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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
After years of underachieving, the popular Detroit band starts to live up to expectations on their fourth album. When Detroit's the Black Dahlia Murder turned heads with their 2003 debut Unhallowed and scored a significant commercial breakthrough on Miasma a couple years later, the feeling among some, including yours truly, was, "Sure, it's great to see a band that's infinitely...
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Metal Martyr (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Ohio’s SKELETONWITCH have just wrapped up their North American fall touring, which had them on the road since September, supporting CHILDREN OF BODOM and then THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER. The band has a few down days before they head over to Europe to co-headline with TOXIC HOLOCAUST and GOATWHORE. They’re supporting their second full length for PROSTHETIC RECORDS, “Breathing...
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Culture Bully (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Under Siege: A weekly recap of the noteworthy riffage from the wicked world of metal and hardcore... this week: Slayer, Byzantine, Gama Bomb, Devin Townsend, Toxic Holocaust, the Black Dahlia Murder & more!
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From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Everhaunting Past Chapter IV: A Splendid Retrospection is quite the redundant mouthful of an album title, and perhaps the band should have sunk more time into the music. This is the 3rd album from the Germans, a dense offering of the very typical Swedish melodic deathstyle, with the usual influences in Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates . The band's previous album Sterling Black Icon was...
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Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
by BBG Skeletonwitch at Scion Rock Fest (more by Steven Brown) Skeletonwitch must pretty much live in their van. Luckily that means that NYC has another SW date to look forward to, 11/14 at Union Pool with the incredamazing Black...