2018 – METAL PURGATORY MEDIA

TESSERACT – Sonder

Progressive metal is an interesting beast. While a lot of the metal genre prides itself on heaviness, brutality, and speed, prog likes to use advanced songwriting and tight-knit musicianship in order to create unique [click to continue]

JUDAS PRIEST – Firepower

Formed in 1969 from West Bromwich, England, Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band who influenced the new wave of British heavy metal bands from Black Sabbath and many others. Firepower is the eighteenth [click to continue]

SUSPERIA – The Lyricist

Many bands through the years evolve their sound, bounce through genres and find new voices and this is living proof of sometimes a different approach works out well. Poland’s Susperia are no strangers to the metal [click to continue]

ORPHANED LAND – Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

Many metal bands nowadays lack something major that some of us enjoy and that is a strong message. Orphaned Land has always stood behind their political and moral views and five years after All Is One, the Israeli [click to continue]

DIVULSOR – Defiled Corridors of Ruptured Oblivion

Brutal death metal can be a tricky genre, especially when it comes to trying to sound as brutal as possible without sacrificing the songwriting in the process. While some bands try and end up making albums that sound [click to continue]

BURIED ABOVE GROUND – The Crown

Seeing a local band grow in size is always a great thing. Buried Above Ground are a band that have gone from Minnesota locals to a new, fresh face in the deathcore genre. On Tuesday, their new album “The Crown” [click to continue]

FOOTAGE OF A YETI – Purging The Human Condition

Deathcore is a relatively new genre. At the same time, multiple waves have already come and gone, giving the genre plenty of old and new bands to populate its ranks. One of these newer bands if Footage of a Yeti, a band [click to continue]

INTERVIEW with INFERI

So we took a moment to speak with Malcolm Pugh of Inferi about new material, touring and future of Technical Death Metal. MP: Please introduce yourselves to what you do in the band: Malcolm Pugh: My name is Malcolm Pugh [click to continue]

NECROPHOBIC – Mark Of The Necrogram

Stockholm, Sweden’s extreme metal band Necrophobic have returned to the fiery depths after being in the darkest shadows for approximately five years and are back full force to create a album that’s punishing [click to continue]

KALMAH – Palo

Finland is one of the best destinations for metal fans, not only do they have the highest number of metal bands per capita, but many bands from the country and really damn good. One of these bands is “Kalmah”, who [click to continue]