Unlike so many second-tier American heavy metal bands of the early 1980s, Los Angeles’ Malice had the decency to…
Malice – New Breed of Godz (2012)
Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65 (2012)
When the criminally unheralded career of underground doom icons Saint Vitus whimpered to an inglorious…
Impending Doom – Baptized in Filth (2012)
Baptized In Filth is the fourth studio album by American death metal band Impending Doom. It was released on March 13, 2012 through the E1 Music label…
Impending Doom – There Will Be Violence (2010)
There Will Be Violence is the third studio album by Christian extreme metal band Impending Doom and was released worldwide…
Terrorizer – Hordes of Zombies (2012)
Hordes of Zombies is the third studio album by grindcore band Terrorizer, released on February 28, 2012 through Season of Mist.[1] This is…
Buckethead – Electric Sea (2012)
Electric Sea is the thirty-fifth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. It is the sequel to his 2002 release “Electric…
Black Country Communion – Afterglow (2012)
Black Country Communion recorded their third album, 2012′s Afterglow, in a matter of weeks, and it shows. Its songs sound by and large looser and more spontaneous than the oftentimes…
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis (2012)
While one would be hard-pressed to characterize any of the album’s in High on Fire’s devastating oeuvre as particularly “weak,” there was certainly a mild sense of creative stasis hovering around…
Fear Factory – The Industrialist (2012)
Very few bands ever live up to their name quite like Fear Factory. Even with just two original members left in the band, Fear Factory continue to deliver album after album of metal honed with…
Korn – The Path of Totality Tour: Live at the Hollywood Palladium (2012)
Just a year after giving their sound an electronic overhaul on Path of Totality, Korn chronicle the album’s supporting tour on Live at the Hollywood Palladium. As with the…
Exodus – Shovel Headed Tour Machine Live at Wacken and Other Assorted Atrocities (2010)
Extensive lineup changes have caused some metal bands to fall apart creatively, while others have a way of bouncing back; it’s safe to say that Exodus falls into the second category. The Bay…
Bleeding Through – The Great Fire (2012)
Orange County metalcore outfit Bleeding Through’s seventh studio album wastes little time in pulling the meat off…
Deftones – Koi No Yokan (2012)
Though the band emerged on the fringes of nü-metal, one of metal’s more unfortunate pushes into the mainstream, Deftones’ steady shift toward a more artful, experimental sound has made them…
In This Moment – Blood (2012)
Blood, the fourth studio outing from Los Angeles, California-based arena metalcore outfit In This Moment, retains much of 2010′s A Star-Crossed Wasteland’s pop sheen, while adding new electronic…
As I Lay Dying – Awakened (2012)
Honing their sound with razor-sharp precision, As I Lay Dying return with more driving, melodic thrash on their sixth album, Awakened. While the band’s level of technical acumen and intensity isn’t much…
Autopsy – The Tomb Within (2010)
This five-song blast from the death-grind pioneers breaks absolutely no new ground. They are the same band they were on 1991′s Mental Funeral, playing…
White Wizzard – Flying Tigers (2011)
Flying Tigers is the second studio album by heavy metal band White Wizzard, released on September 19, 2011 in Europe[3] and in North America on…
Black Cobra – Invernal (2011)
Contrary to what some observers may presume, Black Cobra’s shift of producer from Bay Area veteran Billy…
Five Finger Death Punch – American Capitalist (2011)
For their third album, Five Finger Death Punch deliver another dose of crunchy, hard-hitting jams ready-made for…
Carnifex – Until I Feel Nothing (2011)
The album was generally praised by critics, especially for its musicianship. Clarke Read of Revolver favored the band’s musicianship in…
Carnifex – Hell Chose Me (2010)
The band started writing and recording for Hell Chose Me throughout 2009. Upon its release it gained a much higher positive…
Machine Head – Unto the Locust (2011)
By and large, heavy metal fans certainly have longterm memories. And if you’re a band that established themselves in a metal way, by veering a bit too much off the…
Korn – The Path of Totality (2011)
Korn remembered who they were just in time to forget it all again on The Path of Totality, an unexpected left turn into dubstep…
Lou Reed / Metallica – Lulu (2011)
First and foremost, Lulu is a Lou Reed album. Metallica may receive collaborative billing, and Reed has made canny…