Metal playlists from the underground
Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet’s side project Avantasia has garnished massive success, so much so that his earlier records LOST IN SPACE PART 1 & 2 can get a deluxe consolidated reintroduction to the masses. This collection combines the two previously released entities with a slew of operatically-tinged guest appearance metal bonus goodness for an essential […]
Metal’s favorite glee club return with BANG CAMARO II, Bang Camaro’s sophomore effort chock full of tongue in cheek stadium anthems for the modern age. This act’s unique choral lead singer situation and shredding pop metal riffs clear the path for a raucous 10-track joyride through the heavy metal parking lot. Tracks like “Miss Illusion” […]
Green Day’s follow-up to 2004’s Grammy Award winning American Idiot, flows more like the soundtrack to Rent than 1994’s Dookie. With every pop-punk cliche accounted for on 21st Century Breakdown, the rock trio continues to prove that they dominate the scene with their perfect delivery and execution of the fundamentals. The 18-track punk rock opera […]
After putting out numerous demos, Italian gore metal troupe Ghouls have finally released a full-length record, Until It Bleeds, an eight-track self-titled affair that champions a hearty old school death metal appeal with a barrage of depraved lyrical content that borders the redundancy line. Radiating the retro brutality of Obituary and Cannibal Corpse on “The […]
Order of Ennead is a bold blackened death metal troupe whose latest eponymous offering showcases a band with a serious multifaceted extreme metal strike. Featuring Deicide skin basher Steve Asheim, this quartet’s scope explores the vastness of both the forests in the Netherlands and the catacombs in Stockholm with a diabolical rasp and an adventurous […]
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Singapore black metal troupe Impiety maintain a dastardly level of speed throughout the course of their latest five-song, 15-minute endeavor DOMINATOR, as this black-death hybrid troupe bludgeon the ears with a speed-driven assault exploding with bad intent. Tracks like “At War with Temujin” demonstrate this veteran squad’s penchant for whipping up a maelstrom of malevolent […]
Progressive metal gods Dream Theater released “A Rite of Passage,” the first single from their upcoming studio album Black Clouds & Silver Linings that is due in June. The eight and a half minute epic opens with John Myung’s sinister bass riff that cements the foundation for the song, before unleashing the fierce guitars of […]
Liverpool, UK quartet SSS (Short Sharp Shock) provide an expedient excursion to relentlessly bang your head to in the form of the 20-track THE DIVIDING LINE. This crossover crew’s dead-on thrash metal acumen and authentic skate punk methods would make both Suicidal Tendencies and Destruction proud (“Toxic Bee,” “Purple Reign”). Displaying a unit at the […]
New Jersey doom merchants Maegashira clobber your cranium with a sludgy six-track sixty minute deluge into the depths of this quartet’s off-centered musical soul, drudging up shards of boogie-laden stoner metal and heinous hardcore metal heft from their collective musical wreckage along the way to comprise THE STARK ARCTIC. Not afraid to allow their inner […]