Today’s trials beget tomorrow’s tears. While nostalgia is usually viewed as an avenue of escape for a more jovial world than the real one, it…
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Teutonic rage arrives in Copenhagen. Whenever a discussion about the glory days of thrash metal comes up, Denmark is not often one of the countries…
At the taverns of the mythological kingdom Tiberon, there seems to be only one topic of conversation. Everybody is talking about a strange tale of…
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…
Welcome to a new liturgical horror. Nostalgia has been a formidable force in defining many of metal’s most recent offerings, regardless of the sub-genre under…
Even eight years after their inception, the lineup of Flying Colors still appears too good to be true: Steve Morse, Neal Morse, Dave LaRue, Casey…
An old maiden emerges with some classic iron. Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but wherein the primeval origins of heavy metal are…
In the pit, impact is always imminent. Whenever a discussion regarding thrash metal’s ascendancy to mainstream fascination in the late 1980s occurs, one of the…
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…