Features
Friday, December 7 2012
The Best Metal of 2012
There's no doubt 2012 has been another great year for metal, with releases from veteran road dogs and fresh young bands alike providing endless roaring highs and churning, filth-ridden lows.
Monday, December 17 2007
The Best Metal Albums of 2007
This is the best year for metal music we've seen in a very long time. Like other watershed years, such as 1983, 1984, and 1991, it's partially a case of artists peaking at the same time, and 2007 was no exception, unleashing a wave of superb releases from January straight through November.
Columns
Friday, December 24 2010
The Best Metal Albums of 2010
In the end, the metal world honored the memory of Ronnie James Dio in the coolest possible way: by making this the best year for new music the genre has seen in a very long time.
Reviews
Thursday, January 26 2012
Alcest: Les Voyages De L'Âme
Alcest's most accessible work to date doesn't sacrifice the brilliant musicianship that the band has demonstrated over their past two recordings. In fact, Les Voyages De L'Âme is equally as powerful as those albums.
Tuesday, May 11 2010
Alcest: Écailles de Lune
Stéphane Paut comes closer than ever to perfecting his gorgeous mix of shoegaze and metal on Alcest's second album.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
Alcest: Souvenirs DUn Autre Monde
The first full-length from French artist Neige alternates dreamy interludes and withering blasts of sound. Like recent Jesu, this is a shoe-gazing, post-rocking take on metal ... if it is metal at all.
