by Metal Insider | Mar 25, 2016 | New & Noteworthy, New Music, News
If there’s one appropriate way to close out “March is Metal Month”, it’s by having the last Friday in March be the busiest day on the release calendar up to that point for the year. So it is today, with a deluge of new albums taking over the...
by Metal Insider | Mar 23, 2016 | Metal Milestones, News
One of metal’s most overlooked albums is turning 40 today, and what better day to show it a little love? The cool thing about metal is there’s always been a reverence and respect for the past, even as the genre takes on strange new forms. This means you’re just...
by Metal Insider | Mar 10, 2016 | Columns, Criminally Slept-On
In Criminally Slept-On, Schuler Benson takes a look at some of the most underrated tracks from his favorite prolific bands’ back catalogs. Cradle of Filth occupies an odd place in the heavy music pantheon. While the band can’t really have been called “black metal” any...
by Alix Vallecillo | Feb 11, 2016 | New Music, News, Updates
American black metal has been very solid for a long time and bands like Cobalt are the perfect example of the quality it possess. Cobalt has been a duo project helmed by multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder and Phil McSorley in charge of the vocals, but the couple had...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 13, 2016 | News, Updates
What a difference a few months makes. Behemoth frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski followed up 2014’s The Satanist by saying that doing anything new from the band was super low on his list of priorities. He also said, in essence, that their most recent...