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Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him review

Vallenfyre : Fear Those Who Fear Him

Gothic doom metal vets tap into classic death metal sound.

boris heavy rocks 2022 review

Mutoid Man : War Moans

A set of short, sweet, hard-rocking metal with a subliminal progressive streak.

best albums of 2017 so far Elder

Elder – Reflections of a Floating World

Boston psych-rock group takes a heavy, epic journey to more atmospheric territory.

Solstafir Berdreyminn review

Sólstafir : Berdreyminn

Icelandic group moves further away from metal, yet evades the mainstream.

Danzig Black Laden Crown review

Danzig : Black Laden Crown

It’s exactly what a Danzig album is expected to sound like.

Dead Cross tour

Dead Cross announce summer tour

Thrash/hardcore supergroup plays U.S. dates following release of debut album.

Loss Horizonless review

Loss : Horizonless

The funeral doom group stretches the limits of their dark, devastating genre on their latest.

Elder U.S. tour

Elder announce fall U.S. tour dates

Band lines up first set of North American dates in support of Reflections of a Floating World.

Boris new album Dear

Boris announce new album, Dear

Hear new track “Absolutego.”

Limp Bizkit metal in the '90s was the worst

Shadow of the Horns: Late ’90s metal was the worst

Boy were the late ’90s bad. Like, really bad.

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Full of Hell : Trumpeting Ecstasy

Grindcore noiseniks find a strangely elegant nuance in pummeling destruction.

Oranssi Pazuzu Farmakaloginen review

Oranssi Pazuzu : Farmakologinen

Finnish art-metal troupe pursues a short path of psychedelic delights.

Crypt Rot Embryonic Devils review

Crypt Rot : Embryonic Devils

Death metal and campy horror: A match made in hell.

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Royal Thunder : Wick

The Georgia hard rock band’s first for Spinefarm is more of a slow-burner.

best stoner rock albums

10 Essential Stoner Rock Albums

The most potent highs in the heaviest of rock.

Ghost Bath : Starmourner

Once-controversial metalgazers progress while showing there’s still growth ahead.