The Metal Music Archive

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 […]

Agalloch (Portland, Oregon)           Avant-garde metal act, Agalloch, have the creative freedom to write without any constraints or interjection from anyone else, and produce trance-like hallucinatory air-waves that float effortlessly into your brain taking you firmly on a journey unknown, yet intriguing.   They don’t tour often and write what they feel, and […]