The unwritten rule is that try as they might, American metallers don't live up to European/Scandinavian standards when it comes to black met...

Darkest Hour have no respect for the many fissures that split the extreme music scene into factions. As the various tentacles of metal and h...

This Jersey outfit is a curious little unit, as they dip their fingers into a wide breadth of sonic influence, from art and prog rock, both...

I'm going to make a sweeping generalisation here about Japanese metal, but it appears that many bands seem to mimic the popular styles from...

There was once a time when the listening public would cut a second division band some slack if they had to deal with some sort of adversity...

Here's something you don't see everyday, a power metal band with an African-American dude holding down part of the rhythm section. The old s...

Two things disappointed me about this album. One: I was really hoping the band was called Kill Whitey Dead and that their material was all a...

Word on the streets of the suburbs is that Atreyu's new record pales in comparison to their past work on Tribunal. The usual cries of "sell-...

There are probably more people out there using records like this to either annoy the fuck out of their neighbours, show their new liberal co...

Despite your opinion regarding Ronald James Dio and his pop-metal ministrations, you have to give it up for the little elf. He's fronted som...

Weird one, this. The imagery would have you believe that these dudes are fortified, card-carrying members of the "Defenders of the Netherwor...

Lickgoldensky will undoubtedly garner attention from the hardcore scene as, if I'm not mistaken, it's the first band to emerge from the flam...

Whereas most people are utterly mystified when they find out where this band calls home, I'm only surprised that there aren't more bands com...

For Italy’s Necrosphere, I have some hope. It’s obvious they can play, have both groove and song structuring sense — picture Morbid Angel me...

France’s Gurkkhas sport an image that portrays them as a bunch of war-ready mercenary types. Battle ready soldiers from France? Yeah, right....

The way I see it, when assessing a grindcore album, one shouldn’t be rooting around the record in question in search of an overtly original...

This Brazilian band appear to have taken a cue from countrymen Krisiun and set out to play as fast as they can with no regard for what the r...

British veterans Benediction, longstanding leaders of a pack of bands that are signed, recipients of a fair amount of promotion, but are una...

I think that anyone that’ll try and tell you that Europeans can play hardcore/noisecore better than Americans is either playing devil’s advo...

Oh, Christ! An album called A Night At The Opera coming from the Teutonic power metal-affected minds of Blind Guardian. If you’re already br...