‘The key to this music is its hypnotic hold on your senses. You could walk through the countryside rain without noticing a single drop on your forehead as the album…
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Can the future of rock music belong to four men who look like the last picks in a school PE lesson? Whether it’s an image of their singer’s beer belly…
Former Celtic Frost members, Erol Uenala (guitar) and Franco Sesa (drums), will always be lauded for their role in the greatest comeback album in the history of metal (see 2006’s…
There are three camps in the Periphery fanbase. Those that like their vicious Meshuggah-inspired tech metal go up against those that enjoy the quartet’s anthemic metalcore sound, which values virtuoso…
We assumed Neurosis have no new music left in them going into 2026. The last album came out in 2016, and live shows were a thing of the past. They…
If you exclude 2021’s Bloodmoon: I collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe, Converge last released an album nine years ago. That’s a long time for one of the twenty-first century giants of…
Testament are the band that appear in the middle of every festival bill. Sometimes, they grab a spot near the top for a mid-ranking event leading people to sigh: “Ah,…
Today is the Day are as important as Neurosis in the development of avant-garde metal in the 1990s. After all, “noise metal” is a term we created to describe their…
Seldom do we cite Brooklyn these days as the location for the heaviest band on the planet, but who would argue against Car Bomb holding the current title? When we…