Ted Nubel

Four years ago in the grim depths of the Pandemic, when I wrote about LaColpa's previous album Post Tenebras Lux , I described it as 'haunted'.

A dire shortage of quality retro thrash metal grips our world: either distracted by tempting genre fusions or simply not up to snuff, only a select

Minimalism in music takes a lot of forms. In the case of Italy's Othismos , minimalism meant stripping down their agony-laced blackened crust and

In another blow to geographically-oriented subgenre determination, Germany's Deadly Magic sets their sights on a rarely-revisited scene: the

I dread writing the intros to my year-end pieces. As much as you might think that finding 10 different ways to not describe music as “angular” is the biggest difficulty in creating this kind of list, it’s actually trying to find a way to spiffily summarize a year that, like most years, was not great. […]

If you're looking for your hard rock transferred to you at the maximum possible bandwidth, consider Mean Mistreater for your metallic needs.

There are a few crucial moments on Délirant's upcoming album Thoughteater that sound like 'normal' black metal, with easily-pinned-down grooves and fairly traditional shredding.

Crafting vintage hard rock isn't just a matter of finding the right tones and melodies -- there's a mandatory swagger that's needed, too.

I want slow doom to crush — not assault, exactly, so much as deliver a flood of consistent pressure that envelops and consumes at hypnotically slow speeds.

Just in case you were still capable of rational thought, Amammoth 's new album Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies contains all the mind-numbing doom necessary to erase those pesky brainwaves for good.