This delightfully bleak EP was released late last year, but flew under the radar. For those who don’t know, Attest is a side project of Abated Mass of Flesh member Zach Plunkett, and was released on his own Caustic Hymn Productions. Stylistically here we have a fusion of raw, bleak black metal with some atmospheric/blackgaze elements. This is really interesting stuff. It’s mid-paced to slower for black metal, but sorrowful and bleak as just about anything out there. It mi

Stryper: Even The Devil Believes (The second in a series of reviews that Heaven's Metal likes to do to offer more critical voices when possible.) Acknowledging Jesus's confirmed existence, death, and resurrection through even secular sources doesn't prevent people from playing amazing metal. In 1986 Stryper proved it with the double-platinum, MTV shaking "To Hell With The Devil". The problem was, could they ever match their Earth shattering album that paved the way for bands

STRYPER FANS REJOICE! The new Stryper albums dropped today, I'm sure everyone has their copy by now, right? RIGHT?! It is a great one for sure. In case you missed the review Doug did a few days ago, see the link below in related article section. But before you go there, let's here the exchange I had this morning with Michael on this new album and other related issues. He discusses the recording of this album, some song details, plus some very soon, related projects that I kno

We caught up with 316 frontman Michael Lenhart via Facebook Messenger. Michael recently left a longtime position as a worship pastor in Oxnard, California, to serve as chaplain and brand outreach manager to Kanye’s Sunday Service. What’s up with 316? I grew up in West Columbia, South Carolina, and attended Northside Baptist Church. 316 was a Christian metal band I started in high school with some guys from my youth group. I had been in a couple of bands before, but nothing