Every now and then, when the planets are aligned just right and the gods of prog and doom are in sympathy, heavy metal can bend the laws of...
Two parts retro and one part nostalgia = the formula for a Friday arena rock show on a muggy August night in Hamilton. Introducing the retro...
The Musk Ox I was first introduced to was beautiful in its relative simplicity — a lone classical guitar capturing (as founder Nathana...
The path leading Anathema to Distant Satellites from Liverpool and their doom metal origins hasn't followed an obvious course, but it has be...
At first glance, the title of Epica's latest release may evoke the most counter-intuitive of scientific paradigms, but the "quantum" the ban...
It's rarely good news when you're planning a music fest and some of your biggest name acts pull out mere days before they're scheduled to pe...
With its brutal riffs, its aggression, its growls, death metal can (and often does) express the harshest emotions. But metal's power can als...
Noam Chomsky: linguistics scholar, leftwing political commentator, enemy of media propaganda, and now, inspiration for a metal EP. Consideri...
If you're familiar with the music of USX/US Christmas, you've heard Meghan Mulhearn's violin, the instrument that dominates Oblivion Songs,...
The latest from Leaves' Eyes is very much what you would expect from a release titled Symphonies of the Night. The record is narrative-heavy...
As Paradise Lost celebrate their 25th anniversary with Tragic Illusion 25, the range of sounds on this collection of rarities offers a sense...
When guitarist Anders Nyström from Katatonia came up with the idea of de-metallizing the band's last record, Dead End Kings, he had to persu...
One of the first things you might hear from Katatonia's Anders Nyström is that things are very busy. It's been barely a year since the band'...
The final day of this year's Noctis metal extravaganza was the longest and best, a fitting close to the three-day event. The metal expo and...
The latest of Scarab Production's annual Noctis events (six festivals and four conferences) began with a night of simultaneous live performa...
A tour featuring Anathema and Alcest as co-headliners would seem to be among the mellowest of (not entirely) metal tours. Openers Mammiffer...
Their 2012 effort, Dead End Kings, is an album rich in textures and atmospheres, and it's those nuances Swedes Katatonia decided to explore...
While metalheads filtered into the Air Canada Centre for the reunited Black Sabbath's Toronto performance, party rocker Andrew WK greeted th...
There wasn't much doom at Heavy MTL, so Pallbearer would have stood out simply through song length and stylistic divergence, even if they ha...
Every Unexpect show is a dramatic experience, somehow more feverishly complex and precise — as well as livelier — than the band'...
