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.
Reviews
The Secret – Agnus Dei
There's no shortage of good deathgrind on Southern Lord produced by Converge's own Kurt Ballou. It's not exactly a small market, but for the most...
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Miss Lava – Red Supergiant
Stoner metal needs good riffs to survive, moreso than any other genre of metal. This is equally true if it's either the dank and...
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Bell Witch – Longing
I always love it when bands strip their formula down to the bare essentials. When it's done right, the results can be some of...
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Geist – Der Ungeist
Underproduced lo-fi black metal - often referred to with any combination of the epithets "raw," "trv," "kvlt," or "necro" - is one of those...
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Hate – Solarflesh
Leave it to a country where blasphemy is a crime to create some of the best death metal on the planet. It's funny how...
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Samothrace – Reverence to Stone
I'd argue that in this digital age, impulse purchases have almost gone the way of the dinosaur. You're able to get at least a...
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Kroh – Kroh
When I got the self-titled LP from English doom metal group Kroh in my inbox, I got pretty excited. It sports members from crust-grind...
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The Sword – Apocryphon
If I had to place the responsibility for my multi-year infatuation with doom metal on the shoulders of one band that isn't Black Sabbath, it would...
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Norska – Norska
I love sludge metal simply because there's so many different ways you can pull it off. There's the angular dissonance of an act like Ramesses,...
Interviews
Katatonia (Jonas Renkse) Interview
"I guess people adapted to what we were doing and got an idea of how we were thinking at the time. So I think a lot of people came back to Katatonia."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPb_jsnY2I
Get Ready for Wacken 2023
Get ready to unleash your metal power because Wacken Open Air is back with a bang for its 2023 edition! Mark your calendars for...