When Florida and Scandinavia were busily turning themselves into metal nerve centres, bands like Root were toiling away in Czechoslovakia an...

Mere microseconds into the first track, "Taran," on Neoheresy, Hellveto begin spinning a spell of dark enchantment, with Eastern and gothic...

Sounding more Euro than Orangeville, debut album World of Silence from Borealis is a solid and persuasive onrush of melody and power. The re...

A Finnish Summer with Turisas is one of the better metal DVDs I've seen lately, offering a little insight into Finnish life and landscapes w...

More horror-drenched than any Hollywood scream flick could possibly imagine, Treachery's self-titled debut excretes primeval ferocity and ca...

Gates of Winter's first full-length album is dramatic and dense, an ambitious and complicated fusion of multiple metal styles and big ideas....

When Sweden's Forest of Shadows cite Katatonia, Rapture and Cult of Luna as musical influences it comes as no great surprise, at least not a...

Featuring two 2007 concerts, four music videos and an entire disc of background and behind-the-scenes material, Visual Karma should be a tre...

In December the metal scene lost a dedicated and active member in Adrian Bromley, an editor, writer, publicist, collector and enthusiastic f...

Short but brutally sweet, Rotting Christ's latest visit to Toronto produced the ideal concert outcome - leaving the audience craving more....

This latest opus from Enslaved is a study in oppositions, especially the contrast between light and openness from darkness and claustrophobi...

Mamiffer’s debut unfolds as an artistic suggestion, hinting at something beyond itself. Piano provides the record’s melodic framework, inter...

Despite numerous years and several albums of melodic metal making in the U.S., Brave have yet to achieve widespread recognition, largely, I...

Declaration sounds tremendously big. You can probably credit Devin Townsend for some of that, his tsunami-of-sound production style turning...

Amon Amarth are a finely tuned Viking metal machine and Twilight of the Thunder God reveals the band in all their simplistic glory. The albu...

Abigail Williams stirred up some buzz in 2007 with the release of their Legend EP but before long, it looked like the band were finished. No...

Amon Amarth pulled in a zealous crowd for their latest Toronto show, moving up one venue size from their last headlining gig. Glowing smoke...

Name: D-TRASH Records Date of Birth: 1998 Releases to Date: 116 CD-R/MP3 releases, 7 official CDs, 1 seven-inch EP, 1 DVD Biggest Sellers...

After the impossible-to-live-up-to multi-disc release Therion put out a few years ago, Live Gothic comes as an anti-climax but one that’s st...

The main feature of Suidakra’s new DVD/CD offering is a full set filmed at Wacken, a treat for fans who yearn to see the band live, but no p...