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Monthly Archives: January 2012
New Solstafir Video Isn’t Metal But It’s Awesome
“Fjara” isn’t one of Solstafir‘s more metallic tracks. In fact, much of last year’s Svartir Sandar sees the Icelandic post-blackmetal/psychedlia outfit depart from their black metal roots completely. Whatever you call it, the resulting melancholy acid trip is put to … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Riot – Fire Down Under (RIP Mark Reale)
As many of you heavy metal diehards surely know, Mark Reale, guitarist of American heavy metal legends Riot passed away this last Wednesday from complications due to Crohn’s disease. They never attained the mass success of Judas Priest, Deep Purple … Read the rest of this entry →
Mortad: Newcomers To Ladyland
A lot of female fronted metal bands are hitting their stride as of late. Bands of all genres are leaving gender roles in the dust as they burn at metal’s scalding pace. But one must ask, if metal bands are, … Read the rest of this entry →
The Kandidate Like Short Songs and Long Album Titles
Everyone loves a band that makes you want to get together with your buds, drink a teener of Budweiser, and sit around a camp fire whilst screaming and showing off your best air guitar moves. Bands that are heavy enough … Read the rest of this entry →
More Metalheads Should Listen To Cancer Bats
I don’t know much about Cancer Bats besides the fact that these Canadians have been around for about half a decade and have released 4(?) albums consisting of solid metallic hardcore. Like my new favorite metallic hardcore band Black Breath, … Read the rest of this entry →
New Born of Osiris Video Reminds That There Is Hope For Progy Djenty Metalcore
I’ve always defended Born of Osiris from my critical friends. Partially because I enjoy a good logical scrap once in a while but also because these guys are great live and provide for some genuine musical originality in “scene” often … Read the rest of this entry →
Jerry Cantrell: The New Voice Of SeaTac Airport
So this is great. In an attempt to expose travelers to Seattle’s vast musical resume, the Port of Seattle in collaboration with the Seattle Music Commission and PlayNetwork are launching The SeaTac Airport Music Initiative, Experience The City of Music. … Read the rest of this entry →
Weekend War Cry: Riot – Fire Down Under
As many of you already know, Mark Reale, guitarist of heavy metal legends Riot, passed away last week from complications due to Crohn’s Disease. Probably wouldn’t be wise to try to explain how awesome his work was here. Still, I’m … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: The Sarcophagus – A Turkish Delight
Ok, so. Once upon a time there were about a dozen bands called Sarcophagus, most of whom played some noisy form of black metal or another. Then came along some savvy lads from Turkey and took a page from Ohio … Read the rest of this entry →
New Red Fang Video Is All Portlandia
This was filmed in Portland, they say. No shit, says I. This video is sure to make waves with anyone who lives in the Northwest, particularly Portland, or anyone who watches Portlandia and understands the kinds of characters that inhabit … Read the rest of this entry →
Sons of Northwestern Darkness: Theories
Our catch of the day is always fresh and always local. Meet the organic and farm raised Theories. We’re unable (or unwilling) to find much information about Theories but their style of deathgrind is pretty engaging. You can’t even purchase … Read the rest of this entry →
Another Load of Metal Ammo From the Chinese Mainland: Dinkumoil, Tengger Cavalry, Skeletal Augury, Varuna
If you recall we did this before with some really interesting groove and folk metal bands last time around. This time we have some NWOTHM, thrash metal, atmospheric black metal and other fun stuff. Dunkumoil (thrash/heavy metal), Tengger Cavalry (blackened … Read the rest of this entry →
New Drudkh Track is Drudkh
These guys have got to be about as close to be a nihilist’s house band that exists. The thing about Ukarine’s Drudkh is that they seem to be a big influential root for other awesome atmopherc black metal acts. Artists … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: The Exploited Circa 1996
It was a tough go deciding between Beat the Bastards and 1990′s The Massacre. Though the latter seems much more snarling, spitting and downright angry, the former is more metallic. Scottish legends The Exploited were the definition of crossover, evolving … Read the rest of this entry →
Aborted: World Killers Take It One Zombie At A Time
Raise your hand if you like Carcass! {99% of the people who read this site will probably raise their hand} Who doesn’t love the medical jargon based grind that Carcass helped invent? Now, raise your hand if you like Carcass … Read the rest of this entry →
Lou Siffer’s Howlings Demons
Sounding something like a psychobilly band with a groove metal edge, Lou Siffer & the Howling Demons are certain to make headway with fans of punk, groove metal and Motorhead. American hot rods, speed demon imagery and sweet suspenders are the … Read the rest of this entry →
Four Gems of 2011 You Should Check Out: Mors Subita, Balfor, Battlecross, Horned Almighty
The following four artists may lie just beyond the radar of today’s busy on-the-go metalhead. Though these wouldn’t make it into a top 15 of 2011 for me, they are undoubtedly some of the most solid, consistent and purposeful records … Read the rest of this entry →
Pharaoh is Cool.
Prog/power is not generally my favorite genre. I simply have too much thrash in my blood to stomach much of it. However, after how much I enjoyed the latest Voyager record, I’ve been all zen-like towards any band that crafts … Read the rest of this entry →
Whaddaya Call A Bunch of Dirty Viking Dudes Jamming in the Dark? The New Suidakra Video
Yeah that’s pretty much it. Oh, no, there are also some random skulls and flames and stuff. Pretty cool. If you’re unfamiliar with Suidakra, these Germanic black/death/folk metallists have been one of the most consistent bands of the folk metal … Read the rest of this entry →
Orange Goblin: A Eulogy for the Damned
Orange Goblin have been a beacon of consistency but it’s been increasingly difficult to stick them in the same stoner metal corner with each subsequent album. The thunderous riffage, tight drumming, gruff vocal hooks and White Zombie-ish biker charm still … Read the rest of this entry →