by Chip McCabe | Apr 15, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
The history of doom metal is one that runs deep and basically parallel with metal itself. From the first lumbering notes that emanated from Tony Iommi’s fret board, doom metal has been able to trace its roots right back to the genesis of it all. While it may have...
by Chip McCabe | Mar 4, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
There are bands that treat their music like a roller coaster ride – methodical ascensions, drastic descents, stomach churning twists and turns. For the last decade and through a bevvy of releases Germany’s caustic sextet known as Black Shape of Nexus have...
by Chip McCabe | Feb 26, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
It is safe to say at this stage of the game that death metal is currently enjoying quite the renaissance. That’s not to say that the genre withered and died at any point, or that there weren’t quality acts to be found. On the contrary, since the...
by Chip McCabe | Feb 19, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
The continuing allegory being written by Portland’s Eight Bells is one of isolation. Isolation in a world that can be unforgiving and uncaring. While that theme may seem completely overbearing at times, Eight Bells will unfortunately have to come to terms with...
by Chip McCabe | Jan 29, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
Somewhere, deep amid the thorny brambles of the metal world there exists a dimension of pure atmospherics. A place where some of the most talented acts in the metal world spend their days slow-cooking multiple genres in a cauldron of the ethereal. It’s deep...