Voyager – 311 311 has been unfairly labelled nü-metal and/or rap rock because of its commercial explosion in the late nineties. Whether the aforementioned styles are regarded by one as complimentary or pejorative, the band is so much more. Granted,…
Human Target – THY ART IS MURDER
Human Target – THY ART IS MURDER Whether you regard it as the last word in bone-crunching heaviness or a watered-down version of brutal death metal for ADHD kids, deathcore plainly isn’t going away any time soon. And frankly, nor…
Entrance To The Otherwhere – ROGGA JOHANSSON
Entrance To The Otherwhere – ROGGA JOHANSSON If death metal had its own dictionary, the entry for “prolific” would read, simply: “see ROGGA JOHANSSON for details.” Given how ridiculously productive the Swede has been over the last two decades, it’s…
The Decaying Light – DISENTOMB
The Decaying Light – DISENTOMB With some bands, you can just feel it. With DISENTOMB, it’s the difference between voyeuristically watching a massacre and knowingly being complicit in the bloodshed: this is death metal, of course, but “The Decaying Light”…
Outstrider – ABBATH
Outstrider – ABBATH It was inevitable that the true nature of the men involved in the notorious Norwegian black metal scene would eventually come to light. Whether it was pissing contest-like posturing or outright insanity, and sometimes it was a…
