Well.. let me start off by saying “Wow.” Having never heard Greyline before, I wasn’t too sure what to expect. But their latest release, Behind the Masquerade (2010) was really a pleasant surprise, considering I don’t find myself impressed by new music all that often. From the very beginning of [...]
This weekend, we’re bringing you more metal of the doom/sludge variety from the southeastern United States, in the guise of Sourvein and their latest album Black Fangs. Formed in North Carolina, these guys have been around for quite some time now– since 1993– and that really isn’t much of a [...]
Do you remember being an angry teenager? (No, not angsty.. flat-out angry.) Do you remember going to shows on school nights, knowing that you’d have hell to pay come 6 AM the next morning, but not really caring? Do you remember the adrenaline surge you got from being sucked into [...]
From the wreckage of failed punk bands, the southeastern USofA brings us yet another powerhouse in the sludge/stoner/doom metal category– Black Tusk and their sophomore release Passage Through Purgatory. If it seems like I compare bands to Baroness and Kylesa a lot.. well, it’s because I really enjoy those bands [...]
Ok, so maybe I lied a little with my last post, about the whole Southeastern United States-doom/stoner/sludge metal connection. Ok, so maybe not an outright lie, but an error of omission. Of course, that was before I’d ever even heard of Electric Wizard, stoner metal legends of the UK. Formed [...]
They call it the Dirty South for a reason– with bands such as Baroness and Kylesa (both out of Savannah, GA), Torche (Miami, FL), Floor (Central FL), and Mastodon (Atlanta, GA) all producing their own variations of what’s known as “sludge metal,” the Southeastern United States has become a hotbed [...]
Well.. let me start off by saying “Wow.” Having never heard Greyline before, I wasn’t too sure what to expect. But their latest release, Behind the Masquerade (2010) was really a pleasant surprise, considering I don’t find myself impressed by new music all that often. From the very beginning of [...]
Signal Failure is the debut album by US progressive rock/metal duo Jake Rosenberg and John Dillon under the name In Progress. Mark Zonder (Slavior/ex-Fates Warning) plays drums on this album. The album is all about modern progressive rock with two central elements: synthesizer arpeggios and aggressive guitar chords. Sadly, instead [...]
I get a bad feeling when I see a similarity of timings of tracks on an album. Usually it means the songs are a bit samey, and that is exactly the case with this new In Flames album. However, samey isn’t always a bad thing. It can suggest a consistent [...]
The Human Abstract is a progressive metal band out of Los Angeles, California known for not only technical skill but songwriting prowess. After some lineup changes and a switch to a new record label E1 Music, the band has finally released their newest album Digital Veil on March 8, 2011. [...]
If you’d spent the last decade doing the same thing with little reward or recognition, no one would blame you if you decided that perhaps you should give things up and try something a bit different. It’s to their credit, therefore that US based Doom merchants The Living Fields didn’t [...]
Virginian metallers, While Heaven Wept, hold a special place in my heart – but I don’t need to go into why. That’s a conversation for another time. I first became a fan on hearing Vast Oceans Lachrymose, their epic doom release of 2009. I fell in love with it, and went [...]
Released as the fourth and final chapter in the Devin Townsend Project, Ghost displays Townsend’s courage in unveiling an album of truly uplifting and joyous music. The project itself was conceived after his son was born in 2006, and Townsend made the decision to abstain from a familiar lifestyle of alcohol [...]
Many fans lamented the day Devin Towsend closed the book on Strapping Young Lad. Especially with City (1997) and Alien (2005) are landmark records when it comes to sheer sonic violence. He got his act together and started to work on a four album endeavor under the Devin Townsend Project [...]
I have been expectantly waiting for this album for a very long time. The first time I heard Unexpect, it was about 1:30 in the morning. Intrepid Hellbound.ca photographer Adam Wills and I were driving back from Buffalo, NY, where we had seen Krallice, Bloody Panda, and Portal, a show [...]
Over the years Riverside has become one of my favorite bands in the progressive rock and metal realm. It’s not like they’re doing anything radically different or particularly revolutionary, but their music has this delicate melancholic touch few others have. The band celebrates its tenth birthday this year and in [...]
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