Some bands are content with finding their niche and spending their entire careers in it. They might write the same song every time, but...

My introduction to the technical side of heavy music came in the form of an album that many hardcore metalheads probably wouldn’t consider to...

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It's hard to know who to blame for this past decade's flood of metal/shoegaze crossover, but when the music is as good as it...

In terms of music that sounds absolutely hateful, sludge metal is the scene you can always count on to keep pushing the envelope. Whether...

The best hardcore will move you. And I don't just mean in the sense that a really beautiful piece of music will move you,...

Like many others, I got into Red Fang with their sophomore LP, Murder the Mountains. That album is a peerless display of good metal songwriting, with...

One of my best friends in the entire world, and one of the main reasons I'm such a metal fanatic, can't stand doom metal...

When I got my hands on True Widow's As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth...

The time has come once again for one of the most hallowed names in metal to rear their heads and spit out a dark,...