There comes a time for every self-proclaimed metal journalist, when he is faced with a dubious release. You spin the album round and round,...

Whenever a new Cradle of Filth album is released, it is met with either absolute love or pure disdain. Throughout their career the band...

It’s been a turbulent two years in Stone Sour’s career, related to the two of the band members’ main band, Slipknot. The death of...

Although you might need a brief introduction to Undercroft, metal fans from Latin America are all too familiar with the Chilean thrashers. These guys...

Whenever I hear about a new folk/viking/pagan metal band, I always approach their music with a healthy dose of skepticism. The market is packed...

Let's face it, you are a product of your environment. Mentally, you are a constraint of every bad word, sexual innuendo, and inappropriate situation...

I remember the days when power metal was immensely popular, and bands like Stratovarius and Rhapsody (of Fire) filled the venues, charts and TV...

Although you might expect to hear symphonic power of female-fronted gothic metal when you first think of Italy in the context of metal, this...

The music scene can be split into two camps;  bands that take risks and bands that don't. The risks can vary in intensity, from...

"We had an entire day of auditions starting at 11:30am, probably 15 or so characters come in through the door, by about 4:30/5 o’clock we were all kinda beat, ready to go home...'til Jesse walked in the room"