In all honesty, I’ve never been the biggest Harms Way fan. That’s nothing against them, though – I just don’t listen to a lot of hardcore. I do find the slightly more industrial-influenced direction they’ve moved in since signing with Deathwish pretty [...]
It would be needlessly cruel to accuse Novembers Doom of phoning it in on their tenth full-length album. The Chicago death/doom staple has certainly been in a stylistic sweet spot since 2005’s The Pale Haunt Departure, but suspicions of monotony were [...]
Death on Fire is the product of one-man instrumentalist Tim Kenefic. Based out of Chicago, Kenefic is an extremely talented jack-of-all-trades musician who studied music at Indiana University and occasionally fills in on bass duties for local power metal [...]
In a culture flooded with remarkable album art, it’s a sad reality that not every album can live up to the greatness of it’s cover. Bear Mace, however, went the extra mile to make sure their thrash-infused breed of death metal meets the [...]
The early to mid-80s are seen as a simpler time for heavy metal, but it might be more appropriate to say that things were just more ambiguous back then. It was a time when extremities were developing beyond their infancy but descriptors like black and [...]
Liquid Signal is one of the more overlooked bands in the Indiana doom scene. While their placement up north in Kouts, Indiana puts them a little far from the hubbub here in Indianapolis, they’ve been forging their own path with a fair number of [...]
I consider myself a big fan of death growls, blast beats, and all the lovable aspects that extreme metal has to offer. That being said, it’s easy to get engulfed in the heavier subgenres and forget the magic of traditional heavy metal. The powerful [...]
