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The Revenant – The Walk Through The Shadow of Death
Given their burly mix of sounds, one might call them extreme gutter metal or perhaps filthy murder thrash. In fact, at various points on the album, one can find elements of thrash, old school death metal, hints of black metal, and even an occasional touch of grindcore.
Wormwood – Mooncurse
Together, they create a rhythmic joyride down a cheese grater.
Rig Time – War!
War is there to sound the clarion call that we are perhaps already at war. This is visceral, angry, political punk rock, screamed straight from the heart, metal style.
Agusa – Agusa
I could easily see them as an opening act for King Crimson on the Red tour. Not as dark or brooding, but just as adventurous in the places they are willing to let the song go to.
Gnaw – Cutting Pieces
However jarring, Cutting Pieces is a great example of how artful noise metal can be.
Brandon Seabrook’s Needle Driver – Needle Driver
Scorching solos, bone crushing chord progressions, and hanging onto one note so long it makes an uncomfortably long Family Guy joke look tame
Auroch – From Forgotten Worlds (Re-Issue)
It has been made with the pure integrity of a band that has no other intention than to spread the good word that is Death Metal to us all.
Silvertomb – New Band Profile
A new band composed of veterans.
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.23.17
With this week’s update you can: Snatch Up the New Gwar album. Watch an Arch Enemy video. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Order a cozy MPN hoodie. Stave off boredom with an Activity Book… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Affliktor – Nothing Shall Arise Track Stream (plus full review)
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - Affliktor Album - Affliktor Country of Origin - USA Genre - Black/Thrash Metal Release Date - October 20th, 2017 Label - Transcending Obscurity Records Author - Hayduke X Nothing Shall Arise Track Stream...
Retortion Terror/Invidiosus – Split
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - Retortion Terror/Invidiosus Album - Split Country of Origin - Japan/USA Genre - Grindcore/Deathgrind Release Date - October 20th, 2017 Label - Horror Pain Gore Death Productions Author -...
Antiversum – Cosmos Comedenti
Sitting outside on a sunny day would be no antidote if listening to Cosmos Comedenti. The listener would still be locked into the darkness of the void.
Amenra – Mass VI
There are long stretches of calm, though not pleasant or happy, passages, interrupted by massive brutality and intensity.
Sicarius – Serenade of Slitting Throats
They may represent a new leaner, meaner strain of USBM than what we’ve seen before. Bold words about a band on their debut full length, but Serenade of Slitting Throats is that impressive.
Spectral Voice – Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
The US quartet takes their time to carve you apart, working away at you psyche with any number of torturous implements, leaving you changed and not knowing how you got there.
Belus – Apophenia
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - Belus Album - Apophenia Country of Origin - USA Genre - Progressive Black Metal Release Date - October 13th, 2017 Label - Vendetta Records Author - Hayduke X Formed in 2010, and featuring members of Woe...
Come Back From The Dead – Caro Data Vermibus
These four thick slabs of blue rare (not quite raw, you see) death metal flesh are meant for those with a hearty appetite for brutality of the time tested variety.
The Walking Dead Orchestra – Resurrect
TWDO bring us a solid slab of Death Metal tinged with a little bit of everything Death related…
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.16.17
With this week’s update you can: Support a metal show in the Mitten. Watch a new Manson video featuring Johnny Depp. Order MPN boot decals. Make your lips match your soul. Snag the new Fozzy album…. AND MUCH MORE \m/
pfm (Premiata Forneria Marconi) – Emotional Tattoos
Pfm have put so much forethought into lyrical rhythms and how they function in each language that I daresay that this is possibly the best multilanguage double album ever released.
Heyoka’s Mirror – Face of Void Track Stream
A new track from a new-ish Canadian band that mixes progressive rock with some elements of melodic death metal.
Heresy Interview
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - Heresy Country of Origin - Grand Rapids, MI, USA Author - Benjamin Boggs I have personally known the guys from Heresy for a long time. From the old dusty days at Lyle’s in Lowell to the now...
Calques – Civilizing
Civilizing is the soundtrack to the slow, but inevitable decay of humanity, reveling in the prospect of this demise.
Zgard – Within the Swirl of Black Vigor
Eloquent raw black metal, that’s what this is.
