MYRKUR – Spine (Album Review)
By controversy, mystique arises. Black metal’s highly ideological underpinnings have, for right or wrong, made it one of the most parochial scenes within the metal…
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.
By controversy, mystique arises. Black metal’s highly ideological underpinnings have, for right or wrong, made it one of the most parochial scenes within the metal…
The wayward sage has come home. Some legends refuse to die, they just opt to become more reflective with age and find themselves sticking closer…
By his scythe, all shall bow. For every giant that emerges to set a new standard in the metal world, there are often several similar…
Retracing where the primordial, hard rock adjacent origins of heavy metal ended and its more extreme cousin began is a fairly subjective and complex proposition,…
Explosive, forward-thinking thrash arrives at ground zero. Being at the forefront of Spain’s now expansive thrash metal scene, and dating back far enough to stake…
A brutal nod is given to the old school. For most that have been paying attention to what has been going on in metal and…
The old ways are strong again. In the metal realm, it is quite common for the fracturing of old allegiances to forge new ones, though…
30 years to come full circle. In the days when grunge ruled the airwaves and all roads led to Seattle, the latter-day adherent to the…
Slashing metal and frosty melodies abound. Good things can and often do come in small packages, or at least that’s the conclusion one might reach…
It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. Often side-projects that function as de facto super groups can have a tendency of either sounding too…