Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

For diehard fans of a veteran band, there are few things more demoralizing than when the classic lineup gets fractured, due to in-fighting or other circumstances, leading to two (or more) versions of ...

There is a certain caveman brutality inherent in a branch of death metal that makes otherwise sensible people lose their minds whenever they hear it. That type of mindless, visceral reaction, which is ...