In pursuit of achieving “stadium death metal,” Gatcreeper deliver on such ambitions withDark Superstition, an obvious contender for death metal’s best LP of 2024. Melodic and hook-driven with no compromise in heaviness and aggression, this record is as close to a scream-along as death meta...
Seeing the growing number of new metal bands toying with that familiar 1990s melodic death metal sound, perhaps it’s time we reconsider the termold-schooldeath metal. Case in point, certain segments onDark Superstitionby Arizona’s Gatecreeper sound as if taken straight from an early In Flames...
Melody is often king within our microcosm and here are a handful of guitarists that I dub “doom metal’s most melodic," which, in reality, simply constitute some of the biggest influences on my playing throughout the years. This list is far from exhaustive, and I’ve even chosen to om...
Here is the best metal album of each year since 1970. Heavy metal is over 50 years old, and it's flooring to look at how the genre has evolved since Black Sabbath released their debut album on Feb. 13 of 1970. Oh, and if you're wondering, yes, it was the ominous Friday the ...
As melodic death metal rose to prominence in Sweden, no band made a larger impact than At the Gates with ‘Slaughter of the Soul.’ Simply one of the most influential metal records in history, the alternate-picked leads spawned the entire metalcore genre. An adrenaline rush from start to ...
As melodic death metal rose to prominence in Sweden, no band made a larger impact than At the Gates with ‘Slaughter of the Soul.’ Simply one of the most influential metal records in history, the alternate-picked leads spawned the entire metalcore genre. An adrenaline rush from start to ...
Here are the best rock and metal albums of 2023 so far. The year got off to a hot start with some very early highlights. Finnish goth icon Ville Valo resurfaced with his first solo album (under the banner of VV), Paramore dropped their first record since 2017 and Godsmack released ...
At the Gates rose out of Gothenburg, Sweden, summing up the port city’s melodic death-metal revolution with their 1995 masterworkSlaughter of the Soul. Frontman Tomas Lindberg’s tormented shriek never hit so hard as in the title track. “There was something a lot more hardcore about what ...
Here is the best metal album of each year since 1970. Heavy metal is over 50 years old, and it's flooring to look at how the genre has evolved since Black Sabbath released their debut album on Feb. 13 of 1970. Oh, and if you're wondering, yes, it was the ominous Friday the ...
Here is the best metal album of each year since 1970. Heavy metal is over 50 years old, and it's flooring to look at how the genre has evolved since Black Sabbath released their debut album on Feb. 13 of 1970. Oh, and if you're wondering, yes, it was the ominous Friday the ...