<p>Rather unbelievably the Norwegian band's seventh full-length, <I>Blood Red Throne</I> represents the death metal stalwarts at their most stripped-down and back-to-bloody-basics. As usual, it's pret...

<p>Christos Antoniou of <b>Septicflesh</b> studied music composition and orchestration at London College of Music, and one outfit (a pretty successful one too) is not enough for him to showcase the kn...

<p>Australia's <b>Denouncement Pyre</b> are back following 2010's rather good <i>World Cremation</i>, still sounding something like <b>Belphegor</b> meets <b>Angelcorpse</b> in style but also still ...

<p>I haven't seen a whole lot of doom metal out of Spain, but doom newcomers <b>Hela</b> (the name comes from the Norse goddess of the underworld) give some good reasons to look for more if they're a...

<p><b>Immolation's</b> album <i>Majesty and Decay</i> back in 2010 was an absolute powerhouse in terms of death metal releases. After coming off of that masterful release, I had a lot of excitement t...

<p>Staying on the primitivism trajectory, while grabbing from the same Hells Headbangers pile, the next in line (after <b>Satanic Threat</b>) was Joel Grind's solo <b>Yellowgoat</b> project, his only ...

<p>Hearing about this show by chance and managing to book at the last minute after struggling with the ticket website, it was something of a miracle when I finally entered the venue. The NQ Live (the ...

<p>When an album drops into your promotional inbox bearing that title and that artwork, something like <b>Dødheimsgard</b> meets <b>Electric Wizard</b>, you can only bump it up to the top of your to-d...

<p>Cleveland. My favorite little mistake-by-the-lake city, where girls go missing for a decade … Don't know what I am talking about, start following some US national news. Anyway, I like Cleveland. As...