Post-metal, similar to its sonic cousins post-rock, post-hardcore, and post-punk, has always been about creating mood and atmosphere. In the early 90s, bands like...

You can’t always judge an album by its cover, unless you see corpsepaint, inverted crucifixes, and spikes, in which case your assumptions are probably...

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

It has been over eight years since I last paid attention to anything that was put out under the Fear Factory moniker because they...

There must be something in the water in Liverpool. Aside from bestowing upon the world one of the single greatest, universally-acclaimed, beloved, and influential...

It seems that France has quite the underground sludge/doom scene, if Love Sex Machine and Monarch are anything to go by. Formed in 2002, Monarch has distinguished...

It's great when a metal record is able to downright scare you, isn't it? All of black metal's earnest devil-worship can be fun in...

If a band names themselves after one of the largest supertankers ever constructed then the resulting music had better be heavy as balls, and Batillus...