Tag Archives: huntsmen
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Max Heilman’s 60 best metal albums of 2020: 20-11
The 60 best metal albums of 2020 include (clockwise from top left): Code Orange, Napalm Death, Garganjua, Pallbearer, Xibalba, Imperial Triumphant, Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin, Methwitch, Anaal Nathrakh and Huntsmen. We’re close to the last circle of hell, so I suppose Code Orange applies in more way than…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Huntsmen’s Americana metal turns sci-fi Western on ‘Mandala of Fear’
The term “Americana Metal” might seem outlandish, but Chicago’s Huntsmen find the middle ground between alt-country and stoner rock through the two genres’ common ground in storytelling. On this 85-minute double album, the band pushes itself as musicians and narrators. Driven by a musical conflation of prog, sludge and stoner…