Anybody who hasn’t been living in a sound proof room for the past ten years in Australia should at least have heard a few Parkway Drive songs. They’ve put in enough hard yards to have become a...

The main thing that piqued my interest about black metal band Ritual Killer was that it was composed of nearly all ex-members of blackened thrash metal band, Goatwhore. Expecting the precise, catchy and melodic riffs of the...

Quick, name one French metal band. If you answered Gojira, congratulations, you’re about as knowledgeable as I am when it comes to this European country’s metal scene. Hopefully Deluge’s latest album, Æther, will put another coordinate on...

As a diehard The Black Dahlia Murder fan, I was eager to get my hands on their latest offering, Abysmal. I hadn’t given as much attention to Everblack as perhaps I should have, so this was my chance...

As I’ve said in the past, the resurgence of hardcore in Australia is fastly becoming a force to be reckoned with. With each new band that surfaces, the genre within our borders becomes stronger. If each were...

Diseased Deity by Adelaide’s Voros has a great many influences that I wasn’t expected to be chucked together in such a way as this. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of death/thrash/groove metal bands out there, but...

The riff is strong with this one. With the majority of sludge metal albums I’ve been exposed to being more on the stoner metal, psychedelic side, it’s awesome to hear an Aussie band taking it back to...

For every generic deathcore band America churns out of its ass, somewhere else in the world a decent one is born. With the oversaturation of deathcore in the current metal scene, it can all become a bit...

What do ancient Egypt and metal have in common? Intense, gut-wrenching violence, great fashion sense and Nile (well, in spirit anyway), the mythological-influenced technical death metal band from South Carolina. For over 20 years, Karl Sanders has...

It seems to have been an anticipative year for post-hardcore fans. Aside from the self-titled album We Came As Romans released this past month, and the fantastic album Skydancer by In Heart’s Wake, the majority of releases...