Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Gwar Singer Blothar Wants to Defile Donald Trump's Son Barron

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2017

Gwar have built a career on taking aim at public figures and destroying costumed caricatures of them on stage, but their singer's dream des...

Archspire

'Relentless Mutation' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2017

Though much of Canada's technical death metal comes from Quebec, Archspire have been gushing out torrents of riffs from Vancouver for the b...

Vattnet

'Vattnet' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2017

Much like Code Orange before them, Vattnet's name change (they dropped the "Viskar") signals more than just a superficial moniker modificat...

Speaker

"Plaster" (video)

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2017

Speaker are pissed. They ain't just using their pulpit to speak; they're using it to shout (not just sonically, but also with the force of...

The Black Dahlia Murder Announce North American Tour with Suffocation, Decrepit Birth

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2017

The Black Dahlia Murder are continuing their streak of killer death metal albums with Nightbringers, the follow-up to 2015's Abysmal, which...

Miracle Drug

"Grudge" (video)

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2017

Miracle Drug released How Much Is Enough a month ago digitally, with vinyl and CD arriving just last week. Answering their own question, si...

The Lurking Fear

Out of the Voiceless Grave

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2017

H.P. Lovecraft-inspired death metal isn't exactly a new concept:  Trey Azagthoth, guitarist of Morbid Angel, and who wrote the genre's ABCs...

Nightwell

"Bloom"

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2017

Decades beyond the genesis of their two key influences — grunge and emo — Toronto's Nightwell join a growing musical movement blurring the...