Reviews, Interviews, and Podcasts celebrating the best Extreme Metal music

  • Beginnings and Key Notes

    Gather round ye ol’ fire, short story time…of actual events. From as far back as I can remember, I’ve always been heavily influenced and directed towards certain genres or styles. None of them ever really stuck and lasted as much as my love for Metal and all of it’s endless tributaries. Those key moments over…

  • Opeth.

    Staying up, per the release of the new album. Worth it? Yeah – because now after saying, I’ll be in the office, I need to listen to at least half of this. Dawning my headphones entitled “The Crown” – rarely used these days with a freshly walking toddler. I’m now on to listen #2 –…

  • Fallujah – “Xenotaph”

    New release from Fallujah had me a bit of – all over the map feeling. Never for a bad reason because you hear the growth for both animosity and production level. Admittedly Fallujah was a band for me that I had heard of and being quite honest, thought they were an older unit than 2011….

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 55 – Shrieks & Screams

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 55 – Shrieks & Screams

    I want to apologize for the delay in getting this episode released. We recorded a couple of weeks ago, but the audio for one of the tracks became corrupted, and then on top of that, I got sick for a week, so we had to postpone re-recording. Expect two episodes to be released this week…

  • Invunche Concert Review

    Invunche Concert Review

    The mystical and spiritual force known as Invunche are in the midst of spreading their unique and pummeling version of ancestral summoning, primitive, punk tinged black metal to the US.  Technically based out of The Netherlands, the creator and inhibitor of El Invunche began his life in Chile and was uprooted at a young age to…

  • Iron Firmament – In the Land of Pre-human Kings

    Iron Firmament – In the Land of Pre-human Kings

    “Advance on sungrazing aquarids Into a fabric of horizons”