"I'll never forget when I first experienced heavy metal music. The high energy, galloping guitar riffs, and double bass drum beat created something that I'd never heard before. I was hooked.” When heavy metal fan, Sean Miller got his hands on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Metal Albums ...
As we move into the new year, it’s that time when we look back on the highlights of the past 12 months and remember what made them so. With much of the world still emerging from lockdown, many artists have been quietly busy making music off the stage. The heavy scene in particular ...
accompanied by heavy synth tones and momentous drumming. “Burn all the flags and the symbols of man,” belts singer Deedee, imagining the colors draining from the flag’s draped hues. Elsewhere, songs like “Free From The Sun” and the crescendoing “Titan of Hope” are portraits of ...
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Beginning in the post-metal space, we have true royalty returning as Cult of Luna release their new EP The Raging River.
I took it, amazed again at how light it was and yet what heavy pain it had caused. That night I masturbated furiously, my thoughts centred only on my aunt and her canes. I was becoming fixated. I also decided that I had to see her naked. Just two days later, I was hanging around...
While the album hardly skimped on hillbilly heavy-metal grinds, there’s also a concision and clarity to the performances that, at times, yield surprising moments of melodic levity. Credit producer Butch Vig, then a midwestern noise-punk foot solider who was still a few months away from steeri...
Tribulation’s 2013 collectionThe Formulas of Deathadded progressive rock, clean guitars, piano interludes, and flanged Eastern elements to the group’s thrashing Swedish death metal.Children of the Nightis more focused, nailing a vintage heavy rock feel—think Mercyful Fate with a gnarlier vocalist...
’ After fierce debate, the decision was made to award ‘Overkill’ with the honor of being hailed as best of the year. While Lemmy maintained Motorhead were a rock ‘n’ roll band, there’s no denying the band’s influence on heavy metal and that their abrasive, loud and proud sound ...
Pusha T manages to pare things back on It's Almost Dry, not to the level of past highlights like Numbers on the Board or Untouchable, but to a point where the sample-heavy arrangements don't overshadow his personality. Bringing in producer Pharrell Williams might have something to do with ...