NYC metal lifer Rick Habeeb has stories to tell. Read about the ten albums that influenced his band's new Dan Swano-mastered album (which features members of Artificial Brain, Revocation, and Buckshot Facelift), hear a new track, and check them out at one of their three upcoming shows.
It's here: the 20th anniversary of Opeth's "Still Life," a quintessential progressive death metal masterpiece. We talked with Mikael Åkerfeldt at length and reflected on the sounds which would become metal history.
The band's 13th full-length (released today) continues their eschewal of death metal for something, well, actually resolutely Opethian and downright beautiful to boot. Here's our in-depth review.
All the new metal releasing between September 22nd and September 28th, 2019 -- spin (or skip) new music from Opeth, Borknagar, Car Bomb, and so many more.
Writer Langdon Hickman reflects on death metal's multidimensional (and ultimately personal) meaning, including a foray into Opeth, in this inaugural edition of his new column.