The Metal Music Archive

Terrorizer (Los Angeles, California) Do you like Morbid Angel?  How about Napalm Death?  Well you’re in luck!  If you like those bands, then you already have this band’s albums.  Terrorizer came just before Morbid Angel, bringing you that balance of hardcore and death metal to give you what we call grindcore.  They weren’t the first to […]

Incantation (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)                          Sludging through the stomach of Satan, comes Incantation to help regurgitate what is strikingly morbid and at times, scary ass music.  They could be hell’s soundtrack; unhinged, disorienting music with evil riffs coursing through it’s heavy-as-hell veins.  They tend to give you […]

Entombed (Stockholm, Sweden)                        Raw and undeniably heavy with tastefully darkened riffs ravaging the sound-scape.  Mature songwriting abound to create very memorable tunes.  The starting of ‘buzz-saw’ sounding guitars are very much tied to Entombed.  Although some bands like Repulsion did that before them, Entombed’s writing […]

Immortal (Bergen, Norway)                            Summoned from the cold forests of Norway came a musical life-force that will live on forever in the blackened hearts of generations to come.  They are, and will remain Immortal.  With riffs so infectious, Immortal should be a disease.  It […]

Pig Destroyer (Richmond, Virginia)               They’re not big on destroying pigs in the literal sense, although I’m sure they may eat bacon or the occasional ham sandwich, the name is actually derived from the term cop killer.  Which I’m sure they don’t do that either, but rather a political punch to […]

Origin (Topeka, Kansas)              Searing riffs leap toward you attacking the stratospheric barrier and destroying the ozone layer, dooming us with catastrophic consequences.  Origin’s riffs are dangerous, but just too bad-ass to be left behind bars.  So instead of conviction, they are released into the atmosphere, further convincing you that this is one […]

Gojira (Bayonne, France)                       Something massive is rising from the water.  The closer it gets, the louder it is.  Growling, stomping, quaking the ground under your feet.  And just before the sun rises, it hits the shore.  As it walks towards you it forms an eclipse from […]

The Faceless (Encino, California)                         The Faceless were probably abducted by the most sinister aliens ever, that upon release because of their metal playing prowess, were told to spread the message of the aliens through sound.  And what came after was bouts of sonic explosions dense […]

Benediction (Birmingham, England)                 Do you like Death Metal?  So does Benediction.  Quite a lot in fact.  These guys have been around it, through it, above it and back again.  Veterans of the genre, these guys have been creating earthquakes of sound since the late 80’s.       […]

Celtic Frost (Zurich, Switzerland)                  Many people consider Celtic Frost Extreme Metal as a term to encompass the different sub-genres they harnessed into their sound including, death, thrash, black, doom, and gothic metal.  One of the most influential metal bands to date, they are still one of the heaviest to […]

Brutal Truth (New York, New York)                   When you say the word heavy, you say it with meaning when speaking of Brutal Truth.  They give it to you raw and uncooked.  It may go down rough, but it’s a satisfying meal.  This band has been making crowds […]

Possessed (San Francisco, California)              Dark clouds hover above with the promise of a storm.  And storm it did.  In the mid 80’s Possessed were a hurricane of creativity and evil themes, helping give the ultimate birth to Death Metal.  At the time there were bands such as Celtic Frost, […]