Category Archives: Heavy Metal
Ares Kingdom – By The Light Of Their Destruction (2019)
By The Light Of Their Destruction On their new album, Ares Kingdom have traded the anthemic qualities of their first three albums for a deliberately spacier and obscure sound. Appropriately, the band has mined its own past for inspiration; as … Continue reading →
Randy Rhoads and the Diary of a Madman
Ozzy Osbourne’s first four albums, and especially the two with Randy Rhoads, present a strange dilemma for metalheads. While they resuscitated Osbourne’s flagging career after being dumped from Black Sabbath, and though they are fondly remembered for Rhoads’ contributions to … Continue reading →
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Argus – From Fields of Fire (2017)
They say swans are some of the only creatures to choose a lifelong partner and that when one among them dies, the other doesn’t live long after. How does either member of a couple that has grown old together cope … Continue reading →
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Distant calling and the musical soul
A feeling, more a sense of awe-struck bewilderment, that I have never been able to shake off while listening to some of my favorite metal is just how can such an abrasive form of music be at times so innocent … Continue reading →
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Tagged distant calling, holy terror, terror and submission
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Howie Bentley’s mastery of heavy metal
Rarely has a heavy metal songwriter working in different genre paradigms been as masterful over both expressions as primary songwriter Howie Bentley of Cauldron Born and Briton Rites. The first project is neoclassical, swords and sorcery power metal and the … Continue reading →
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Tagged born of the cauldron, briton rites, cauldron born, Doom Metal, for mircalla, heavy metal, howie bentley
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Deceased – Ghostly White (2018)
In classic heavy metal manner, Deceased make evocative songs centered around instantly identifiable melodies. The band has ever been at pains to distance itself from all death metal references, at least as they are conventionally understood, and Ghostly White only … Continue reading →
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Tagged death metal, deceased, Ghostly White, heavy metal, King Fowley, Virginia, voivod
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Medieval Steel
“Beyond the sands of time, in the realm of the mind, there is a land where life and death are ruled by steel.” Of gigantic mirth and gigantic melancholy, Medieval Steel‘s eponymous song is the finest they ever wrote. It … Continue reading →
Why Destroyer 666’s Wildfire disappoints
With acute understanding of heavy metal rage and melancholy, Destroyer 666 went on to become in many ways the archetypal metal band of their generation. Deriving their elemental sound and technique from the neoclassical flair of Destruction‘s Sentence of Death, driving … Continue reading →
Pagan Altar – The Room of Shadows (2017)
It seems like a thousand years Since I let you go In a world so full of greed I didn’t know But now I’m on death’s door we’ll be together And I’ll be with you then and after forever – … Continue reading →
The Chasm – A Conscious Creation From The Isolated Domain: Phase I (2017)
The most pertinent conjecture in the lead-up to this fully instrumental The Chasm album was how freedom from the vocal straitjacket would affect songwriting. Surely, not having to make provision for vocal spots would, or ought to, give songs more … Continue reading →
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Tagged A conscious creation from the isolated domain Phase I, Daniel Corchado, Metal Of Death, Mexico, The Chasm
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Old Disgruntled Bastard 