Paul has been a extreme music fanatic since he first discovered a cassette called Axe Attack back in England the 80s. Though he grew up in Boston, Paul has written about the global metal scene and has lived from the Northeast to the Southwest of the U.S. and everywhere in between.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s, many metalheads shied away from goth and dark alternative rock like it was the plague. Fortunately many of us got over our prejudices and [...]
Blackdeath’s most recent album, Also Sprach Das Chaos, is a journey into a singular and twisted vision of black metal madness with an infusion of industrial and avant-garde [...]
From the bloody battlefields of Philadelphia come Morgul Blade and their debut LP, Fell Sorcery Abounds. Morgul Blade play epic metal with a Viking/black metal intensity and [...]
Every metallic element that goes into Worm’s third album Foreverglade makes it one of the absolute best extreme metal releases of 2021. The album is steeped in funeral doom [...]
Though HATE aren’t adding many new ideas to the modern death metal universe, this Polish quartet have released another striking assemblage of venomous and experperty [...]
Hey you! Yeah you! The metalhead with their head forever buried in the darkness of the grave, you need to lighten up and Hitten’s classic metal is a perfect antidote to the [...]
In the void left by German death metal giants Necros Christos (who called it quits in 2020), SIJIIN have arrived with their debut full-length LP, Sumerian Promises on [...]
Thirty years ago cult German death-thrash band Protector released their third and most wonderfully corrosive album, titled A Shedding Of Skin, and Holy Roller Records have [...]
Getting doom metal fans to lift their gazes from their graveyards is no easy feat but Count Raven, Sweden’s masters of doom, may be able to do just that with their new [...]
To the casual and sane music listener Qrixkuor’s first full-length release Poison Palinopsia is the aural equivalent of a deranged nightmare. For those of us who seek such [...]