For about a decade, the guitarist and vocalist Shelby Lermo has led the death/black metal trio Ulthar. When Nails returned with their ferocious comeback album Every Bridge Burning last year, frontman ...

Their 8-song album was engineered by Lermo and Matt Michel (Goetia, Left Cross, Antichrist Siege Machine), and it is described as “a brutally succinct statement of nihilism in a world beyond salvation ...

Ah, I can already hear all the belly aching and whinging now — “uhm acktuallee, Babymetal isn’t metal.” It’s far too commonplace whenever anyone says anything positive about the kawaii-metal ...