Posts Tagged ‘Century Media Records’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, May 29th, 2023
I reviewed the debut album, Crypt of Ice, in 2021, from newcomers Frozen Soul. I really enjoyed their previous demo material and the debut album furthered their sound in terms of musical ability and the songs fleshed out more. The comparisons to old-school bands like Obituary and mainly Bolt Thrower were some of the reasons […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Frozen Soul, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
Certain things will always bring me back to my adolescence, like every time I see a 90s Dodge Caravan (my first car), eating a chicken cutlet wedge (that was just a thing where I grew up, I dunno), seeing someone wear a studded belt, or gods help me, if I ever have a chance to […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Metalcore, Review, Steve K, Unearth
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, May 11th, 2023
I am endlessly picked on in the Teeth of the Divine break room for admitting in a vulnerable moment that thrash is perhaps my least favorite metal sub-genre. So, one might ask why the hell I am reviewing the new Enforced album. Firstly, mind your business. Secondly, I was able to procure it in the […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Enforced, J Mays, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, March 27th, 2023
One could argue, that along with Distant’s Heritage, To the Grave‘s Director’s Cuts, Chelsea Grin‘s double album, and Suicide Silence’s newest, the debut from Ov Sulfur is up there as one of 2023’s early high-profile deathcore releases. Featuring former Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover (who has beefed up considerably in the 9 years since his Suffokate […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Erik T, Ov Sulfur, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 20th, 2023
There is only 1 Suicide Silence album I do not have in my collection and if you guessed it was their self-titled affair from 2017 you would be correct. I am not a fan of that album or the musical direction they went in. I was especially disappointed in it after they released the great […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Frank Rini, Review, Suicide Silence
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 27th, 2023
If you get naked, cry, and sacrifice babies at the altar of death doom, you probably like Insomnium. So, I guess the GOP can start looking for pedophiles at their shows (or in their mirrors). I’m only here to help. I’m no fanboy, but I do enjoy their output, particularly my favorite of theirs, One […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Insomnium, J Mays, Melodic Death/Doom, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, February 20th, 2023
The Netherlands’ Distant has the unenviable task of now being on the same label as Lorna Shore after a stint on Unique Leader. And then, as one of the first, larger profile deathcore bands to release an album in 2023, after Lorna Shore‘s Pain Remains changed the game for deathcore (labelmates Ov Sulfur look to […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Distant, Downtempo, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Two years ago, I reviewed Sanguisugabogg’s Tortured Whole debut album and previous to that I reviewed their Pornographic Seizures EP. With their debut album, I said “Sanguisugabogg’s blow-up throughout the underground metal scene is really only just the beginning”. And that is precisely what happened with the band right after the release of the debut. […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Sanguisugabogg
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
If you’re like me, and for your sake I hope not, you’ve been looking forward to a follow up to The Offering’s stunning 2019 debut Home. Its mix of power, trad, and metalcore would have placed well on my AOTY list, but I wasn’t writing for the site yet. It was thoroughly enjoyable and remains. […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, J Mays, Metalcore, The Offering
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, October 10th, 2022
Have a seat, and grab a snack. This is gonna be a long one. Way back in 2015 I reviewed a pretty nondescript EP, Maleficium, from this New Jersey band called Lorna Shore. It was Ok, odd band name, and a few keyboards, but nothing really stood out. The same can be said for the […]
Tags: 2022, Blackened Deathcore, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Erik T, Lorna Shore, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Thursday, September 1st, 2022
I think someone at Century Media follows the underground and most relevant to my point the American death metal scene, very closely. They have poached from the awesome small California label, Maggot Stomp with Sanguisugabogg, Frozen Soul and now Connecticut’s Vomit Forth. The ‘Bogg and Frozen Soul are experiencing massive success with their albums, videos […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Vomit Forth
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, August 1st, 2022
What do you call Witchery at this point in their career? A super group? A collective, ever-evolving side project (aside from guitarists Patrick Jensen and Rickard Rimfalt, the last two remaining original members)? What was once basically a catch-all side gig for former members of Seance along with legendary bassist Sharlee D’Angelo (Mercyful Fate, Arch […]
Tags: 2022, Black Metal, Blackened Thrash, Century Media Records, Nightside, Speed Metal, Steve K, thrash metal, Witchery
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
I’ve reviewed the last several releases from Misery Index and knowing singer/bassist Jason Netherton all these years from my Internal Bleeding time and his stint in Dying Fetus- well those were some legendary shows folks. Time flies and Complete Control is the bands seventh full length album. If you were expecting anything less than their […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Misery Index, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Canada’s favorite metal weirdos, Voivod, and one of the elite in all of extreme metal, return with their 15th proper studio album, Synchro Anarchy. Their last 2 return to form albums Target Earth and The Wake have been nothing short of exceptional. In support of the 2013 Target Earth album I saw them live on […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, Industrial Death Metal, Review, Voivod
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, January 24th, 2022
I’m pretty new to Wilderun’s form of symphonic classical, folk, and progressive, heavy metal/death metal smash-up, with the reissue of 2019s Veil of Imagination being my first exposure to the band to which I then picked up their more folk-tinged prior records. I described the band as a mix of Opeth, Dream Theater and Blind […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, Erik T, Melodic/Progressive Death Metal, Review, Symphonic Metal, Wilderun
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
I honestly don’t know how they keep doing it. Seriously, Belgium’s Aborted has been on a consistent roll for damn near a solid decade now. The band, having just released their eleventh full-length album entitled Maniacult, are once again steamrolling over the scene and their peers with a fantastic display of seething viciousness that nary […]
Tags: 2021, Aborted, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, August 27th, 2021
New Jersey’s Lorna Shore has come a long way since I reviewed their 2013 EP, Maleficum, a decent but standard deathcore release that had a few symphonic elements here and there. But through 2015s Psalms and 2017s Flesh Coffin, they gradually added more epic, symphonic elements, but they really didn’t register as something special at […]
Tags: 2021, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Lorna Shore, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, July 12th, 2021
GO! Now that I have that totally necessary exclamation out of the way, let’s talk about At The Gates’ new album, The Nightmare of Being. A title I totally feel right now, guys… but this isn’t about me, although I’ll probably inadvertently do my damnedest to make it. On full length #7, and the third […]
Tags: 2021, At The Gates, Century Media Records, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
California’s Skeletal Remains burst onto the scene extremely quickly with a debut album in 2012, one year removed after releasing a demo that same year. So for about 10 years they have remained one of my favorite death metal bands and all their releases are of high quality. I feel their fourth album, released last […]
Tags: 2021, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Skeletal Remains
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 29th, 2021
In 2019 I reviewed and raved about the Sanguisugabogg ep Pornographic Seizures. That was my favorite ep for that year and since then the band has seen quite a rise in their popularity. An ep of a mere 11 minutes, saw the band go on a bunch of mini tours throughout the country with a […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Sanguisugabogg, Slam
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, March 22nd, 2021
This Danish death metal band’s second effort, Venenum was a little over-hyped for me, as they seemed to be 2019s death metal darlings in the eyes of the media, press, spotify (seemed like it was every daily mix and playlist), and fans. But I thought it was merely OK, as it barely registered in the […]
Tags: 2021, Baest, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Erik T, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Hailing from Texas Frozen Soul came pretty much out of nowhere and got signed to Century Media Records and their new label got their name out with some fabulous promotion and album videos. The band was previously singed on the awesome Maggot Stomp Records and I really enjoyed their 2019 ep – Encased in Ice. […]
Tags: 2021, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Frozen Soul, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, February 1st, 2021
Death metal legends Asphyx are now four albums into their reunion, with Necroceros being the fourth since 2009s Death…The Brutal Way, one of the more successful reunions of recent memory. Now, like many reunions from yore, this isn’t the original line up with Martin Van Drunen being the sole original member and guitarist Paul Baayens […]
Tags: Century Media Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › T on Monday, January 25th, 2021
When it comes to Tribulation, you already know where you stand. I’m sure this will be in a certain print publication’s top albums of the year, whether or not it is deserving. For me, their peak was their debut album, The Horror. Yeah, I’m going to be that guy. So, that brings us to their […]
Tags: 2021, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Gothic, J Mays, Review, Tribulation
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › N on Monday, October 5th, 2020
Napalm Death, the greatest grindcore band ever, have just dropped their 16th album, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism. I have followed ND since Scum in 1987 blew my mind apart. I remember getting the LP and inside had an order form for Napalm Death shirts. I had to have my father get […]
Tags: 2020, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Grindcore, Napalm Death, Review