Skepticism – Ordeal
… There may be no more surprising sound on a metal record this year than the bursts of applause heard following certain songs on Ordeal, the new album by funeral doom innovators Skepticism. Granted,...
View ArticleMr Bungle’s Disco Volante Turns 20
… For several generations of listeners, it was the music of Frank Zappa that introduced the idea that rock/pop and the avant garde could co-exist when tempered with liberal doses of goofiness and...
View ArticleTop Albums of 2015, by Jason Bailey
… Personally, I didn’t feel 2015 was as strong a year for metal as the past three years, which made compiling this list a little harder. Not because I couldn’t pick ten albums I really enjoyed—I could...
View ArticleInter Arma –‘Paradise Gallows’
… Richmond’s Inter Arma are one of the more forward-thinking bands in metal today, but there’s still something very classic about their approach. In blurbs, they’re often described as some kind of...
View ArticleType O Negative’s ‘October Rust’ Turns 20
… For the unprepared, the two curveball tracks that open October Rust come across as the kind of pointless indulgences that marred the compact disc era. Track one is forty seconds of low buzzing meant...
View ArticleGreatest Hits: Heavy Metal Be-bop
… It’s always refreshing to read interviews with musicians that don’t come across as totally pro forma. Hank Shteamer’s Heavy Metal Be-bop series is a perfect example. Talking to luminaries like Greg...
View ArticleM. Lamar –“Carrying” (Video Premiere)
Photo By Eric McNatt … New York City-based artist/musician M. Lamar’s aesthetic vision is so uniquely his own, that no matter what entry point draws a listener into his music, they’re likely to...
View ArticleSelcouth –“Below Hope” (Song Premiere)
… Proving there’s more to the Finnish scene that folk metal and funeral doom, Selcouth deliver inspired avant-metal in this new track “Below Hope”, taken from their upcoming album Heart is the Star of...
View ArticleSurrounded By Thieves & Remission Turn 15
… In the early 90’s, Relapse Records put out some of the first official releases of iconic bands like Suffocation, Incantation and Deceased. Relapse built on this early success by adding veteran...
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