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Koneskin – Liberty Place
On Liberty Place, their new EP, the Italian three-piece band Koneskin conjure up a groove, fall into place, and never seem to look back…
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.18.16
MI Metal Update 7.18.16: Janes Addiction at Freedom Hill, Vans Warped Tour hits Detroit, Scour releases their album and a metal book to read. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth
Band - They Mostly Come Out At Night Album - Scorched Upon This Earth Country of Origin - USA Genre - Post-Metal Release Date - May 18th, 2016 Label - Independent Author - Credible The atmospheric sound created by They Mostly Come Out At Night creates a...
Rail Yard Ghosts – Hiræth
Imagine, if you will, somewhere in an alternate dimension, Johnny Cash, Crass, and Mumford and Sons engaged in an open relationship which resulted in a child. That child would be the Rail Yard Ghosts.
Castle – Welcome to the Graveyard
Vocally, she reminds me of a siren, luring you in. The difference is that she is not luring you to sea, but to your eternal damnation.
Sallow Moth – Moss Deceptiva
Moss Deceptiva is a brutally beautiful meditation on the destructiveness of modern society… It is with this weapon of musical destructiveness that we will be cleansed.
Bifid Corpse – Dead and Decaying
The whole EP comes at you like a wounded bear, perhaps mortally wounded, but still having enough strength to eviscerate you on its way out. Dead & Decaying is filthy and ugly in the best possible way.
Scour – Scour
The short EP gives the sense of a relentless, many clawed demon screaming across the landscape for the sole purpose of rending flesh from bone.
Quinta Essentia – Initiates of the Great Work
I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.
Nox – Ancestral Arte Negro 7″
It can be difficult to find worthwhile black metal in the underground, but also well worth the effort. The swirling riffs, brutal blasting, and flesh-rending vocal delivery of this brief release make it one of the black jewels that keep you looking.
Cough – Still They Pray
They are fantastic as making you feel the torment within the songs.
Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge
…a dazzling album overflowing with joy, warmth, drama, spectacle, and pure positive energy.
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.11.16
MI Metal Update 7.11.16: Inter Arma’s new release, New Gojira video, Rebel Road Motorcycle Rally in Mux and Morta Skuld in Hamtramck. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
Asschapel – Total Destruction (1999-2006)
Though Asschapel doesn’t really sound like Napalm Death – you would never confuse the two – I was impressed by how much the rage of the songs reminded me of Napalm Death.
Ghoul – Dungeon Bastard
…from the very first riff, I was transported back to my 15 year old self, down in my basement bedroom, boom box cranked to 11, and shouting along with Mike that “All I wanted a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.”
Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
Paradise Gallows, like Sky Burial before it, is both expansive and oppressive in its ferocity, sometimes glacial, sometimes frenetic pacing, and its ability to suck all the light from the room in a way both tragic and beautiful.
Abominant – Napalm Reign
Let me present you with another exhibit in the case of “How to Make Excellent Death Metal.”
Fates Warning – Theories of Flight
Throughout the album’s 52 minutes, the band nicely builds a bridge between their prog-metal roots and more modern sounds, with gorgeous production that presents the songs in full technicolor.
Frameworks – Smother
Beginning with opening track “Fear of Missing Out” the five-piece from Gainesville, Florida have crafted a rich, textured thrill ride.
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.04.16
MI Metal Update 7.04.16: Terror in Detroit, Tesla in GR, Fall tours and a new Thy Art Is Murder video. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
MI Metal Shows Update: 6.27.16
MI Metal Update 6.27.16: I Set My Friends On Fire in GR, Beyond Deth in Hamtramck, MPN is going to Muskegon MetalFest and Decibel subscriptions. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
MI Metal Shows Update: 6.20.16
MI Metal Update 6.20.16: Incantaton in Lansign, Guns n Roses in Detroit, and Winterhymn in Hamtramck. MI ranked high for metal Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
MI Metal Shows Update: 6.13.16
MI Metal Update 6.13.16: Buckcherry in GR, Nervosa in Detroit, and The Carnival of Chaos is coming. Plus, Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
Subterranean Disposition – Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure
Their deep rumblings created the appearance of demons within the melodic sceneries. This turned it from a barren wasteland that our soul goes to wander forever to one of demons ready to take you down with them.
