By Brian Krasman
Thanks to the Internet, tabloid media, and the 24-hour news cycle, we seem to know way too much. Far more than we should. Much of that has carried over into our music, where we seem to demand far more intimacy from artists that we should. What are their names? Their family members’ names? [...]

Mid range and raspy, it sounds like he drinks his Jack Daniels with razor blades.

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by Patrick Musumeche

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This is raw and ugly old school death fucking metal. Done with heart and conviction like the olden and true masters did it!

By: Lord Randall
While it would be easy to write some witty blurb, a couple overdone compliments and abbreviated summary of what got Sweden’s WATAIN where they are and what led to the creation of the most complete and destructive album of their careers, Lawless Darkness, it’s best to let founding vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson take [...]

The riffs are all KILLER. The main riff of each song, the riff that carries the song, are CLASSIC!

Ticket to Hell – Operation: Crash Course
Holy Shit!!!!!!! That’s my initial response to this and anyone with a fraction of a brain knows to follow intuition, so here it is. This blackened thrash death bastard child will snap your chicken neck quicker than Farmer John in a drunken rage with it’s violent and addictive riffs [...]

death noise like this that grabs you and makes you drink the blood and then sticks the knife in fast and clean, but then slows the blade up and twists it inside of you.

by Janet Willis (Defecation of the Divine)
This very recent release of US based funeral symphonic doom act The Howling Void is one of the most powerful albums that I’ve heard this year in terms of creating an encapsulating ominous and 100% isolationist atmosphere. This is definitely the epitome of the sounds of tragedy and despair, [...]