
Dense, dark and unhinged, Daughters' long-anticipated return, You Won't Get What You Want, is aptly titled. Born from an internal schism...
Dense, dark and unhinged, Daughters' long-anticipated return, You Won't Get What You Want, is aptly titled. Born from an internal schism...
On Thursday, November 2, Toronto experienced perhaps the strongest extreme metal show of 2017. Kicking things off was Guelph, ON troupe...
Amenra's live show was one hell of an introduction to the Belgian band. Kicking off a tight, three-band bill at the Danforth Music Hall, the...
With suitably gorgeous sunny weather conditions, pseudo-Satanic occult rock act Ghost kicked off the proceedings at the Budweiser Stage for...
An exceptionally well-curated bill for a large metal tour is rare, so it goes without saying that when Decibel Magazine's annual bonanza com...
The air was thick with fog when Toronto duo Sortilegia began their performance at the Smiling Buddha. With a table sitting front centre ador...
Neurosis have been around for three decades and made 11 albums, yet they continue to defy easy characterization. The "post-metal" label they...
Neurosis are a three-decade staple of thinking (wo)man's music, a band who inspire emotional hyperbole, who are both crushing and fragile, t...
When Royal Thunder's CVI was released in 2012, the hype machine framed the band as part of a wave of occult rock bands, bands that were seem...
Royal Thunder's Crooked Doors has been framed as break-up record, given that vocalist/lyricist/bassist Mlny Parsonz and guitarist Josh Weave...
Nearly 30 years after their inception, German power metallers Blind Guardian are looking to the past for their 10th full-length. Not the fic...
Whether you listen to their albums sequentially or in random order, there is fluidity within the Blind Guardian catalogue that few bands hav...
Metal's fantasy-inspired lyrical repertoire runs like a who's who of legendary authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Robert E. Howard,...
On a freezing Sunday night (November 16), Onslaught and Artillery, two underground thrash legends, played a small, sweaty venue in the icy f...
Encapsulating an album in a tidy sentence can be an extremely frustrating task. In the case of Anguish, it's easy. This is heavy doom metal;...
Amulet's 2011 Cut the Crap demo was intriguing, featuring "old school" classic metal with a black magic obsession. You know the kind: infuse...
Vocalist Uta Plotkin says she was leaving Witch Mountain two days after the release of their fourth full-length, Mobile of Angels, because a...
Psychedelic, kraut and doom music straddles a thin, and very personally interpreted line between monumental, thunderous, and/or transcendent...
Recruiting Uta Plotkin, an intern at drummer Nathan Carson's Nanotear Booking Agency, turned out to be a major turning point for Portland me...
Shamelessly and obviously plagiarizing yourself is a strange thing to do. However, when you look at Gothenburg's Hammerfall, it's certainly...