A wise man once told me that good metal comes at two speeds-incredibly fast and incredibly slow. My first loves in metal were the...

So I’m back from my hiatus to find my fellow Metal Blast-ers have had kind of a time of it. Jon had the dubious...

It’s really cool when you find something that doesn’t perfectly fit into the box of any one genre. There are tons of bands out...

Don’t judge books (or albums) by their covers. Case in point: looking at the debut full-length by Ireland’s Eternal Helcaraxe, I was momentarily afraid...

I like black metal. I would even go so far as to say that I like most types, subgenres and national variations of black...

Can you make a metal album without distorted guitars? The Melvins tried with The Bootlicker, and like everything Buzzo and co. have done, your...

At some point in the last few years, France became a pretty great place for burgeoning metal. Between Alcest’s conquest of the black metal...

Borknagar’s been the European black metal version of the Travelling Wilburys since the mid-90s, peddling their brand of melodic, symphonic black metal with a...

When former Nevermore shred maestro Jeff Loomis released his first solo album, Zero Order Phase, in 2008, he gave every assurance that it was...

As the site’s biggest Cynic fan, I was excited to learn that Season of Mist would be officially issuing The Portal Tapes for the...