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25 Days Of Metal 2012: #20 Ihsahn – Eremita

Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing you a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown we’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of […]

25 Days Of Metal 2012: #25 Enslaved – RIITTIIR

Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing your a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown We’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of […]

Between the Buried & Me To Do Fan Q&A Today

Modern metal band Between the Buried & Me announced they will do an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) today at 6 PM Eastern Time on reddit. This internet interaction has been done before with comedian Louis CK and President Barack Obama, amongst others. Bassist Dan Briggs, front man Tommy Rogers, and lead guitarist Paul Waggoner will all […]

REVIEW: Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Band: Between The Buried And Me Album: The Parallax II: Future Sequence Genre: Progressive Metal Label: Metal Blade Records Every now and then a metal band comes along that carves out their one very special niche in the music world, a band that is virtually without peers. Between The Buried And Me is one of […]

REVIEW: Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal

Artist: Periphery Album: Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal Genre: Progressive Metal Label: Sumerian Periphery II clocks in at whopping 70 minutes, and perfectly uses every single one of those seconds to wow both fans and naysayers alike. Fully embracing the many genres that could be used to describe the band’s music, Periphery has ambitiously crafted […]

REVIEW: ICS Vortex – Storm Seeker

Album: Storm Seeker Artist: ICS Vortex Genre: Progressive metal Label: Century Media Prog metal, at this day and age, seems to have two very different directions that it can go in. First you have the overly wanky and technical metal where all the songs are obnoxiously long (e.g. Dream Theater). Second you have metal that […]