by Metal Insider | Aug 16, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
There was a brief point in musical history where the worlds of rock and metal were one. Bands like Judas Priest, Diamond Head, and Witchfinder General straddled that line before finally breaking away to help formulate new and exciting musical territory. But...
by Metal Insider | Aug 9, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
There are certain genres that, as the majority of bands go, there’s not a whole lot to experiment with. Funeral Doom for example may, at first glance, appear to be one of those genres. You play real heavy, you play real slow, you sound depressing as hell and...
by Metal Insider | Jul 29, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
It’s a rare feat when a band can be in existence for over two decades and still put out quality material. It’s an especially daunting task when you are including how extreme certain bands play it from a musical standpoint. Throw in multiple line-up...
by Metal Insider | Jul 19, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
In this metal world of ours that grows increasingly obsessed with anything we can label “retro” or, much worse, bands simply cramming as many notes as possible into songs that have little passion behind them, coming across a band like Atlanta’s Dead...
by Metal Insider | Jul 12, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
Here’s a question for you. What do you get when you mix a doom metal power trio with the dirty, sludgy musical aesthetics of the smelliest swampland around? You get the foundation of a recipe for Connecticut’s Stone Titan. Let it be stated for the record...
by Metal Insider | Jul 1, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
Let us not mince words here. Lycus, hailing from Oakland, CA, are a doom band. If you want to get cute and call them “funeral doom” that would be completely acceptable. But make no mistake that if you were to look up “doom” in Noah...