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 | Jan 8, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
What if you were told that one of the best grindcore bands of the last twenty years, a band that has built its stellar reputation on blinding speed and brutality through brevity, was about to release one of the sludgiest, grooviest, most thunderous doom records...
by Metal Insider | Dec 4, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
There must be something about the long, cold, unrelenting New England winters that has produced so many bands over the years who specialize in various forms of doom-laden sonic madness. The list of bands is too comprehensive to rattle them all off here, and frankly...
by Metal Insider | Sep 11, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Labeling something “atmospheric” has become, over the last two decades, a favorite device of metal music writers and bloggers alike. Everything with a twinge of doom, with a snifter of black metal, with pinch of post-metal bombast gets the...
by Metal Insider | Aug 28, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
There is a very distinct possibility that when we look backwards upon this era of metal music that we may be looking at something of a golden age. Certainly the internet and various technological advances of our times has allowed a ton of bands to saturate our ears...