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

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 with Last Poem / Firs...

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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 most of the...

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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 all of ...

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

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

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