by Chip McCabe | Sep 12, 2014 | Dissident Aggression, New Music
You can always tell when a sub-genre of metal is growing in popularity. The pretenders and bandwagon riders start to come out in full force. We saw it with thrash, death metal, black metal, etc. You name it there have been instances when a genre’s rise in popularity...
by Chip McCabe | Aug 22, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
The deserts of the Southwestern United States, specifically those of Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern California, are magical places. They are filled with more energy and mysticism than most any other places in the world. It’s from one of the largest cities...
by Chip McCabe | May 16, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
Some music is meant to simply clobber. It’s built with a battering ram aesthetic and rumbles through headphones like some prehistoric, ancient beast, unaware of the true destruction it wields. One fine example of music that simply cold-cocks you from note one...
by Chip McCabe | Feb 21, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
It could be stated, with few arguments, that the British Isles have done more for the advancement of doom metal than any other part of the world. It could also be argued that if you were to make up a list of the greatest doom metal bands of all-time that it would...
by Chip McCabe | Jan 17, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
Every now and then a band comes lumbering out of a scene and immediately places themselves right at the forefront. In this case the scene in question is Nashville. “Music City” has long been known as a Mecca of country, folk, bluegrass and the blues,...