Sam
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Sam's first experience in the world of heavy metal was convincing his mother to buy him a Limp Bizkit cassette from his local Sam Goody. In his defense, he was twelve, and he soon realized the error of his ways once he started to actually listen to it. But once he impulse-bought Black Sabbath's Paranoid a few years later, his brain was set aflame with a lust for all things heavy. Sam's been on a never-ending quest for the most monstrous of riffs ever since, and while he's found a myriad of bands to worship, he will never be satisfied. When not slaving away on this site, he spends his time shackled to schoolwork and graduate research in New York City.
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Cokegoat – Vessel
I feel like atmospheric sludge went into a slump almost as soon as it started to blossom. There are groups like Isis, who can...
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Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica
Some bands are content with finding their niche and spending their entire careers in it. They might write the same song every time, but...
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Gravehill – Death Curse
Heavy metal has always been about extremity. Ever since that legendary band of Brummers first created the sound back in 1970, every metal band...
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Pilgrim – II: Void Worship
Doom metal is an eternal struggle, a tug-of-war between two inexorable forces. On the one hand, you have overpowering riffs set to a glacial...
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Ringworm – Hammer of the Witch
Spinal Tap were the first band to make the amps go up to eleven. They could have just made ten louder than normal, but...
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Mount Salem – Endless
One of my favorite left-field answers to the dreaded “what kind of music do you listen to” question is “caveman music.” It gets a...
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Nothing – Guilty of Everything
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...
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Sahg – Delusions of Grandeur
Situations like these are why I hate giving albums numerical scores. If you can recognize a band's talent and skill, but also recognize that...
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Indian – From All Purity
In terms of music that sounds absolutely hateful, sludge metal is the scene you can always count on to keep pushing the envelope. Whether...
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The Vintage Caravan – Voyage
I've often compared stoner metal to pizza because it's really hard to do poorly. When it's good, it's the most incredible thing on Earth...
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