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Swedish classic metal maniacs Century may only have their debut album coming out at the end of the week, but they’ve built up a shocking amount of hype in a short time. This hype culminated in an electric performance at Houston’s own Hell’s Heroes festival earlier this month to a packed room on a bigger stage thanContinue reading “Century Usher in a New Era with “The Conquest of Time” (Early Album Stream + Interview)”

Improvement, evolution, and epic heavy metal are some of my favorite things–what could make for a more perfect combination? Over the years I have never pretended to be a particularly big fan of the older material from Vancouver’s Gatekeeper, nor have I been silent about my admiration as they’ve refined their sound and gotten better andContinue reading ““From Western Shores,” Gatekeeper’s Epic Metal Sails On Mighty Wings (Interview)”

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The vast majority of the original extreme metal musicians from the 1980s have long since abandoned both the underground and extreme metal altogether. It’s legendary at this point how the musicians from cult bands like Cartilage (Fin), Dominus (DE), and Repugnant (Swe) have gone on to play with bands like Nightwish, Volbeat, and Ghost. MostContinue reading ““In Darkness at Last,” Ares Kingdom’s Death Metal Continues a Violent Tradition (Interview)”