Jonathan is a long time contributor to The Encyclopaedia Metallum website under the pseudonym hells_unicorn and has written for The Metal Observer on and off for the past 10 years. He was previously a lead guitarist in the Philadelphia-based folk metal band Frost Giant and played Dave Murray’s parts for the Philly-based Iron Maiden tribute band Tailgunner. He is currently the guitarist and principal songwriter for the nascent symphonic power metal project Ominous Glory.
Legendary Swedish deathsters HYPOCRISY and Italian symphonic death metallers FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, will return to North America for a co-headlining tour this March/April. Joining them are progressive, extreme metal band AENIMUS. Tickets…
Greek Power Groove Metallers FULL HOUSE BREW CREW featuring a ROTTING CHRIST member in their ranks, have released a new lyric video for ‘Another Life‘, the track is taken…
A new ritual sets forth a grand tribal revolt. With there now being more than two decades of distance since Max Cavalera’s departure from Sepultura,…
Extinction by industrialization and progression. One curious tendency that has developed within progressive-tinged power metal circles over the past 10 or so years has been…
In a world of endless monstrosities. Otherworldly imagery has been the stock and trade of death metal for about as long as the sub-genre has…
Obligatory, apocalyptic images and sounds. Stereotypes seem to be inevitable when a given expression comes of age, and with black metal appropriating the old occult…
Battle rages in the cosmic firmament. One would be remiss to suggest that death metal is a one-dimensional expression at present, but even as far…
Legions of the undead at Grimm’s command. When in the graveyard, do as the corpses do, or at least this would be the advice given…
Cold flames beget a burning frost. Contradictions have little place in the fields of logical inquiry, but in the realm of the arts it is…
Every vile soundtrack needs a prelude, or 12. Melancholy occasions are often wont to make one forget his sense of objectivity, for good or for…
