Orgy
Following Orgy’s surprise success in 1998 with a cover of New Order’s “Blue M…
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Crowbar
Damn shame that the cover of Crowbar’s Equilibrium is strictly and sad…
Nile
If Nile’s debut album, Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka, was the la…
The Berzerker
First, there was “digital hardcore” to push the envelope of musical extremity…
The Gathering
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Dark Tranquillity
To those in the metallic know, Dark Tranquillity craft some of the most provo…
The Dark Angel Divine
Seems highly unfathomable that a band thanking – and, by extension, citing a…
Evolotto
A dark carnival Evolotto’s 1776 is, but not the hokey, ICP-ish variety…
In Aeturnum
The mutually inclusive worlds of black metal and death metal have morphed int…
Caustic Resin
If Pavement’s Steven Malkmus ever unearthed a sizable After the Gold Rush…
Drowningman
Emo-kids can mockingly gesticulate all the grrrrrrrs and rooooaaars…
Rotting Christ
Of any metal band who has been toiling away in the underground to impressive …
Hypocrisy
Try as I may, I just can’t reconcile my feelings on Hypocrisy’s seventh and l…
Isis
If the preceding The Mosquito Control EP and The Red Sea short-…
Kid Chaos
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Hateplow/Rotten Sound
Since its inception in the mid- to late-‘80s, what the genre of grindcore has…
Venom
Venom: the supposed granddaddies of black metal, the most overrated metal ban…
Amebix
Universally regarded as the progenitors of the modern crust-core scene, Amebi…
Opprobrium
It’s now been nearly a decade since Opprobrium (formerly Incubus, but changin…
Deep
To merely label Deep’s Pieces of Nothing “death-thrash” would severely…
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