News, Reviews & Interviews

Crimfall – Amain (Review and Interview)

Amain is grand perfection, a metal opera of the highest caliber.

Portrait – Burn the World (Review and Interview)

Burn the World is a dark romp through the metal of three and a half decades ago, played immaculately, but with some serious fire.

Temple of Void – Lords of Death (Review and Interview)

This is death metal played in the darkest recesses of a post-apocalyptic doom soundscape.

The Convalescence – This Is Hell

It takes you from the first moment of childhood anger to the very last breath and leads one to remember that for some, This Is Hell.

Xanthochroid – Of Erthe And Axen

Gargantuan and robust, familiar and far reaching, forward thinking, chin stroking, one of a kind.

From North – From North

If you enjoy movies with obelisk, sword, runestone, or quest in the title and can think of nothing better than a nice mead while wearing a kilt, then this is the album for you.

Personalities – Loose Ends

I do think they are influenced by metal bands that I remember 20 years ago, but you can tell they definitely strive to push the sound to new levels.

MI Metal Shows Update: 8.28.17

In this week’s update: Metal shows happening in the Mitten. The Haunted, Brendon Small’s Galaktikon, Ruby The Hatchet new releases. MPN hoodies on sale! Decapitated & Gojira music videos… AND MUCH MORE \m/

Moral Void – Deprive

Moral Void is a destructive nightmare bringing to sonic life the vast disease of human society.

Pig’s Blood – Pig’s Blood

…a beast unleashed, full of abhorrent brutality and unchained rage.

Olde – Temple

They are a righteous beast awakened and ready to cleanse.

Laser Flames on the Great Big News – Laser Flames on the Great Big News

This quartet sounds much bigger than four and combines the best parts of many influences into a musical ride both melancholy and triumphant.

Undergang – Misantropologi (Review and Interview)

Feral creation is called forth to drag the listener bodily into the filthy pits of void from which the band springs forth.

Centenary – …Where No Lives Matter (Review and Interview)

A dark creature arises from the post-apocalyptic wastes.

Psy:Code – Morke

Lots of screaming about dying, murder, hate, and the like.

Poison Blood – Poison Blood

Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.

Five of the Eyes – The Venus Transit

You have to love a talented band that believes in itself and the music that they play.

Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls

Gravesite, with their much more nuanced approach are maybe more comparable to a lich from Dungeons and Dragons fame. These creatures were evil sorcerers who extended their life even past death, basically intelligent, malevolent, animated corpses with great power.