Adapting Kiss’ Creatures of the Night to Preachers of the Night is funny. If it’s serious, that’s dopey. It’s multilayered powermetal, could go either way.
Great album name, solid stoner/doom band from Japan. Lke Down, ya can’t understand a goddamn word, but the riffs are thick and heavy, so you let it (mud)slide.
An incredible step forward for these up-and-comers, and they already had their Mercyful Fate-inspired heavy metal down pretty cold on their last album.
Remixes from the band’s 2012 release, X Amount of Stab Wounds in the Back, and this reworking by Imperative Reaction is even more harrowing than the original.
Raspy-voiced bar room punk from San Francisco. Combining horns, dark ska upstroke, punk charge, and blind-staggering to please Social D and Pogues fans.
They’ve been on a resurgence since Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. Someone decided it was time to shake out an album’s worth of b-sides and rarities.
Even if their new stuff isn’t as world-beatingly awesome as that of their glory days, it’s guaranteed to be way more badass than most new rock ‘n’ roll.
Chilly electro indie rock that you quickly warm up to, in the vein of Junior Boys or Supersystem. Maps is one dude – James Chapman from Northampton, England.
Sweden’s black metal hellions Watain have been on a fearsome tear. The Wild Hunt finds them expanding their ambition with ballads and other left turns.