Into the Grave Festival, August 2018
10-11 August – Leeuwarden, Holland This was the time and place to be for a weekend spiced with an exquisite selection of death, groove,…
groove metal
HELLBOUND video interview: Byzantine in San Francisco, 16 September 2017
Byzantine are on tour in North America with label mates Sacred Reich, promoting their latest album The Cicada Tree. When the tour hit San…
False Flag – Nest of Vipers
False Flag‘s Nest of Vipers is an excellent EP that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Four tracks of prime groove metal. Reference points are Lamb of…
Leave The Living – Pacifist
There is a big Pantera-shaped hole in the metal scene. The question is, what band has the chops to fill it? On the strength…
Kataklysm – Of Gods and Ghosts
There is much speculation about what groove-metal band could fill the gap left by the sad demise of Pantera. On the strength of the…
Valley of the Sun – Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk
Now, you wouldn’t expect a band named Valley of the Sun, the nickname of Phoenix, Arizona, to hail from Cincinnati—a city known colloquially as…
Crowbar – Symmetry in Black
Crowbar’s Sever the Wicked Hand was an awesome album, one of my top albums of 2011. And despite an unfortunate head-kicking incident at MDF,…
BornBroken – The Healing Powers of Hate
Hellbound Metal: “So if you’re looking for something to get you amped at the gym or some such physical activity, BornBroken should do the trick. The Healing Powers of Hate seethes with that kind of adrenaline boosting capacity. And there’s always a market for that.”