Thall Baker’s Top 10 of 2017
January 12th, 2018 | Featured
2017 is finally over and, unsurprisingly, was another great year for metal music. While my personal musical tastes have been far less extreme this time ... Read More
Thall Baker’s Top 10 of 2016
January 5th, 2017 | Best Of 2016
While 2016 was not the best year in a social or geopolitical sense, there were a lot of great metal albums released. Many classic bands ... Read More
Extreme Metal Gateway Songs
June 28th, 2016 | Bands To Watch Out For
In late 2015, Old Skul wrote an interesting piece about metal gateway songs. The editorial basically discussed the specific songs that introduced him to the ... Read More
The Real Sub-Genres Pt. 3
May 10th, 2016 | Featured
We’ve come to the conclusion that the current metal sub-genres just don’t cut it. Pfft. No way 50+ is enough. Worse yet, distinctions like “post-techincal-grinding-hermit-death-slam” ... Read More
Whitechapel. Next to Join the Revival Nu Metal Scene?
May 9th, 2016 | Deathcore
Alright, so this might just be mindless speculation on my part, but I have to say it. After listening to their latest single it dawned ... Read More
Bands to Watch Out For – Myrath / Toothgrinder / Elder
April 1st, 2016 | Bands To Watch Out For
Myrath
Myrath have been around for a while, but given that they just released their latest album “Legacy” earlier this year it only seems appropriate to ... Read More
Guilty Pleasures
January 29th, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Guilty pleasure. It’s an odd term that has been developed to describe specific artifacts within our culture that we are too ashamed to admit we ... Read More
The Real Sub-Genres Pt. 2
January 6th, 2016 | Featured
We’ve come to the conclusion that the current metal sub-genres just don’t cut it. Pfft. No way 50+ is enough. Worse yet, distinctions like “post-techincal-grinding-hermit-death-slam” ... Read More
Revisiting the Dismissed: An Exercise in Giving Bands a Second Chance
August 20th, 2015 | Metalcore
Perhaps one of the greatest things about being human is having the ability to change your mind. Think about this for a second. Has there ... Read More
The Real Sub-Genres
August 19th, 2015 | Featured
We've come to the conclusion that the current metal sub-genres just don't cut it. Pfft. No way 50+ is enough. Worse yet, distinctions like "post-techincal-grinding-hermit-death-slam" ... Read More
