I think everyone has their own particular tastes they gravitate to. It’s not exactly a guilty pleasure though. It’s just your personal taste. But despite it being your favorite, it can get a little stale after a while. If you’re reading this article, it’s possible that you feel like you’ve…
A whole host of good oceanic adjectives come to mind when trying to describe Vallenfyre’s sound, like “roiling,” “crashing,” “deep,” or “furious.” Although these UK extreme metal stalwarts don’t play music particularly themed towards deep bodies of water in the same way as, say, The Ocean, their sound burbles and hisses in a similar manner to some forgotten Cambrian trench, oozing and rushing in various degrees through briny swill and hot gas. Fear Those Who Fear Him, the third outing from Vallenfyre, doesn’t do much to change this – no big stylistic shift in trajectory has occurred in the three years since Splinters – but hey, when you’ve got a formula that routinely kicks this much ass, is there any reason to mess with it?
After nearly two decades of silence and side projects, Sweden’s melodic death metal maestros At the Gates dropped 2014’s seamless At War With Reality and have been assaulting the entire globe with a touring schedule as relentless as the riffs ever since. With a confidence and chemistry most full-time bands would kill for year after years of relentless practice, At the Gates really do seem like one of the most proficiently savage and insanely-catchy bands to ever emerge (and then re-emerge) from this subgenre.
For countless doom metal fans, the English trio of Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride are the ones who wrote the proverbial book on the genre in their halcyon days before embarking on different paths throughout their careers. Over the course of twenty five years, Paradise Lost has had…
If you’re in the northern hemisphere like most of you who read this site, then you’re no doubt enjoying the benefits of natural seasonal changes as the nightmare that was winter 2015 has given way to a beautiful spring. And if you’re in the southern hemisphere — particularly if you’re…
We’ve not heard much from the Paradise Lost camp for a while, what with vocalist Nick Holmes busy fronting the legendary Swedish death metal supergroup Bloodbath and guitarist Gregor Mackintosh pummeling skulls in his own side project Vallenfyre, but thankfully that’s about to change. The prolific death/doom band will be releasing their 14th full length album,…
Decibel Magazine’s Decibel Tour is currently raging across North America with the mighty At the Gates leading the charge. With a brand new album, At War With Reality, nearly twenty years after their magnum opus in Slaughter of the Soul, the group who pioneered the true Gothenburg sound returned with…
For those who missed our last installment, we will now be regularly posting what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that doesn’t fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no…
Almost as if they had not already been jettisoned into favor and acclaim among the online metal community practically overnight when Pallbearer launched their debut album Sorrow & Extinction in 2012, the band were propelled into the upper echelons of doom metal with an amazing year in 2014 with the…
Just as us sleuths at Heavy Blog previously suspected, Pallbearer have been officially confirmed as the fourth act featured on the 2015 edition of the Decibel Magazine Tour, surprising exactly no one. Check out more details after the jump. The hot up-and-coming doom metal quartet will be performing alongside Swedish death pioneers At the…
