Reviews

Man I'm diggin' the resurrection of traditional metal...particularly the stuff that's coming out of Sweden these days. In Solitude is the latest band brewing up some old-school metal to bust out of Scandinavia and they're worthy of every bit of praise that's been heaped on them.

The new D.L.C. "Rezurrection" for Call Of Duty: Black Ops is finally out for Xbox with PS3 & PC to follow. Unlike the previous map packs this one's all zombies. It includes 4 classic maps that have been touched up & reworked including: 1.) Nacht...

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I hadn't been so stoked for a new album as I was for Gigan's Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes since I can't remember when. And the thing is, I knew nothing of Gigan before they released a YouTube stream of "The Raven and the Crow" a couple of months before the album dropped.

It doesn't get much better than old school thrash in my opinion (hence the on-air name) and Toxic Holocaust can bust out the old school jams with the best of 'em. Joel Grind's been doing this for a while but now he actually has a full time band with him that records their parts instead of Joel doing everything...

You'll remember from last Sunday's Hombrew interview (part 1 & part2) that Sonic Cell worked their butts off producing a music video to submit for a contest a while back.  Unfortunately, after all of their hard work, the video was disqualified from the contest due to an interpretation of "excessive violence." ...

Another week and another edition of The Oath means it's time for my metal pick of the week. I'm slowing things down a little this time around with a band new to me, The Gates of Slumber and their new album, The Wretch.

There's just something about a band making a comeback when their future is uncertain...it just makes the comeback so much sweeter. After a car accident claimed the life of Decapitated drummer and founding member Vitek and sent vocalist Covan into a coma the band disbanded for a short period of time until Vogg, guitarist, founding member and brother of Vitek finally decided to reform the band and c

You would be hard pressed to find a more influential band in the last two decades than Neurosis. They're "that" band...the one that gets universal respect in the world of metal but are virtually unknown outside of the scene.

I remember reading an interview with one of the members of Napalm Death back in '95 in which he said something like their new album was full of "Smashing Pumpkins beats" and expecting Diatribes to be a sell-out of sorts. Well, that was definitely not the case but the album did display the band somewhat opening up their sound...

The Black Dahlia Murder have come a long way since their full-length debut Unhallowed. Not that they've changed a whole lot, they've just really come into their own and defined their "sound". The new album Ritual further expands their sound and incorporates some new, more atmospheric elements compliments of the songwriting of Ryan Knight...

This band is good. So good. I guess you can call it black metal but there's so much going on within their music that I just damn near have to say this band is their own genre. Tombs are the type of band that gets respect from everyone in the underground because their music is so well thought out and forward thinking while paying homage to the bands that influenced them...