2014 was an spectacular year for metal with countless releases from every corner imaginable. Every subgenre saw multiple albums that achieved incredible feats from Job For A Cowboy’s “Sun Eater” to Behemoth’s “The Satanist”. A new year has recently rolled in and we can only hope to see a fraction of great new music…
In comparison to other genres of music, metal is one of the hardest genres to acquire the taste for. As if lighter genres of metal weren’t already too heavy and extreme for many listeners, a portion of metal takes the most severe aspects of the already daring music to the outermost possibilities of modern music….
Obituary has a long history, both with me personally, and in the Death Metal scene in general. They remain one of my favorite bands in the genre, and have proven their competence among their peers and in a scene cluttered and saturated with acts looking to be the next, well…Obituary. But I would be remiss…
Some bands make waves; Battlecross makes tsunamis. Over the last year-and-a-half, the Canton, Michigan group has taken the metal world by storm by combining slabs-of-steel riffing, machine-gun drumming and larynx-shredding vocals to create its signature brand of death-infused thrash.
