Tag: metal

For the past decade, Canadian melodic hardcore quintet Counterparts have steadily risen to prominence through their honest and emotional songwriting. Their latest record, You’re Not You Anymore, is the fifth in their discography…

Kieth Kahn-Harris, author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, once wrote about metal’s aesthetic and the possibility of decoupling this from the music itself: It refers to…

Philadelphia’s Rosetta are releasing Utopioid, their sixth album, tomorrow. Rosetta began recording the album in late June, and will sell the digital album on a pay-what-you-want model, with more information to come about physical releases….

Comprised of members from the Chilean and Swedish underground metal scenes, Corpsehammer look back in the past to create their music. A blend of 90’s South American metal and the first wave…

They could have been huge. They could have been stars. They could have been a household name. If only they hadn’t been based in the Netherlands. If only they hadn’t…

Metallic hardcore heroes All Out War released their first new studio LP in seven years last month. While Give Us Extinction is certainty among the NY stalwarts’ best work, it…

Marijuana-themed death metal crushers Cannabis Corpse have spent the last eleven years unleashing humorous-but-brutal death metal. Their latest album, titled Left Hand Pass, will be their fifth full-length, which leads us to a…

First off, in no way am I a short-attention-span apologist: I don’t buy the argument that our attention spans are getting shorter and I think if we tried for more…

In case my writing a second piece on Raw Power this month for the Decibel site isn’t indicative enough, I’m a real big fan of the band. Their new album,…