News, Reviews and Interviews
Heavy Metal Around the Globe
The Obsessed – Sacred
All in all, just a heavy, old school, meaner version of their younger selves.
She Must Burn – Grimoire (Review and Interrogation)
Entwining brutality and beauty, with eerie keyboards and unique rhythms, seeming to blend genres with ease.
The Brood – The Truth Behind
Death-grind, black metal, and crust all jump into the mix to create an abysmal groove that will have your head banging and the pit churning in no time.
Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry
With 18 songs and the longest coming in at a whopping 3:37, the Virginia 5-piece rips through the album in the best crossover thrash tradition.
Grond – Worship the Kraken
If this balance of aggression, speed and groove doesn’t get your blood pumping you must be dead.
Dusius – Memory of a Man
With shades of many types of metal like Folk/Viking to Extreme/Death all the way to an almost progressive feel, this band shows they’re very well rounded and have many more stories for us all to hear.
Bill + Phil – Songs of Darkness and Despair
Covering the gamut from straight stoner rock to gorgeous psychedelic interludes, Songs of Darkness and Despair comfortably bridges the gap between both.
MI Metal Shows Update: 3.27.17
This weeks update will help you: Read up on the history of metal. Decide between on a metal show near you. Get your very own MPN BIG Boot Sticker. Purchase the Pallbearer new release Heartless… Preview a new Terror video…. AND MUCH MORE \m/
Sweat Lodge – Tokens For Hell
Tokens for Hell is groovy, cosmic music with a very Black Sabbath feel. Except it’s on acid.
Doctor Livingstone – Triumphus Haeretici
To understand the album, give yourself an hour plus where you can sit and absorb the entirety without interruption. Your patience and effort will be rewarded with an album remarkable in its dark passion.
MI Metal Shows Update: 3.20.17
This weeks update will help you: Celebrate the first day of Spring with some seasonal tunes. Schedule what metal show you are attending. Get a cute but brutal MPN boot sticker. Scare the shit out of people at your next bonfire. Buy the latest release by Obituary… AND MUCH MORE \m
Arduini/Balich – Dawn of Ages
The album delivers torrents of guitars, deluge after deluge of roar and wail, with riffs that are more often engaging and accessible than dizzying and speed-driven.
Fen – Winter
My favorite albums are ones that present a cohesive vision and Fen have certainly delivered this in spades.
Tumourboy – Damaged System
Listening to Damaged System, released in early 2016, was like taking a trip to the 1980’s only without the stone-washed denim and Aquanet hair.
Black Anvil – As Was
With their fourth full length release As Was, Black Anvil is fast becoming the US answer to Enslaved (as a huge fan of the latter, this is not a comparison I make lightly).
Sunlight’s Bane – The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried
This album may be the darkest cleansing fire I have ever witnessed.
Obituary – Obituary
Long-time Obituary fans will be very happy with the variety on the album and it may even be enough to win back some fans that left them for dead.
Behind the Sun – Post Solis
North Carolina’s Behind the Sun deliver a blistering five songs full of the heavy riffs, rhythmic shifts, and choral ensembles of growl not unknown in the prog side of death metal.
Stories Through Storms – What Keeps Me Up At Night (Interview and Review)
Featuring two vocalists, each track switches smoothly between metal screams, melodic verses, and rap choruses creating a sound unlike other metalcore bands.
MI Metal Shows Update: 3.13.17
This weeks update will help you: Watch Pallbearer’s latest video before their show at the Pyramid Scheme later this month. Celebrate being Irish with a metal show. Add a soft, new MPN hoodie to your wardrobe. Protect your vinyl collection. Buy the latest release by Evocation… AND MUCH MORE \m/
MI Metal Shows Update: 3.06.17
This weeks update can help you: Order a sweet Morbid Angel patch. Make plans for a metal show this week. Check out Within The Ruins latest release. Watch a Fallujah video… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Dakhma – Suna Kulto
What the band certainly is not, is soft. They have all the intensity of a fully loaded freight train bearing down on you.
Pestilent Age – Novgorod
Two different writers take a crack at this Michigan release. Check it out.
MI Metal Shows Update: 2.27.17
This weeks update can help you: Make plans for a metal show this weekend. Stay awake forever. Check out Gojira’s new video for “The Cell”. AND MUCH MORE \m/
