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By Ben Apatoff Solo albums tend to follow one of two paths. One being "Here's something I wouldn't normally do with my band" (see...
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By Ben Apatoff Solo albums tend to follow one of two paths. One being "Here's something I wouldn't normally do with my band" (see...
By Ben Apatoff Any metalhead with a computer knows by now that JUDAS PRIEST are planning their final tour. Of course these things are...
As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days,...
By Ben Apatoff Like most fanatical music dorks, I spend the holiday season listening to my favorite records of the year, in vain hopes...
By Ben Apatoff JULIE CHRISTMAS could sing a bus schedule and make it sound compelling. On The Bad Wife, her solo debut, she roars,...
By Ben Apatoff Fear no more. Denver deathgrinders CEPHALIC CARNAGE still sound brutal on Misled by Certainty, their first album without mainstay guitarist ZAC...
By Ben Apatoff Even if his leering mug didn't greet you on the cover, any headbanger worth his horns could tell who wrote this...
By Ben Apatoff The title (Collisions and Castaways) and cover art (a treasure chest washed upon the shore) of Alaskans 36 CRAZYFISTS' sixth album...
By Ben Apatoff Five records into their career, NORMA JEAN aren't losing any energy. Most metalcore vocalists could learn from CORY BRANDAN's ferocious clean...
By Ben Apatoff The cover art suggests that they've missed ALICE IN CHAINS' comeback. The title is taken from a a poem that's almost...
By Ben Apatoff SON OF AURELIUS' label debut, The Farthest Reaches, is already one of the most gushed-about death metal records of the year....
By Ben Apatoff According to founding guitarist BEN WEINMAN, the title of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's new album means "being in a situation where...
By Ben Apatoff Just like the most famous serpent in the Old Testament, Snakes for the Divine will lead you into temptation. It could...
By Ben Apatoff From the moment that "Forced to Rock" introduces Virginia tech-death upstarts ARSIS' new album with a piercing series of bended notes,...
By Ben Apatoff ROB ZOMBIE is one of the most creative frontmen in contemporary metal. Sonically and visually, he's reshaped alterna-metal and rock radio...
By Ben Apatoff If Scenes from Hell is any indication, Beelzebub's lair is not pretty. Choked-sounding saxophones squeal for help, announcing the arrival of...
By Ben Apatoff Until the Light Takes Us, a new documentary chronicling black metal-related crimes in Norway in the early '90s, tells a fascinating...
By Ben Apatoff Why bother reviewing a new album by SLAYER? You'll enjoy it if you liked the last few, and you'll steer clear...
By Ben Apatoff Even without the high profile of a deservedly popular animated documentary series, it's easy to see why DETHKLOK have the highest-charting...
By Ben Apatoff New PEARL JAM sounding too soft? Still too soon to discuss the latest CHRIS CORNELL debacle? Fear not, grungeheads, because ALICE...
by Ben Apatoff Like recent SLAYER or IRON MAIDEN, every new MEGADETH release comes an inevitable wave of "return to form" and "best since...
The cover isn't really what I'd expect from these guys (more Sin City, less Texas v. Johnson,) but at first listen the new DYING...
Kicking off with a gargled bellow (that sounds like the Polish equivalent of "You wanted the best, you got the best!"), BEHEMOTH return with...
