Oct 16, 2020 · From the punky intro to "Cosmic Conquest" through the full speed metal banger "Harmony of the Spheres" to the dramatic trudging doom metal of closer "Reunited in the …

Three things tells you exactly what the band is about: the motto "Love Metal | Hate Fascism", the awesome cover art by fantasy great Michael Whelan, and the dedication of Dream Quest Ends …

Nov 1, 2019 · Those prone to deriding epic, dramatic metal as overblown may come away unmoved but Wilderun, by dialing up the bombast, are clearly unconcerned and invite …

May 14, 2016 · What we're faced with here is Pleiades' Dust, a 33-minute-long metal song/EP about the rise and fall of the House of Wisdom, a library in Baghdad from the 9th through 13th …

Desperate Dreams is tagged on Bandcamp as “depressive black metal,” and despite an abundance of what could only be described as feel good moments, there’s an ever-present …

Castevet’s Mounds of Ash was a marvelous experiment in martial movement, creating a black hole in the middle of metal’s Venn diagram. The album remains, in my mind, a glorious beast …

Mar 20, 2020 · That’s a good start, but for a recent release of metal-adjacent, instrumental music, let me recommend the latest by Hubris, Metempsychosis, an entirely engaging album centered …

Case in point: American heavy/power metal band Final Sign, a much classier affair than you might think after seeing that awesomely goofy cover. Hold High the Flame marries hard hitting, even …

Oct 15, 2013 · APL and Dressed In Streams are both avowedly intense bands, but their nerve-shredding build-ups often give way to passages where all that dark reverb and feedback …

Metal Hell Records from Minnesota is "label for unique black metal, folk metal and old school heavy metal". The label was created by the editor of Battle Helm Magazine.