There are few mainstays in the world of extreme metal who have been as consistent in their quantity and quality of releases, yet as varied…
Blackened progressive metal is all the rage these days: the metal scene boasts a growing hunger for ever-greater nuance while still craving the destitute abandon…
Muddying the water between black metal and post metal, French metallers Vous Autres move to further cement their style and entrench place in extreme music…
With an undeniable penchant for darkness, Season of Mist has a keen eye for unique musical gems scattered across the world. Further diversifying an already…
Just shy of a decade ago folk metal was enjoying explosive heyday, excitement abound as once-strange instruments such as the jaw harp and hurdy gurdy…
A name eponymous with the dawn of extreme folk metal itself, Finntroll are poised to impress with their return album “Vredesvävd.” Seven years of studio…
On Valentine’s Day the world was presented with the barren aural landscapes of Ihsahn’s “Telemark,” the first in a promised duo of EPs that would…
There must be some secret hidden in the ocean-washed cliffsides of Iceland which holds the key to making extreme metal, for though the population of…
Death metal band Kataklysm will be releasing their fourteenth studio album “Unconquered” on September 25th, following two years after their prior album “Meditations.” With the…
As broad and difficult to define as the sweeping and diverse geography which characterizes their home state, Texas-based Oceans of Slumber return with an album…
