After vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula left the band after "Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus", fans were curious to see how his bladed boots would be filled. After Nachtgarms' (NEGATOR) brief stint as the vocalist, Heljarmadr stepped up to the mic and took the world by storm with an excellent album "Where Shadows Forever Reign", a back-to-form, atmospheric, blasphemous mass of pure black metal terror. Unleashing their bestial wrath in Atlanta at the Masquerade, DARK FUNERAL mesmerize

1. When did Malformity form? And how did you all come up with the name of the band? Dan: 2009 as Lectures On The Apocalypse, 2013/2014 changed the name to Malformity after Eric joined, using our old band’s name. Craig: It seemed better than "Follicaust", which we considered after looking at each other's hair. Glenn: ... Eric: Dan and I played together in high school & college as Malformity. Later Dan, Craig and Billy started a band and tentatively called it Blood Grinder I

This is my first review for Emily Harris's blog, Midnight's Children. My previous reviews have been with Sludgelord. Hopefully you'll take the time to read this as I try to be as descriptive as possible without leaving out some background info about the groups I write about as well. With the help of Keeley Kennahan, we ventured out to 529 on March 17th to review and photograph the Dead Register show whom I have seen multiple times before already. Entertainment has been around

It takes a lot to get me out of the house these days, this is the first tour of the year to inspire that . It brings together three projects that share enough common ground for this to make sense while occupying different sonic spaces. Of the three I would implore you to get there early to catch the act I feel is the most essential, Emma Ruth Rundle. Emma Ruth Rundle’s "Marked For Death " album topped my best of indie rock list last year. Her solo work away from her band Mar

It's 4:00 am and I am at home writing this blog post and uploading photos from tonight's metal show at the 529 in Atlanta with Order Of The Owl, Death Of Kings, Savagist, and Spore Lord. I wish I could have taken more photos of Order Of The Owl, but they literally were so loud that my head made me feel like I was going to faint mid show. I am more deaf than I think I have been in years (even with good ear plugs). NO OTHER band could ever be so damn heavy as to actually for

At 68 years old, Alice Cooper has spent almost 50 years of his life stomping around the planet, getting his head cut off with a guillotine, and conjuring campy horror nasties that would fit as set pieces on Herbert West, Re-Animator VI. With this in mind, I found it equally fitting that the first song playing when I got to the Atlanta Symphony Hall to see the legend in action was “Long Way To Go.” “Yeah we got a long we way to go; We all go a long way to go.” This was fitting