When I first received Shakhtyor's debut EP from my dear editor, we were at first struck by how much the band's name sounded like...

With a name like All Pigs Must Die, you expect greatness right off the bat. I mean come on, how much more instantly confrontational can your...

A good live album is more than just a document of a band's performance. It should do more than just capture the instrumentation and...

When I had the pleasure of interviewing vocalist Hideki Fukasawa and drummer Junji Narita of Japanese doom heavyweights Church of Misery at last year's Maryland Deathfest,...

It's easy to think that post-metal's jumped the shark. Like post-rock before it, it almost seems to have become too formulaic. The build-climax-release formula...

Mastodon may be the perennial heroes to emerge from the Georgia sludge/metal scene, but for my money Kylesa are the ones to beat these...

The time has come once again for one of the most hallowed names in metal to rear their heads and spit out a dark,...

A wise man once told me that good metal comes at two speeds-incredibly fast and incredibly slow. My first loves in metal were the...

In case you happened to be an old school hair metal fan, don’t get excited, there’s only one z in this Alcatraz. Polar opposite...

So I’m back from my hiatus to find my fellow Metal Blast-ers have had kind of a time of it. Jon had the dubious...