by Nick DeSimone | May 6, 2016 | Amplified
Amplified is a weekly column focusing on new and emerging artists. Got a band that fits the bill? Email amplified@metalinsider.net. I have to be honest, I’m totally burnt out on tech death for the most part. It’s got a lot to do with the lack of dynamic...
by Metal Insider | Jun 12, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Throughout the course of human history there have been certain phenomena that have blessed us with a mesmerizing array things you could set your watch to. In the metal world over the last decade plus one of those phenomena is a new High On Fire album. Matt Pike and...
by Metal Insider | May 8, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Once in a blue moon a band comes along and releases an album that you can clearly see will entrench them into the annals of genre lore, an album that just sets them apart from the competition from first to last note. This year’s “it” record very...
by Metal Insider | Apr 4, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
There was a time when you could easily identify a death metal band based on their geographic locale. Swedish death metal bands sounded utterly Swedish in the buzzsaw way. New York bands had their sound, Floridian bands theirs, Brazilian bands theirs, and so on and...
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...