Avant-garde Mothra: Decision Process If you threw 90% of the heavyweight instrumental bands currently making music into a deep dark pit, I’d wager that few of them would ever be missed. I mean, let’s be
Abyss Six Noises’ 2015 Extravaganza: Metal Part 2 *Welcome to the fourth post of Six Noises’ 2015 end-of-year shenanigans. Over the next few weeks, I’m letting fly with a bunch of lists cataloguing first-rate metal, punk, and riotous New Zealand
Black Metal Favourite Metal Albums Of 2014 Normally, I’d have posted the list of my favourite metal albums from 2014 back in December last year. But at that time I was busy dealing with (read: freaking out about) a
Avant-garde Tis The Season: Part Two Welcome back. In part two of Tis the Season we’re continuing on with the lists of top picks from 2014 that were graciously handed to Six Noises by a variety of writers,
Barren Earth Barren Earth—The Devil's Resolve Barren Earth—The Devil’s Resolve (Peaceville, 2012) Why you’re all not endlessly raving about Finnish sextet Barren Earth is beyond me. The progressive death and doom band’s second full-length, The
Avant-garde Best of 2011—The Metal (Part 2) ** Best Metal Albums 2011 (Part 2)** Well, here’s the top 20, which was a much easier task to compile than the rest. Again, you’ll note that I have cheated, and double-ups
Avant-garde Best of 2011—The Metal (Part 1) ** Best Metal Albums 2011 (Part 1)** So, 2011, that was an interesting year in metal huh? This year I got organized early and kept a running score of albums I loved, loathed, or
Avant-garde The Atlas Moth—An Ache for the Distance (Originally posted on the hellishly good Hellbound.ca) The Atlas Moth released their debut full-length, A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky, in 2009. It was an enjoyable—if not wholly original—album, stacked
Opeth Opeth–Heritage (Originally posted on the hellishly good Hellbound.ca) Heritage is the 10th album from Sweden’s Opeth. Discarding the nuanced melodic death metal that has secured their reputation thus far, their new album
Arch/Matheos Arch/Matheos—Sympathetic Resonance (Originally posted on the hellishly good Hellbound.ca) Although vocalist John Arch exited Fates Warning in the late ’80s there has always been a core of fans whose adoration for the band’s