It's been a much quieter back half of the year here then we typically are accustomed to, but life has taken over the driver seat for u...

 2018 was my first full year as a parent of two, and if that doesn't frighten you, then you must not be human. 2018 was a year that ...

 We have always been big fans of Horrendous, dating back to the release of The Chills. The band is now on album #4 with the 2018 release o...

Denver's Dreadnought are no strangers to us here at Brutalitopia. Their previous effort, A Wake in Sacred Waves , was my top album of ...

About two weeks ago, a can't-miss tour rolled through Boise in the form of Yob and Bell Witch.  Yob is one of the best bands of our ...

Skeletonwitch’s original claim was being a bit different from bands of the re-thrash movement of the late oughts, with vocalist Chance Gar...

Metal festivals are all alike; each metal festival is metal in it's own way.  Tolstoy said that (or something quite similar), and this...

When we last heard from legendary prog-metallers Between the Buried and Me, it was way back on March 9 of 201...8.  So fourteen weeks ago...

Time will show the true extent of how much Mgła's Exercises in Futility is a milestone for black metal, not only by its own merit, bu...

Metal, like other art forms, has a loosely structured cycle in which innovation begets imitation begets inspiration begets innovation, and...

Instrumental rock/metal bands that I listen to typically fall into two different camps. There's either technically awe-inspiring bands...

Since their debut full-length The Unkindness of Crows  in 2009, Eagle Twin has quietly been one of my favorite bands.  ...Crows  was like ...

The following is my personal journey with Judas Priest from beginning of fandom to today. I found the path toward Firepower to be a thera...

The "post-" genre seems to have taken on a life of it's own in the past few years.  When I began listening to metal intentl...

 In the world of contemporary progressive metal, there are few names bigger than Between the Buried and Me. Ever since 2005's Alaska ,...

Salt Lake City's Visigoth hit the metal scene hard with their debut The Revenant King back in 2015. It was chock full of love for ban...

Chicago-natives The Atlas Moth have always had a special place within my rotation of music that I choose to listen to. Unlike the vast maj...

I used to not be too big on splits.  I think that 's because I thought I wasn't getting enough music; usually a track or two from ...

I don't think "fitting" is the right word, but I find it humorous that in my Top Albums of 2017 list , I mentioned how Tribu...

Hello and Happy New Year from the Töp!  I hope your New Year's Eve revelries were full of all the drunken debauchery (or sleep) that y...