omens is more of an extended jam session...
Let's face it, 2020 has been one long, hard kick in the teeth so far. Has there ever been a better time for a bummed-out, beautiful Scandina...
It's difficult to find fault with Songs for Pierre Chuvin, a ten-day recording effort to raise some money for the Mountain Goats' road crew...
Their name aside, there's always been something different about Oranssi Pazuzu. Maybe they've always been too weird for most people to stoma...
Oh, Berklee. Metal's relationship with one of the world's most famous music colleges has always been a double-edged sword. Berklee has produ...
There are seven pigs in this band's name, but they might as well be called "Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow," because Viscerals feels like a punch in t...
What are Reflections doing to their poor instruments? Downtuning is as much a part of metal music as blast beats or long hair, but Reflectio...
What is going on at Unique Leader Records lately? In the last few years, they've churned out some of heavy music's most exciting new bands,...
Sepultura's legacy can be divided into three rough eras: Max, Igor and Derrick. Though their name will forever by synonymous with the Cavale...
If the album art didn't convey this enough, Serenity play power metal. Power metal has always been the territory of the nerds, and no band t...
When a band get signed to the mighty Napalm Records with only a four-track demo to their name, you know they've hit something gold. Konvent...
If Annihilator don't get your heart pumping, call a doctor. Few bands sound this pumped on their first album, let alone their 16th, but thes...
Bleak, disturbing, dystopian, apocalyptic — all words that describe Ether Coven's Everything Is Temporary Except Suffering. That makes it a...
Virtually every rock band of the last 50 years owes the Who a debt they can never repay. Apart from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the...
Whatever you think of the Who's recent dark patch — Roger Daltrey's voice problems, Pete Townshend casually saying he "Thanks God" that Keit...
EPs have found new life in the age of streaming, acting as perfect packages for the attention-deficit generation to discover new music. Asta...
