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Albums You Should Hear: Blotted Science – The Machinations of Dementia
From metalcore to technical death metal, these are albums I truly think stand out above the rest. Albums that I listen to on a regular basis because they’re original, executed well or even both. They...
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Blotted Science Tease New Album
So, Ron Jarzombek’s instrumental tech death project Blotted Science have an upcoming EP called The Animation of Entomology. For the uninformed, the band consists of Ron Jarzombek of Watchtower and...
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Holy Cow! Blotted Science Signed To Basick Records
As if we needed another reason to adore Basick Records, they’ve announced today that they’ve signed instrumental prog metal band Blotted Science. If you aren’t familiar with this band, then take a...
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Really Old Metal Is Actually Pretty Mindblowing
Nowadays, it seems everyone is interested in the newest, most interesting music. The Contortionist have upped the amount of complexity in their new album to 11. Between the Buried and Me have a 15...
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Blotted Science Preparing New Album For 2015 Release
Obscure as he is, Ron Jarzombek is often revered as a progressive metal legend. His body of work — which includes critically acclaimed acts Watchtower and Spastic Ink — has helped influence the wave...
View ArticleSingled Out (10/18 – 10/23): New Music From Cryptopsy, Pomegranate Tiger,...
Singled Out is our weekly column to round-up the singles and new tracks from the past week dropped by bands we cover. Consider this our weekly mix to help keep you all on top of the latest releases...
View ArticleNo Man Is An Island: The Guitar Solo In Modern Metal
Where do solos fit into metal today? With the genre being as astonishingly diverse as it is — with regards to its rich history and evolution as well as the current state of things on its own terms —...
View ArticleEpisode 18 – Engage The Riff Machine
Episode 18! This week we get pretty rambly and political, so warning! Opinions contained within! Including those on subjects like Kanye West, new Fallujah, new Wormed (see below), Eagles of Death Metal...
View ArticleBeyond the Veil: Twelve-Tone Technique
For this week’s Beyond the Veil, I’ll be your substitute teacher. We’re going to look into twelve-tone technique, also called dodecaphony and twelve-tone serialism. It’s a technique used in some of...
View Article47 – Might As Well Call Us SeasonOfMistCast
Yeah, we love pretty much everything on Season of Mist. So what? This week we talk about new music from Thy Catafalque, Brain Drill, Opeth, Snowy Shaw, SHOKRAN (teaser here), Noctem, Victor Wooten‘s...
View Article50 – Back Off Track
Eden’s back! This means we get to talk about stuff like Tidal (this article is awesome by the way), other streaming services, this article about Opeth (which gets us pretty salty), the breakup of Bolt...
View ArticleLuminiferous Aether: Science Fiction and Metal in 2016
Metal and science fiction clash along various cultural axes. Their marriage begins with tone; both have a penchant for the wildly grandiose and imaginative personas, for personality writ large across a...
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Reign in Blood: The Taxonomy of Thrash Metal
Welcome back to our Taxonomy series, where we break down umbrella genres like progressive metal, post rock and doom metal and outline all of the progressions and subgenres that have matriculated over...
View ArticleThe Metal Explosion: 1985 – 1987
If the story of 1980 to 1984 was how NWOBHM (and more specifically, Iron Maiden) awoke metal from its dormancy to tear the boundaries of popular music, then 1985 – 1987 is about the coronation of...
View ArticleLove Letter – Iron Maiden’s Powerslave
The year is 1984 and Iron Maiden are in an interesting position. Hot off the tails of two great releases and their first major tour, the band are starting to feel the pressures and joys of success at...
View ArticleHowling Sycamore – Howling Sycamore
What in god’s name is even avant-garde? It seems to be a moniker used for at least four different things, and maybe even more, at the same time. It’s a genre, a sound, an approach, a movement in art...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE DOUBLE PREMIERE: The Fractured Dimension – Bedevilment And...
Ever heard of Scholomance? Their tenure lasted between 1995 and 2003, and they were way ahead of their time. Helmed by keyboard player extraordinaire Jimmy Pitts (Eternity’s End, Equipoise, NYN), their...
View ArticleThe Anatomy Of: Sacral Rage
In celebration of their fantastic second album, Beyond Celestial Echoes, we caught up with the members of the Greek four-piece Sacral Rage to delve a bit deeper into the albums that changed their lives...
View ArticleHey! Listen to blackQueen!
OK folks, it’s time to get weird. Specifically, it’s time to get black metal weird which is my favorite kind of weird these days and honestly something the black metal scene needs way more of. Hailing...
View ArticleAlarum – Circle’s End
The thing about Australia is, it’s very big. Really, its very hard to imagine how big that place is and it’s not helped by the fact that most of it is endless desert. More pertinent to our discussion...
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