Progressive rock had its inexplicable day in the sun a decade ago, when The Mars Volta, Motorpsycho and Porcupine Tree were selling out huge...

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It’s never all that fun to hate on a record, particularly by a small band willing to try new things. But here I sit...

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Is it a bad thing to be stereotyped as full of big ideas? Junius approaches that line on Days of the Fallen Sun, a...

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Time for a confession: I don’t listen to metal lyrics. Hell, about 90 percent of the time I can’t understand a single word on...

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Best Metal Albums of 2013, by Matt Hinch 1. Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker) I'm unashamed of my total bias towards Clutch. Part of...

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Party-metal is a genre that should really be much more popular than it is. Bands in this style sound like they wrote and recorded...

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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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Watain seems like one of those bands we assume are important because everyone else does too. As soon as release copies of 'The Wild...

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Heavy as hell and strange as sin, 'World Keeps Sinking' is a weird record. The latest from Milwaukie’s Northless, it trades in sludge of...

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