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Dissident Aggression: Clawing Into Wolvhammer

Dissident Aggression: Clawing Into Wolvhammer

by Metal Insider | Jul 7, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

American black metal has a long and, frankly, somewhat bizarre history.  In the most embryonic of stages the bands labelled “black metal” often sounded more like the influential “first wave” European bands than anything their European...

Dissident Aggression: Uncovering the Relics of Vanhelgd

by Metal Insider | Jun 6, 2014 | Columns, Dissident Aggression

Long before the Swedish death metal scene was perpetually infused with the word “melodic” at every turn it was a scene that produced some of the most brutal and unrelenting death metal the world over.  At some point though the musical pendulum started...

Dissident Aggression: Taking Leave In The Valley Of The Sun

by Metal Insider | May 23, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Stoner rock is alive and well.  That sub genre of 60’s psychedelia-soaked, Black Sabbath worshiping, bong loading, fuzzed out, rock n’ roll did not fade off into the Western skies as the sun was setting on bands like Kyuss and Nebula.  Forget for a moment...

Dissident Aggression: Emanating From The Path Of Serpents

by Metal Insider | May 16, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Some music is meant to simply clobber.  It’s built with a battering ram aesthetic and rumbles through headphones like some prehistoric, ancient beast, unaware of the true destruction it wields.  One fine example of music that simply cold-cocks you from note one...

Dissident Aggression: The Triumphant Return Of The Kings Of Sludge

by Metal Insider | May 9, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Fourteen years.  Fourteen long and lonely years we’ve all gone without an album’s worth of new material from New Orleans’ kings of sludgy misery, Eyehategod. How did we survive it?  Surely there were the hundreds of bands influenced by...

Dissident Aggression: Lord Mantis Don The Death Mask

by Metal Insider | Apr 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

There are certain albums that you wait for months and months for, anticipating like a child anticipates a visit from the fat guy in the red suit every 25th day of December.  In the back of your mind though there’s that constant nagging feeling though that what...
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Rob Zombie unleashes new song “Punks and Demons; new album arriving in February
Rob Zombie unleashes new song “Punks and Demons; new album arriving in February

Rob Zombie has announced his eighth studio album, The Great Satan, scheduled to arrive on February 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. The new record marks the follow-up to 2021's The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. To coincide with the announcement, the...

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Track Premiere: Beau Anderson – “As If”
Track Premiere: Beau Anderson – “As If”

ATL alt-rocker Beau Anderson has teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere his latest single, “As If,” out October 9th. The track hits with sludgy riffs and heavy grooves, channeling a failing romance destined to collapse. “As If” is taken from Anderson’s debut EP,...

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Album Review: Orbit Culture’s Death Above Life & Interview with Niklas Karlsson
Album Review: Orbit Culture’s Death Above Life & Interview with Niklas Karlsson

2000 marked a pivotal year for the rise of nu metal. While the genre had already exploded by the mid-to-late nineties, the turn of the millennium felt like its mecca, when bands like Slipknot, Linkin Park, Deftones, KoRn, Disturbed, and System of a Down (to name a...

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New & Noteworthy: Fasomas releases – 12/13/2024

New & Noteworthy: Fasomas releases – 12/13/2024

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s releases include works from the likes of Mörk Gryning, Fatal Embrace, Dark Embrace and Orbiter among the...

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New & Noteworthy: Renovate Releases 12/6/2024

New & Noteworthy: Renovate Releases 12/6/2024

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Entering the final month of 2024, this New Music Friday features new music from the likes of White Denim, Until I Wake and The Old Dead...

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New & Noteworthy: Dreaming the strife for releases – 11/29/2024

New & Noteworthy: Dreaming the strife for releases – 11/29/2024

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This final week of November sees albums from the likes of Bedsore, Astral Doors, The Gates Of Slumber and Mefitis, among the many,...

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