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Arguably probably the most influential and successful European thrash metal band ever, Germany’s Kreator will also be the most enduring. Like a lot of their Western acceleration metallic brethren, Kreator fused Metallica’s thrash improvements with Venom’s proto-black metallic imagery, sparked it with Motörhead’s balls-out speed, and capped it off using …

Among the United Says’ most influential loss of life metallic group’s, Immolation formed in Yonkers, NY in 1986; originally dubbed Rigor Mortis, the group first comprised vocalist/bassist Ross Dolan, guitarists Robert Vignaud and Thomas Wilkinson, and drummer Craig Smilowski. Following a group of well-received demos, Immolation authorized to Roadrunner in …

In Ruins began as some basement demos documented by founder/mastermind J. Michael in 1994, as the Reading, PA, indigenous was still fronting the neighborhood metal outfit Internal Sanctum. Focusing on his personal having a sequencer, Michael laid the sonic foundations for In Ruins with an EP of textural, gothic dark …

The lifelong obsession of indefatigable vocalist Brian Ross, Blitzkrieg were among a small number of lesser-known New Wave of Uk ROCK acts who must have faded into rock & roll obscurity way back when had it not been for Metallica covering among their songs. Ross initial founded Blitzkrieg by the …

Oslo, Norway’s Aura Noir is really a side project for a few of the neighborhood extreme steel scene’s most noted luminaries, to wit: vocalist/bassist Ole Jørgen Moe, guitarist Carl-Michael Eide (both of these also with Cadaver and Dødheimsgard), guitarist Rune Erickson (Mayhem, Mezzerschmitt), and, lately, drummer Dirge Rep (Enslaved, Gehenna, …

Sick and tired of the state from the music industry and punk rock and roll in general following the 2006 breakup from the Suicide Devices, singer Jay Navarro made a decision to route his contempt and reveal it using the world, having a baby to Hellmouth. Remaining near his Michigan …

Wastelander hail in the decadent industrial, umm…wasteland of Lansing, MI, that your band’s two protagonists — vocalist, guitarist, and bassist Matt Battle (ex-Harbinger) and guitarist and support vocalist Sean “Xaphan” Peters (Summon, Lucifer’s Hammer, Dark Psychosis, etc.) — could have you believe may be the seventh group of hell (or …

Rock magazine authors Marty Rytkonen (aka Worm) and S. Craig Zahler (aka Czar) became a member of causes in Charnel Valley with the purpose of exorcising their basest dark metallic kinks — a feat achieved through 2005’s favorably primordial The Dark Archives EP, making Darkthrone appear to be Dream Theater!