When we first heard that Dimmu Borgir vocalist Shagrath was engaged to Nicholas Cage’s ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton, we were sort of disgusted. It seemed hypocritical that the frontman for a Satanic black metal band was rubbing elbows (and genitalia) with a mainstream celebrity. To be honest, we were almost ready to write Dimmu Borgir off.
Then [...]

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Forget Enslaved, nevermind Ensiferum or Turisas. At the moment, Amon Amarth are the only Viking warriors that matter, the only ones capable of writing songs that unravel like sections of a weathered text of Norse mythology. Their epic tales of brutal death, vengeful gods and fierce battles are both ancient and timeless, their music as [...]

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A couple of years ago, no one knew who Five Finger Death Punch were. That was soon to change.
The wayward supergroup gelled when former members of semi-popular Los Angeles bands — Motograter’s Ivan Moody (vocals), U.P.O.’s Zoltan Bathory (guitar), W.A.S.P.’s Darrell Roberts (guitar) and Jeremy Spencer (drums) and Anubis Rising’s Matt Snell (bass) — joined [...]

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It doesn’t get much better than artful French demolitionists Gojira when it comes to progressive, brutal and experimental metal. The band’s 2006 album, From Mars to Sirius, was an inventive showcase of pulverizing death, sludgy doom and spacious psychedelia. The band’s new record, The Way of All Flesh (out October 14) incorporates [...]

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For more than six years now, All That Remains lead singer, Philip Labonte, has been screaming like a man with his fingers caught in an iron door. All the same, he’s never claimed he doesn’t like melody. In fact, his favorite songwriter is Sammy Hagar. So, maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising to hear his [...]

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