Have you ever seen Combat Shock, that Troma film that's really weird, droning and hard to watch? You're not really sure if it's art house br...

Would it be treading into obvious territory to describe the aesthetic vision of a group named Doomsday, with an album named Doomsday, as apo...

Everyone always forgets that there's more to Norway than black metal. The Norwegians have blackened other things, like punk, resulting in re...

Midnight are a weird retro thrash band that just might be making fun of you. Their first EP was released in 2003, but they sound like they s...

Black September are back with their blackest release yet. Into the Darkness Into the Void sees the band embracing black metal more than they...

For the unaware, the Guilt Of… feature members of Eyehategod and Wolvhammer. Full of Hell feature members of, well, Full of Hell. Toge...

Live records are always kind of a gamble, because they generally either feature crappy versions of your favourite songs and you never end up...

Japan thrash lords Fastkill are known for one thing: playing really, really fast. While many acts approach metal with an eye towards innovat...

Master are back with another brutal record of not-quite-death-but-definitely-decomposing thrash metal. In case you don't know Master, they'r...

Unsacred aren't sure what kind of band they are, and that's a good thing. Rather than picking a single genre and sticking with it, they've s...

The Unmothered are Austin's most promising independent metal band. With a new release that revisits and updates some of the material from th...

Always the consummate artiste, Ghostlimb frontman Justin Smith's (aka Jason Schmidt when he's leading Graf Orlock) influence for new album C...

Originally released in '88, Spectrum of Death is the debut album from Morbid Saint. It's also a long-lost relic of thrash metal's peak in th...

More than many groups, Cynarae have a political and aesthetic genealogy that takes us into very different directions. The band's name comes...

New Jersey has managed to produce both The Jersey Shore and Pharaoh. For a state that isn't terribly large, such divergent cultural output c...

More great hardcore sludge from A389 here, with Seven Sisters of Sleep's self-titled seven-inch, a deluxe package featuring all kinds of goo...

The story of Sarcofago is almost as fascinating as their music. Frontman Wagner "Antichrist" Lamounier was one of the earliest vocalists for...

As a counter/sub-culture, goth has suffered in recent years. Somewhere along the way, goth fused with the worst kind of Euro trance culture,...

Bringing together Full of Hell and Code Orange Kids is a Nietzschean exercise in nihilism. It's scorched earth policy on this EP, as these t...

The nu-metal phase of the early '00s left a bad taste in most people's mouths. There are a number of reasons most refer to that period and g...