As anyone who's caught them live will tell you, Red Fang are downright riff masters and this title track from their forthcoming album "Arrows"...

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Don’t know about you, but this is just what the doctor ordered, classic death metal with no frills, overflowing with catchy, cranium-crushing riffs. You...

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There are a million ways to promote an album, but in a style like Black Metal which originates huge discussions about what is authentic or...

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By this point learned metalheads shouldn't have to be told that Tombs are a top-shelf act. Their coming out party, 2011's Path of Totality,...

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Any metal fan worth their weight in salt should know the indelible mark Eyehategod has made on the scene since the 90s. They practically...

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Much of the time one's enjoyment of a particular band or album comes down to taste. Sometimes that taste is the bile rising in...

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One of the best things about my “job” as a metal writer is discovering new bands. Sometimes the bands themselves are new, and sometimes...

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Recently signed to Relapse Records, Italy’s Cripple Bastards have been dishing out their form of abrasive and punishing grindcore since 1988, and no one...

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A number of things link the countries of Canada and Sweden (besides being my two favourite). Both have similar climates, Green elected officials, excellent...

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I can't say I wasn't expecting a challenge when approaching From All Purity, the newest from Chicago doom miscreants Indian. But I wasn't expecting...

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The self-proclaimed “Hatebreed for wimps” act Weekend Nachos are at it again with another release on the Upper Darby, Pennsylvania record label, Relapse Records....

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Rejoice, all ye thrash fans and revivalists. Toxic Holocaust has released a new record, and it is everything you’ve come to know (and hopefully...

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I should like Perigea Antahkarana more. The latest from Wolvserpent, it hits plenty of the targets of what I enjoy: blackened doom, drone, expansive...

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There are enough female-fronted doom-based bands around anymore that it almost becomes its own subgenre. You could probably name a half-dozen in the blink...

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Two years after their debut record for Relapse ‘Harhakuvat’, Finland’s Unkind return with another vicious slab of crust-infused d-beat hardcore, which sounds darker, harsher...

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Billed as a cross between Mogwai and Tragedy in their press materials, which, for some strange reason, really piques our interest, Finland’s Unkind return with...

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Experimental, dark ambient / noise trio Locrian have premiered their new video for 'Exiting The Halls Of Vapor And Light', off of their new...

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Savannah's riff-meisters Black Tusk have unveiled a new video for the song ‘Truth Untold’ from their new EP ‘Tend No Wounds’, which is now...

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Freshly signed to Relapse Records, Portland’s Lord Dying have recently released their impressive debut full-length 'Summon the Faithless’, which boasts some of the purest and...

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Who would have thought that an eight year break from recording new material, which ended in 2011 with the release of the scathing ‘All...

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