Today, class, we’re going to use an exceptionally nerdy analogy to help define what Combichrist’s new album The Venom In The Mouth Of God ...

I don't pretend to know the complications and considerations that go into the business of making music, but sometimes the optics make ve...

When we talk about life and maturity, we assume there comes a point at which we are supposed to grow out of certain things. With members of ...

We’re all familiar with the axiomatic mixing of ingredients into some greater whole.  The most common refrain used to illustrate this concep...

When a band takes more than a decade off from releasing new music, that says something to me. There are two possibilities that immediately c...

Twenty years ago was a weird time for rock and metal in the mainstream. With the ascension of nu-metal, we were wading through huge amounts ...

Over the years, I have described Dan Swano's album "Moontower" as 'if Rush played death metal' (I didn't invent th...

Being fickle, or particular to be more generous, is something hard to put into words. I've never figured out how to explain to people wh...

Here's the problem with being a nostalgia act; you can't make new nostalgia. Geoff Tate has been trading in that ever since he left ...

Occasionally in this line of work, it’s difficult to explain why an album grabs attention.  Such is the case with Cage Fight’s new album Ex...

Is rock dead? Of course the answer is no, but there is a similar question we should be asking that isn't quite so easy to answer. Is roc...

Lingering guilt. That’s what this review is about. Way back in 2012, an editorial was written on the forerunner of this website, detailing t...

There are two strains of goth-related rock/metal; the kind that was embodied by H.I.M., and the kind that comes with the cliche baritone del...

When last we heard from Xtasy, they were epitomizing a phenomenon that occurs in music. No matter our preferred genre, there are bands that ...

We've had the discussion more than once regarding which particular niche in the metal world is the most retrograde, the most stuck in th...

Hmm.  Here we are, faced with Tardigrade Inferno’s new record Hush , their third full-length since their debut effort in 2019.  And while w...