News, Reviews and Interviews
Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Bison – You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient (Review and Interview)
Bison take rage and violence and make it atmospheric and calming. They take beauty and make it viscerally deadly.
NYN – Entropy: Of Chaos and Salt
From the time the album starts to the time it finishes you are bombarded with the sounds of what can be described as a chaos that meshes really well together.
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.14.17
With this week’s update you can: Buy the new Motograter album. Protect your vinyl. Watch a Varials video. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Get a MPN Boot Decal to stick to your stuff… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Five Thoughts on The Melvins Live
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - The Melvins Country of Origin - USA Venue - The Pyramid Scheme Date - July 26, 2017 Introduction/Personal History The Melvins are one of those bands I mostly missed over the years. I'm positive...
Full Scale Riot Interview
An interview with Full Scale Riot.
Battle Raider – Battle Raider
Just looking at the promo photo and album cover gives you a good idea how these guys are going to sound. They look like the 1980’s.
Herida Profunda Profile and Interview
The quartet, split between Poland and the UK, play the kind of grind that I love. That is, they get all in your face and scream their leftist politics, spittle flying.
Eruption – Cloaks of Oblivion (Review and Interview)
Clearly, the old school Bay area thrash sound is not played out though, as the band uses waves of well placed riffs to makes an older sound seem both current and traditional.
Time Walk – Beyond Eternity’s Grasp
It’s not everyday that you stumble onto something that growls of war, conquest, and death.
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.08.17
With this week’s update you can: Support Bruce Corbitt’s cancer fight by buying the new Warbeast. Enjoy a nostalgic Motorhead video. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Stay cool in a MPN Tank Top… AND MUCH MORE \m/
The Minerva Conduct – The Minerva Conduct
This, my good friends, is Prog leaning Metal at its finest.
Jesse Leach DJ Set Review
The lineage of metal and hardcore music was alive and well as Jesse Leach, vocalist of metalcore pioneers Killswitch Engage, hosted a DJ set inside The Stache this past Saturday night.
Venomous Maximus – No Warning
Repeated distorted low riffs, combined with varying hard rock grooves make for a great setting of a void.
An Evening With Khemmis (Interview)
A while back, I personally got to sit down with a great band out of Denver, Colorado called Khemmis.
Funeral Tears – Beyond the Horizon
There is a heavy presence in every song, like that feeling of longing when you are missing someone who will never be there any more.
american – Violate and Control
An audiohorrorlove story, “Violate And Control” is an exercise of the former, the central, and the latter. In one sonic novel.
Goatwhore – Vengeful Ascension (Review and Interview)
Every song is a representation of Goatwhore and what they’ve done in the past, showing their vast evolution as a band over this 20 years.
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.24.17
With this week’s update you can: Buy the new Nine Inch Nails EP. View a new Thy Art Is Murder video. Choose from one of the MANY metal shows in the Mitten to support this week. Snag a MPN Boot Decal… AND MUCH MORE \m/
The Sarcophagus – Beyond This World’s Illusions (Review and Interview)
Beyond This World’s Illusions is a beast called to life by this passion. Both anguished and terrifying, the creature moves of its own accord, drawing the listener along in its wake.
Nasty Surgeons – Exhumation Requiem (Review and Interview)
The band combines elements of Stockholm death metal with grindcore to create a stew of nastiness from which I can’t help but repeatedly partake.
Cloud Rat/Crevasse Split
This split release is another cog in the essential Cloud Rat machine. The Crevasse side is a revelation. The band has gained a new fan.
Chachi On Acid Review and Interview
Chachi is quite literally the band that introduced me to the underground and the DIY ethic as more than just an acronym.
Tuesday The Sky – Drift
Matheos sought to expand on the artistic direction of more understated and atmospheric music once recorded for a Fates Warning album but deemed incompatible with the band’s heavier, more aggressive approach.
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.17.17
With this week’s update you can: Watch a sweet new Amon Amarth video. Choose from one of the MANY metal shows in the Mitten to support this week. Check Out the MPN Hoodie On Sale… AND MUCH MORE \m/
