Articles by Jill Mikkelson

• 

  Aeon

  Rise To Dominate

  PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2007

  Throughout its history, metal has been both mocked and despised for its "blasphemous” and "gory” subject matter. While Aeon do have some re...

• 

  Sounds of the Underground

  Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton AB July 28

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

  Seamless and speedy transitions between sets marked a smoothly run festival that because of the nearly uninterrupted nine-hour run-time req...

• 

  Crionics

  Neuthrone

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  The most exciting thing out of Europe in the past ten years has been the new school of extreme acts who, by merging melody with menace and...

• 

  Devin Townsend

  Ziltoid the Omniscient

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  Best known as the skullet behind Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, a prolific musician in his own right, has single-handedly delivered y...

• 

  Watain

  Sworn to the Dark

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  While Sweden has become known for its listener-friendly death metal melodies, many of its bands have made important contributions to a styl...

• 

  Botch

  American Nervoso

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Almost ten years after it was initially released, American Nervoso is not only still relevant but it’s absolutely crucial to modern metal a...

• 

  Godless Rising

  Battle Lords

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Years after Satan has lost his shock value, Moribund is keeping the nightmare alive, occasionally releasing "satanic” material that’s actua...

• 

  Illogicist

  The Insight Eye

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Having slipped under the radar with their Crash Music debut, Subjected, Italy’s Illogicist, with the help of the enlightened connoisseurs o...