FRACTAL GATES – One With Dawn (Album Review)
Melodies set adrift amid the stars.Originality is a difficult feat to accomplish, let alone maintain, in the long-running and ever-expanding art of melodic death metal,…
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MIND’S MIRRORS – Forever Is Not Nearly Long Enough (Album Review)
Veteran minds mirror an obscure past.In recent years there has been a healthy fixation among American power metal bands with the divergent take on the…
RIOT V – Mean Streets (Album Review)
Johnny owns these here streets.The name Riot is all but synonymous with that of power metal, if not American heavy metal as a whole. Born…
RAGE – Afterlifelines (Album Review)
Twice the splendor, twice the fury.The Teutonic metal scene has crafted many legends in the past four decades, but few can claim the expansive and…
TOMORROW’S RAIN – Ovdan (Album Review)
A dirge of existential fatalism.The glory days of 90s European death/doom and its more commercially accessible gothic offshoots might seem like a bygone era amid…
WHILE SHE SLEEPS – Self Hell (Album Review)
Enter the self-imposed perdition. Sticking to what works doesn’t necessarily entail staying in the same place, and with nearly 20 years of experience now in…
KID KAPICHI – There Goes The Neighbourhood (Album Review)
Few things can make an impression like a consistent and uncompromising work ethic, and one thing that Hastings native Kid Kapichi can’t be accused of…
SULDUSK – Anthesis (Album Review)
In cold blackness, a new flower blooms.Sometimes innovation doesn’t necessarily take on the form of a new sub-genre being born or something that seems unrecognizable…
VLTIMAS – Epic (Album Review)
A new blackened epic is unveiled. Expectations are often the sworn enemy of any union of known quantities, or super groups to use the common…
DAVID VINCENT Discusses VLTIMAS Upcoming Album “Epic”: “We Put A Lot Of Blood, Sweat & Tears Into This Record”
When considering the origin of death metal, and especially its early development in Tampa, Florida; few can claim to have made such a consequential impact…
