Where Sentenced, Tiamat, and HIM leave off: Sometimes ultra-cheesy and weak, other times it gels, with bold guitars and keyboards playing off each other.
Highly-energized EBM laced with industrial guitar and effected vocals reminiscent of both Nivek Ogre and Marilyn Manson. Tyler Newman is half of Informatik.
Bad Wizard are less artists than craftsmen, a band of men (plus one foxy woman) who work hard to make music that’s solid, dependable, and totally functional.
A strange metal album that defies categorization. It might be a bit over-the-top for some, and little hard to follow for others, but Atrocity make it work.
What sets Tom Shear apart from future pop/EBM musicians is his ability let a song breathe and restrain the urge to throw in everything but the kitchen sink.
You really should know about Wire, especially if you care about any sort of post-whatever rock music being played today. Up there with Can, VU, and The Fall.
High-energy boogie rock that immediately brings Cactus’s finest moments to mind. Thundering, simple, dumb blues/boogie riffs with the force of a jackhammer.
Enigmatic lead singer Pasi Koskinen’s swansong is an interesting, not altogether successful, return to heaviness, although it’s more la trip to a new heaviness.
Bloodied but unbowed Viking metal. Man, album after album, these guys crack me up. The Viking lessons never grow tired, and live, Amon Amarth kill with power.