Articles by Max Morin

Sonoran Rebel Black Magick

True Western Doom

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2019

The brainchild of Arizona's Andrew Markuszewski, Sonoran Rebel Black Magick's True Western Doom is most certainly true, western and doom. G...

Baroness

Gold & Grey

PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2019

Gold & Grey ends the colour cycle Baroness started with 2007's Red. In the last 12 years, the band have moved from being sludgy outsiders t...

Combichrist

One Fire

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2019

Not quite metal enough to be metal, nor electronic enough to be electronic, aggro-tech bands often find it difficult to move around creativ...

Upon a Burning Body

Southern Hostility

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2019

Written and recorded over two months with guitarist Ruben Alvarez's younger brother Thomas, Southern Hostility is about as back-to-roots as...

Pelican

Nighttime Stories

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2019

Against all odds, avant-garde post-metal is having its day in the sun. Once relegated to the fringes of the music scene, Pelican's brand of...

Gloryhammer

Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex

PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2019

Power-folk metal acts generally fall in two categories: the truly epic, and the tongue-in-cheek cheesemongers trying to take the piss. Take...

Meet Belzebubs, the Internet's Black Metal Comic Strip Band

PUBLISHED May 8, 2019

"It's always been ridiculous in a way," says JP Ahonen, creator of comic strip metal band Belzebubs, about black metal, the strip's musical...

Possessed

Revelations of Oblivion

PUBLISHED May 8, 2019

Possessed are more of a myth than a band at this point. Since birthing the entire death metal genre with the song "Death Metal," on 1985's...