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The first gig of a tour can sometimes mean the band will sound a bit blunt around the edges, but not even severe jetlag can put a stop to Killswitch Engage.
PopMatters premieres the video for "Somniloquist", taken from Messenger's genre-defying debut album Illusory Blues, set for release on the 28th of March.
Svn Eater is like being cast into the blazing bowels of the beyond where Morbid Angel are Satan’s house band and they only play the “hits”, i.e. nothing after Domination.
Triumph and Power is exactly what we’ve come to expect from Grand Magus -- and if you approach this album hoping for anything other than pure heavy metal made for any decade, you’ve found yourself on the wrong longboat destined for Vahalla.
The Satanist is a definitive statement for the individual and for renewed strength resulting from waging war against adversity, and it is by far the most focused, ruthless and powerful album of Behemoth's 23 year existence.
Alcest have removed all remaining ties to black metal -- and metal in general -- and fully embraced their love for shoegaze/post-rock in what can only be defined as a love letter to both ‘90s movements.
Heart of a Coward's second album callously severs the ties between the band and the plethora of djent/metalcore also-rans prowling around the United Kingdom at present.