I've always been hard-pressed to find that Master's Hammer's groundbreaking sophomore was never considered a fountainhead of ...

The truth hurts. While so many undeserving acts receive recognition and pundits beyond belief, those whose fates are as tragic and fragme...

Perhaps the reason both of Holy Terror's albums are considered cult classics today is that their sound deviated greatly from their su...

Even with the sudden thrash surge that was taking over the metal underground in the mid to late eighties, Helloween didn't hop onto t...

After delivering the awesome "Malleus Maleficarum" only a year earlier, Pestilence would unleash this monolith of death/thrash ...

I cannot even fathom how difficult it must have been for Mark Shelton to top his previous masterpiece "Crystal Logic," a near...

With two albums under Mark Shelton's belt, it came time to continue Manilla Road's ascent to greater heights with the ushering...

The old New York death metal scene was a glorious place during its heyday. There has been a manifestation of indulgent, cadaverous act...

Although Beherit’s “The Oath of Black Blood” is often confused for their first album, it is actually a compilation of their “Demonomancy” de...

Absu, a band who are now well-known for releasing consistent onslaughts of storming black thrash with a mythological and occult feel to them...

Angelcorpse’s sophomore ‘’Exterminate’’ was by far their most efficient release, even though its predecessor ‘’Hammer Of Gods’’ held an ...

Something about Immolation’s debut album “Dawn of Possession” was just… special. Immolation have never really sounded much like other dea...

During the late 80's hordes and hordes of power and thrash bands emerged in the US metal scene. Some of these power metal bands such...

Absolute fucking insanity. That's really all that needs to be said about Tormentor's " Anno Domini " demo. There'...

Vulcano may not be as well known as their Brazilian comrades Sepultura, but they may be just as, or even more, important to the evolution ...

You will be hard-pressed to find a fan of underground extreme metal who doesn’t acknowledge or respect the influence of the late 80s/early...

As you may already know, the Finnish death metal scene was a scene just as monstrous as the Swedish and American scene, yet for some rea...

The power metal scene in America during the eighties was easily one of the best scenes around. These bands, whether it be Omen, Jag Pan...

Germany is the Sweden of thrash, a place where you would find hordes of thrash bands. All particularly vicious and savage, the German th...

Melody has always been a difficult beast to handle in the metal world simply because if you use too much of it, you're likely to be...