Still Life Moving Fast

Channeling the hardcore sound that acts as the foundation of metalcore and post-hardcore, Funeral for a Friend look to the driving sounds of the past on their circle pit-inducing sixth album, Conduit. While there are still plenty of melodic elements ...

Not only was Agalloch's Pale Folklore an astoundingly ambitious and accomplished debut, it made for a stark geographical anomaly, since its eclectic, avant-garde folk-metal was the sort of thing one would expect to emerge from Scandinavia -- not Portland, OR. ...

The 14th studio album from venerable German power metal outfit Helloween kicks off with the blistering Nabatea, a typically ambitious, seven-minute epic concerning a kingdom of nomadic, Mediterranean, peace-loving folks swallowed up by the Roman Empire in AD 106. From ...

Hinder bid farewell to lead singer Austin Winkler after 2012's Welcome to the Freakshow, and along with him he took a fair amount of the band's vulgar strut. This isn't to say 2015's When the Smoke Clears, Hinder's first album ...