Chris Hawkins

Sanhedrin – The Poisoner While there are countless bands out there who seek by divination to discover the sacred flame…

Gatecreeper is a force to be reckoned with. After releasing the oppressively heavy debut, Sonoran Depravation in 2016 and endless…

Joel Grind is a Metal lifer if there ever was one. With a rebellious innately predatory sense for expression through…

The new album, Bowels of Earth, from Entombed A.D. is absolutely crushing. It is seriously one of those albums that…

Heavy music has been a mainstay in culture for some five decades now. Though popularity has fluctuated with inherent ups…

The definition of communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news. There are obviously myriad ways in which…

Some have posited that existence is merely a simulation.  Perhaps somewhere in deep space, large-eyed grey aliens are gathered around…

Deutschland is the fabled breeding ground for some of the most prolific artists in music history. From the symphonic bombast…

Black Metal has roots deeply burrowed in the catacombs of the history of musical evolution.  Some 200 years ago, Europeans…

Finsterforst is an epic band from Schwarzwald, Baden-Württembeg, Germany.  Over the course of four full-length releases, the band has decidedly…

A shadow descends over the winding landscape beneath the dominating mountains as a solitary, bloated cloud boldly makes its way…

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…