by Metal Insider | Mar 11, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
While the one-man black metal jam, usually playing the lowest of the lo-fi, became a somewhat popular trend in the 90s, the concept of putting together an album all by your lonesome remained a very large anomaly in other extreme genres. But as time and technology...
by Metal Insider | Mar 4, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
There are bands that treat their music like a roller coaster ride – methodical ascensions, drastic descents, stomach churning twists and turns. For the last decade and through a bevvy of releases Germany’s caustic sextet known as Black Shape of Nexus have...
by Metal Insider | Feb 26, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
It is safe to say at this stage of the game that death metal is currently enjoying quite the renaissance. That’s not to say that the genre withered and died at any point, or that there weren’t quality acts to be found. On the contrary, since the...
by Metal Insider | Feb 19, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
The continuing allegory being written by Portland’s Eight Bells is one of isolation. Isolation in a world that can be unforgiving and uncaring. While that theme may seem completely overbearing at times, Eight Bells will unfortunately have to come to terms with...
by Metal Insider | Feb 12, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
If you took the title of their newest release at face value, and you probably should, then Calgary-based grind quintet WAKE would have you believe that we are in some serious trouble here. As we continually destroy this one and only world we inhabit on so many levels...
by Metal Insider | Feb 5, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
Sometimes as a metal fan you just need to spread your wings a little and expand your mind and definition to what constitutes ‘metal.’ Most psych rock bands exist on the outer fringes of the metal world, like a tribe of ancient hunter-gatherers in a world...