NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) We are rapidly approaching the most metal night of the year, a time when veils will be parted and a cavalcade of deathless fiends will spread mayhem through the human world — or at least we and centuries of our ancestors have so imagined, with thrills and chills galore. It is thus

(written by Islander) The German metalpunk band Devil’s Hour aren’t trying to fool anyone. They named their 2023 debut EP Black ‘n’ Punk Marauders. The two singles they released that same year were “Beerlethics” and “Blood and Booze on Hallows Eve“. And in case people still weren’t getting the message, they titled their 2024 debut

(Earlier this month Metal Blade Records released the latest album from Amon Amarth, and DGR decided to share his thoughts about it — below.) Oddly, it did not feel as if close to four years had passed for Amon Amarth between the release of 2022’s The Great Heathen Army and their latest release The Allfather

(written by Islander) When we premiered Aodon’s last album Portraits in 2023 we ventured the guess that listeners would have a hard time finding an album more overwhelmingly powerful in its sound and mood: Over and over again, it takes the breath away with the monumental scale and visceral intensity of its music. The themes

(We present Daniel Barkasi’s interview of Giovanni A. Vigliotti from the Floridian doom/death metal band Somnent, whose new album Heirloom will be released by Ardua Music on October 30th.) As fall has begun, and winter will be right around the corner, the chill in the atmosphere cultivates the proper mindset for doom metal. A place