The Music of “Tetsuo: The Iron Man”
With the Japanese cyberpunk classic Tetsuo: The Iron Man, director Shinya Tsukamoto created not only a noteworthy film work on its own but also inaugurated a world of his devising…
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Mortify – Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow (2022)
Chilean band Mortify presents an effort of notable poise and maturity on just their second full-length album. The main strength on full display in this release lies in the confident…
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Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (2023)
The stylistic lineage that Canadian band Thantifaxath seems to adhere to for this album is one that attempts to use dissonance not as a tool but as a starting point…
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Godflesh – Purge (2023)
The latest offering by iconic and adventurous band Godflesh sees the english duo step back from the experiments of “Post Self” in order to deliver what can be uncontroversially labeled…
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Babylon Whores – King Fear (1999)
The relationship between rock and metal has always been one sided, with metal taking from rock and slowly discarding the influences until any relationship between the two ceased to exist.…
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Oni – Incantation Superstition (2023)
Oni were an Australian band that briefly existed between 1997 and 2003. During that period the band released two short demos and a few splits that featured songs from those…
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Sammath – Grebbeberg (2023)
Dutch black metal legends Sammath return with their latest offering Grebbeberg and unlike most bands that have been releasing music for over 25 years, Sammath still maintain the same passion…
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Black Sabbath (1970-2013)
Conmemorating the revolutionary contributions of Black Sabbath, we cover the band's full-length releases across the years.
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Manowar – Hail to England (1984)
Manowar plays metal’s metal, the impersonal human experience in a universe of action, obsessed with power and overcoming. The paintings here are over-human. We can see the settings, the haunts, painted for us in vivid color by the music, but these are always entirely centered on action, on human action.
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Manowar – Into Glory Ride (1982)
Into Glory Ride is, for all intents and purposes, Manowar's first album. It showcases the power of this music in expression and structure, every minute dramatic and exciting.