It's been a few years' wait since Sweden's Witchery last delivered, but Witchkrieg makes it pretty clear they haven't been wasting time. Sho...

I might have been anticipating the new Nevermore album a little too much. After being wowed one more time by 2005's This Godless Endeavour,...

Usually it's the complex albums that take some time to grow on you, so after extended re-play, Cynic Paradise ended up catching me off guard...

After my disappointment with Madder Mortem's latest album, Eight Ways, the Where Dream and Day Collide EP is a tantalizing, but too short re...

Wandering inside Toronto's Wreck Room, you couldn't quite escape the bright sun streaming in around the windows and doors of the dark club....

I could swear I heard U2 on the sound system after making my way through the Mod Club doors, and if it hadn't been for all the goth-attired...

Out of Negura Bunget's two latest releases, Maiestrit is the retrospective album, putting an end to one chapter in the band's development wh...

Barren Earth's Our Twilight EP was enough to create a little buzz around the band late last year, but Curse of the Red River is even harder...

I was introduced to Nechochwen as a live act: one man, his deft hands and his classical guitar. That encounter revealed only one dimension o...

Big and lively, Finntroll's newest folk metal extravaganza should come as no great surprise. The range of instrumentation and the symphonic...

Dark Tranquillity are like an old standby: they're good at what they do and fans generally know what to expect, even if the band throw in th...

Universal is both laidback and busy, which may be a sign of Borknagar's typically bold intentions here (if the album title wasn't signal eno...

A "documentary" isn't precisely what you get in this lo-fi look at the pagan metal scene. The whole shebang begins not with a menu but with...

The scalpers were buying, not selling in front of Toronto's Opera House — clearly, the good buzz about this tour had spread. When Scale t...

Sigh's eighth album, Scenes from Hell, is a whirlwind of musical chaos, far more lively than I'd ever imagined hell to be. More like a Carni...

These Are They announced their arrival on the scene with the Who Manifest EP earlier this year, laying down a three-track granite slab of ol...

Semen Datura's third album is a schizophrenic black metal machine. Not content to plough ahead in a straightforward line of blast beats (alt...

If a bunch of Toronto metalheads are now deaf in their right ear, it's Sacrifice's fault. Storming the Opera House for the second time this...

Upon first glance, the new name Devin Townsend Project seems like a redundant, or even sly, move, just a rebranding of the man and his creat...

With its rumbling bass and melancholy melodies, Night is the New Day opens like an expected answer, following Katatonia's last few records w...