There are some bands that people (read: journalists) never really agree on how to classify. Take Massachusetts’ The Red Chord for example. I’ve seen this band categorized about 15 way [...]
There are some bands that people (read: journalists) never really agree on how to classify. Take Massachusetts’ The Red Chord for example. I’ve seen this band categorized about 15 way [...]
Some labels are going to show up on this list a lot. By now you can probably figure out who some of them are – Metal Blade, Earache, Century Media, [...]
This is going to be one of those records where someone, somewhere is going to sit at their keyboard and either figuratively or literally type me a nasty message about [...]
When we look at doom metal there are obviously variants. The term “doom” really is a broad umbrella term that houses quite a few very different sub genres. One of [...]
Once again we find ourselves talking about a band from Europe that’s spent the last decade refining and morphing their sound into something that’s more accessible compared to when they [...]
In my humble opinion two of the greatest and most influential metal bands of all-time, especially in the black meta world were Emperor and Dissection. We’ll get to their stories [...]
Anyone who knows me or has seen this list so far knows there is a special place in my blackened heart for bands that experiment. I’m not talking about bands [...]
US Black Metal is a pretty progressive scene. One band to emerge out of this scene and really push musical boundaries is Chicago’s Nachtmystium. Although begun as a raw lo-fi [...]
Some bands and more specifically some albums just simply defy classification. I’m not sure if there is any album on this list that fits that description as well as this [...]
Some bands see their influence continue to grow over time even when they aren’t releasing records. There’s something about certain bands and their output (and maybe the subsequent lack thereof) [...]
Very few bands have ever started off their careers really strong and then survived a period of less than stellar albums only to come back equally as strong as when [...]
Sometimes a band’s influence isn’t really felt until, sadly, they are split up and their band members have moved on to other projects. We’ve seen this time and time again [...]
