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...

It's truly a shame how hundreds of obscurities were buried and lost during the clamorous days of early power/heavy metal (1983-1988) ...

Though the 90's obviously did not provide with a wealth of thrash that was half as prolific or good as the 80's, emergent acts th...

Perhaps one of the most staggering and resonating sojourns into the mid 80's reservoir of extremity can be attained best through the ...

Every time there's a new morbid bludgeon going on in the current death metal underground, the origin of the that cadaverous formula i...

Although at the time there was Devastation, who delivered their smoldering masterpiece two years later, Gammacide were ultimately the mos...

Incantation has been one of the most consistent long-running death metal bands, releasing killer material on almost every release the...

If someone were to listen to Manilla Road's pre-2000 output, they would more than likely notice that there was a constant changing...

Talk about being productive. Mark Shelton and the rest of his musical entourage continued to hammer out one awesome album after another...

There was a clear evolution in Manilla Road's sound that was first evidenced when their masterpiece "Crystal Logic" hit ...

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...

When you choose the name " Metal " for the title of your new record, that implies a couple of things. The main thing that it im...

This is the album that started what was to become an incredible catalog of epic metal at its absolute finest, and it wasn't even a he...

Though Glacier weren’t late comers to the early 80’s power/heavy scene, for some reason they were buried deep in the stockpile of band...

Bands like Exodus and Slayer wish they had the intensity that Demolition Hammer had on this record. This band might not have been near...

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 ...

While their later releases ‘’Exterminate’’ and ‘’The Inexorable’’ will prove to be more cunning and technically surpassing albums, Ang...