Ailo’s Best of 2014 Lists
TMO’s Best Albums of 2014
You’ve waited with bated breath for 12 months (and a bit), but the moment of reckoning is finally here. Voted on by the one and only Brotherhood of ‘The Metal Observer,’ feast your eyes upon the top 20 albums of 2014!
Procreating the Wicked: The Year’s Best in Slime
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Procreating the Wicked; the year’s best in slime, grime and filth. Here is where the year’s filthiest and foulest examples of old goat metal can be found. The best of the best in those amalgamous forms of metal including bits of black, death, thrash, heavy, speed and whatever other […]
The Progressive and Aggressive Approach: An Interview with Mindwars’ Mike Alvord
A TMO Interview With Ningen-Isu
Dubbed by their countrymen “the Japanese Black Sabbath”, Ningen-Isu has been active in their homeland since forming in 1987. Despite the band beginning to gain worldwide acclaim, their name is still not commonly known among metalheads outside of Japan. The Metal Observer was recently granted the opportunity to interview these Japanese legends on the heels […]
Persian Metal – Part 1
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ― Salman Rushdie
RETRO SPOTLIGHT: Helmet – Meantime
The Million Dollar Grunge Album That Never Was
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Tons Of Rock 2014, Day 2 (Halden, Norway)
Tons Of Rock Day 2, June 20th 2014
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Tons Of Rock 2014, Day 1 (Halden, Norway)
Tons Of Rock Day 1, June 19th 2014
SHOW REPORT: Shining (NOR), In Solitude & Nekromantheon (Oslo, Norway)
Live at Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway on March 28th 2014
