It's been a couple of years since I last came across an album-length metal song. Lesbian's 2013 album Forestelevision and 2014’s Capture of Ziz...

I’ve never listened to Moonsorrow before Jumalten Aika. I fell off the folk wagon for a while last year, and, like many others, I’m...

Voivod's Target Earth was an astounding album. Despite being their first album without the from late guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, it was able to...

Although it's been roughly a decade since Ignite's last studio album was released, from the first moments of A War Against You, they make...

The Direction of Last Things is not only the fifth album to come from Intronaut, but also,  as they point out in their press release, one...

When Todd La Torre joined the beleaguered battleship Queensrÿche in 2012, helping them to create their most squarely metallic album in well over a...

Returning with their third album, the metalcore quintet of Heart of a Coward go for a semi-conceptual style on Deliverance, with two pairs of...

In the year 2010, the band known as Odyssey cast off the title they shared with an American disco act and became Black Temple... a...

Heads Held High begins with a song titled “Farewell” which I assume is supposed to be ironic. The song almost lives up to its...

Gimmicks are not new in metal. From Manowar’s homoeroticism to Venom’s faux Satanism, many bands have tried to appeal to a certain niche by...