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
Serpentine Path – Serpentine Path
Sometimes I hate the hype machine. If I had a dollar for every time I bought into something that sounded great on paper and...
Reviews
Om – Advaitic Songs
In a way, the legendary Dopesmoker was almost a prophetic vision of what the two now-legendary post-Sleep projects would look like. On the one...
Interviews
Witchcraft (Ola Henriksson) Interview
"I remember last summer when we started rehearsing for real, it was like we were sixteen again, you know? That feeling you had when...
Reviews
Botanist – III: Doom in Bloom / Allies
Over the past two years, the enigmatic one-man band known as Botanist has proved himself to be an artist to watch. The previous double...
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Witchcraft – Legend
Witchcraft is one of the bands I blame for getting me into doom metal in the first place. I remember picking up a split...
Reviews
Satan’s Satyrs – Wild Beyond Belief!
I've decided to save up and buy a Harley. Most people would buy motorcycles out of a desire for unbridled freedom, the wish to...
Reviews
ShEver – Rituals
I don't know what it is about doom metal, but there seems to be a much higher concentration of women playing it when compared...
Reviews
The Great Old Ones – Al-Azif
Quite possibly the most influential horror writer of the last century, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft pale in comparison only to the masterworks of...
Reviews
Grime – Grime
The best albums to come out of sludge metal have always sounded dangerous. It's always far too easy to mask a lack of ideas...
Reviews
The Foreshadowing – Second World
It's an unfortunate fact - or fortunate, depending on your point of view - that most, if not all gothic metal nowadays rips most...
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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...