Get ready to snap your head clean off your neck. At the end of this post, you will find an exclusive song stream from Enemy Reign, the Denver death metal band who have a new full-length out called Between Hell And Oblivion. The song is called “Forged From Suffering,” and fuck me if it doesn’t Read More
Chris Adler has been getting a lot of ink these days, but as you know, he’s always getting digital ink here at Gun Shy. We recently chatted with the Lamb of God drummer — as we’re want to do — for this next installment in our long-running Adler Chatter series Last month, the winners of Read More
If you still haven’t heard of Moonloop, you’re missing out people. About a month ago, I just listened to their new album Deeply From The Earth and fell in love. Formed in 2001 in Barcelona, Moonloop specializes in progressive death metal in the vein of Opeth and Gojira. In fact, you can hear a new Read More
In 2010, Ihsahn — the former frontman for the almighty Emperor — released what would end up being one of the year’s best albums: After. What struck me about the release, initially, was how brilliantly they wove jazz saxophone into a crushing, dismal progressive metal record. Ihsahn’s forthcoming follow-up, Eremita, is just as brilliant an Read More
Revocation’s Dave Davidson returns for the third installment of his regular food column here at Gun Shy Assassin, and after reading this, I just may have to take a trip to Beantown El Pelon Taqueria has been on my list to review for a long time. It’s an establishment that’s very near and dear to Read More
Are you having a good day? Regardless of your answer, today is about to get a whole lot better. If, by now, you have not purchased Exhumed’s latest album, All Guts, No Glory, well…shame on you. The album destroys, and rips through your eardrums like fresh barbed wire. We have always loved Exhumed. In fact, Read More
As much as I love black metal, death metal, doom, and progressive shit, I also can’t live without spastic grind. I guess, technically, one might call Heikousen mathcore, but I hate that tag. All I can tell you is Heikousen is fucking tight. I have been listening to their new album Parallels and all I Read More
Chris Adler is the man. He is one of the coolest, nicest dudes, and I’m still humbled as always to be able to share with you some of our informal, casual conversations. Here now for you is part of my most recent chat with Chris, who, as you well know, is the drummer for Lamb Read More
Since the beginning, this one band — Acaro — and several of its members have been commenting on our Facebook page and on our stories, oftentimes making us chuckle. They have always been supportive of the site and our efforts since the get, so now’s the time where we repay the dudes for being such Read More
For drummer Kenny Grohowski, manning the kit for progressive death metal act Hung may be merely the pinnacle of what’s been an impressive, nearly 15-year musical career. Not yet 30, Grohowski has been touring with all kinds of bands since he was 15. “My first tour was with a salsa band,” Grohowksi tells Gun Shy Read More