Knoxville, Tennessee, might not be a city one associates with sweeping occult death metal, but Summoner’s Circle are about to put it on the ancient, blood-spattered map. With their new album Chaos Vector, the six-piece sonic […]
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That Know//Suffer hail from Texas makes a lot of sense. The El Paso quintet’s music is appropriately huge, coming at listeners with churlish riffs and bellowed vocals that feel meant to overwhelm and dominate from […]
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Somewhere between death metal’s obsessive technicality and sweeping thematic scope lies Cognitive. The New Jersey quintet’s music is a roiling sea of vengeful riffs and throttling drums that leaves no one second-guessing their abilities as […]
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It is unsurprising that Fulci have a good eye for visual media. The Italian death metal band are literally named after one of horror’s most interesting and legendary directors. Not only that, but on their […]
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If you want to hear a band perform a killer Maiden cover, Californian trad-metal crew White Wizzard are definitely the guys for you. For a decade and change now, these five dudes have been giving […]
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Like any horror movie-addicted metalhead worth their salt, we’re big fans of Ontario gore-mongers VHS. But what some might not know is that members of the band are also involved in a side project named […]
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You can say this for Fernwah — they’re proof that some metal musicians can wrestle almost any sonic python that springs at them. While most of The Pit’s readers probably know band svengali Zakk Mild […]
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You can say this about Living Dead Girl: they know what they’re doing. Led by band founder Molly Rennick, the Canadian spooky groove metal act have their sonic profile down to a T: syrupy, hard-hitting […]
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With a band like Weeping, ugliness is a virtue. The New Jersey three-piece play a mutation of death metal that cuts out much of the genre’s pretense, self-consciousness, and other fatty bits that dilute the […]
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You have to give it to Mountain Caller: they’re making the old feel new again. The London-based three-piece’s music is a mixture of prog, hard rock, and stoner doom — genres that immediately evoke a […]
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