I’m sure there are going to be people who see this album on this list and wonder why the hell I have it so low. I mean, are there really [...]

So if you’ve been keeping score at home by now you’ve probably seen this theme with a lot of bands and their ever-shifting styles of music – some even leaving [...]

So quick story.  I used to DJ at my college radio station.  I remember throwing on a song from the, at the time, new album from The Gathering.  I loved [...]

When you talk about goregrind and extreme, brutal death metal one band should always come to mind.  That would be New York’s Mortician.  There are very few bands in the [...]

We tend to bandy about the term “progressive” quite a bit when discussing certain metal artists.  Honestly though, and I’m guilty of this too, it’s too often used as a [...]

I had a hard time with this record, whether or not to even include it on this list at all.  I had some very big and some very difficult decisions [...]

When you think of the earliest days of black metal, specifically all the proto-black metal bands like Venom, Celtic Frost, Bathory, etc. what comes to mind?  Music that sounds thrash [...]

When you talk about grindcore, especially over the last decade there are a handful of bands that absolutely need mention when discussing the greats of the genre.  Not the least [...]

A little bit ago we mentioned the highly underrated and influential California doom metal band by the name of Mindrot.  So why do I mention this?  Because Relapse Records was [...]

When a band shows up on here more than once it’s up to me to explain why a band is taking up multiple spots on this list.  Such is the [...]

So we’ve talked in the past about how a handful of really prominent European metal bands decided in the late 90′s/early 00′s to sort of soften their sound.  Whether that [...]

You hear a lot of talk about ‘lost classics’.  I’ll admit I’m partial to the term myself.  But really it’s rare to stumble across a band that everyone has seemingly [...]