by Chip McCabe | Sep 22, 2016 | Interviews
With the recent release of a career-spanning retrospective concert on DVD and Blu-Ray, Doro Pesch has once again returned to the collective metal consciousness. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last that the name Doro has been talked about in metal...
by Chip McCabe | Jun 9, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
As Canadian hardcore band Grade once sang on their seminal Separate The Magnets album, sometimes, “…life gets in the way of living…” That’s a somewhat overly dramatic way of saying the weekly Dissident Aggression column will be taking a brief hiatus for a few months....
by Chip McCabe | Jun 2, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
We could debate until the cows come home exactly which bands deserve the ‘underrated’ tag. Within each sub-genre there are literally dozens upon dozens of bands that the metal consensus cries foul about not getting their due. One such act in the black...
by Chip McCabe | May 26, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
They say seven is a lucky number. There’s also supposedly dark magic behind the number seven. Seven years of bad luck for a whole host of reasons, so say the superstitions. Maybe it’s the fact that it has been seven long years since their last full-length,...
by Chip McCabe | May 19, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
It’s been written at length, even in this space, about the varying long, strange trips that many US black metal musicians insist on taking the genre, often with mixed results. While the overt atmospherics and genre-bending can, at times, prove to be interesting...