Chris Hawkins

Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV…

It seems the lines between Black and Death Metal have blurred yet again. To call Itheist a Blackened Death Metal…

Like a nuclear reactor explosion – shamelessly watching HBO’s Chernobyl has crept into my subconscious – Vulture‘s new full-length erupts…

ENTOMBED. When people think of Swedish Death Metal, they are the first and foremost band that comes to mind. They…

Kirk Hammett. Gary Holt. Chuck Billy. With names such as the above proliferating the scene, one would be hard-pressed to…

At some point, every Metal fan has come to the precipice where the band just discovered is the real deal,…

Back in 1983, when the Crüe were shouting at the devil, Jeff Becerra and company were enlisting the dark lord…

It has literally been twenty years since my first exposure to KAMPFAR. I reviewed their sophomore effort, Fra Underverdenen, and…

It seems that all life really is about is learning how to accept change, or at least put on the…

Devin Townsend.  What more can be said about this avant-garde, pioneer of progress?  From his beginnings singing with Steve Vai…

Personally, I’ve always been drawn to the music in which I can get lost.  Eerie sounds, dreamscapes, and hallucinatory psychedelia…

Death Metal is huge once again. Seeing the evolution and subsequent peaks and valleys – the late 90s being a…

If one was to survey the annals of Heavy Metal history, scanning for the bands that made the largest impact,…

Jeff Black, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist, started Gatekeeper in 2009 as a solo project.  The band’s core roots include…

Most know Jon Davis as the front man for über-elite Doom outfit Conan.  Since that band formed back in 2006…

Swallow the Sun have released an absolutely flooring, intense new album entitled When a Shadow is Forced into the Light. …

First, I’m going to come clean and say that I came into this review as a non-fan of the band. …

Judas Priest – Firepower:  Like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest had also been putting out mediocre albums on average post-2000.  While…

For the uninitiated, there was a documentary filmed in 1986 entitled Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a cultural snapshot of the…

Going back centuries, Austria has been a center for musical exceptionalism. This rich heritage includes composers such as Franz Schubert…