Posts Tagged ‘Century Media Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, November 30th, 2015
Let’s be brutally honest shall we? Sure Grave’s first three albums are certified classics, and while there’s some division over Hating Life, I’m willing to say that other the overall excitement of the band’s reunion in 2002, the post Jorgen, post “Back From the Grave” glow might have worn off . And other than 2012s Endless […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Grave, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, September 24th, 2015
Krisiun, always the bridesmaid, never the bride…that’s too bad really, because the truth of the matter is that this trio of brothers can put out some terrifically fast, tight, and brutal material that, when done right, can clearly out shine many of the top tier death metal bands that Krisiun often get overlooked for. Most […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Krisiun, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, September 4th, 2015
Falsifier and Born Hanged, the first two EPs from this UK downtempo/deathcore act have become the Sermon of Mockery among deathcore fans, being the holy grail of deathcore collectors and reaching stupid prices. So Black Tongue have parlayed that and their prior Infant Annihilator infamy (whose releases also go for high prices) into a deal with […]
Tags: 2015, Black Tongue, Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, July 24th, 2015
I was so stoked when Morgoth reformed several years ago and even more stoked when the band announced they would write a new record. I was a fan since their ep’s in the late 80’s. I saw them live on their mini east coast tour, for The Eternal Fall ep and the band tore the […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Morgoth, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, July 13th, 2015
This reissue was impossible to find in the U.S. For imports, as usual, I had to go and get it from a European distro and paid over $20 for it. But it was worth it since Odium is my favorite Morgoth album. In 1993 Odium was released and polarized a lot of Morgoth’s fan base […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Morgoth, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Okay this album is definitely going to be a grower, but that’s not a bad thing mind you, it’s just at times expectations can be a mindf**k. You anticipate, you dream and dwell on that one moment of what you envision or what you dream about forever ( in this case Sanctuary reforming ) and […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Review, Sanctuary, Will 'Bones' Lee
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, June 8th, 2015
2015 brings the return of England’s Paradise Lost for their 27th year in existence. It also brings fourth their 14th full length album. In this day and age, it is amazing to have a band with this kind of longevity and productivity. Add to that the fact that the lineup is original except for the drummer, […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Myk R, Paradise Lost, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Monday, May 18th, 2015
I’m not usually one to get to reeled in by hype. Even more so for Sweden’s Tribulation, who left me unimpressed in 2009 with a pretty standard Swedish death metal release, The Horror, then their death metal got all proggy and developed with the rather hyped The Formulas of Death, a transition that really didn’t […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Review, Tribulation
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Thanatos formed in 1984, under the watchful eye of a youthful Stephan Gebédi, in the Netherlands. So essentially one could make the argument that he is responsible for starting the death/thrash movement in that part of the world. Without going into too much history I’ll just say Century Media, from 2013-2014 re-issued and remastered all […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Review, Thanatos
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
In 1998 the Dutch death/doom outfit known as Asphyx disbanded for a short period of time and put out an album under the new name of Soulburn, with a crushing album – Feeding on Angels. Wannes Gubbles on bass/vocals, Eric Daniels providing the ultra heavy guitar crunch and Bob Bagchus rounding out the punishing drums. […]
Tags: 2015, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Review, Soulburn
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, November 10th, 2014
If you asked me prior to their releases which of the metal juggernaut albums of recent years had the greatest potential for failure, I would have probably went with the new At The Gates record. Despite many delays, we knew Gorguts would deliver a unique, organic experience, and while Carcass had a spotty past of […]
Tags: 2014, At The Gates, Century Media Records, Jerry Hauppa, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, September 1st, 2014
So in summation: band forms, band does a couple of demos under Nihilist moniker, band changes name to Entombed, then releases two certifiably classic albums (Left Hand Path, Clandestine). Then release a third divisive album, Wolverine Blues (which has actually grown on me in my older, wiser years). Then things get a bit odd with a […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, Entombed, Entombed A.D, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
These days, talk about Nachtmystium is inseparable from talk about the group’s main man, Blake Judd. I have never been much of a follower of the people behind the music I listen to, for the reason that I am almost always disappointed to hear about what fucked up things they’re doing in their lives. I’ve […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, J.D. Anderson, Nachtmystium, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, June 16th, 2014
Uk supergroup Vallenfyre caused a minor ripple in the metal scene back in 2011 with their debut, A Fragile King, a pretty solid doom death outfit with nods to the bands primary members Gregor Mackintosh of Paradise Lost and Hamish Glencross of My Dying Bride and drummer Daniel Erlandsson. It was a solid effort but not great, especially considering the […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Review, Vallenfyre
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, June 5th, 2014
It’s been over twenty years since Massacre released their ground breaking album From Beyond, and just over that time period since Promise, which many of us would rather not even remember as part of their catalog. But here, I can safely say that Back From Beyond is NOT Promise, it is in fact a lesson […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, Jeremy Beck, Massacre, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, June 2nd, 2014
After years without a full-length release, NOLA’s most famous sludge sons Eyehategod are back with a new, self-titled full-length, and it’s as if they’ve never been away. You would have thought that these miscreants from New Orleans might have mellowed with age (even just slightly), but they still sound as pissed off as ever. Much […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, Eyehategod, Jack Taylor, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, May 19th, 2014
If you were to introduce someone to extreme metal, and they hadn’t heard the genre or weren’t previously a fan, you could do little better than to throw on the new Aborted album. It’s all that is right and enjoyable about the metal genre, and on their 8th full length album these Belgians show absolutely […]
Tags: 2014, Aborted, Century Media Records, Kevin E, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
As I detailed in my review of 2011s One for Sorrow, Finland’s Insomnium have become a predictable but brilliant stalwart of melancholic melodic death metal, a gradual, subtle shift from their more doomy beginnings. They have their sound and they know how to wield it perfectly, even at the expense of progression or growth, instead […]
Tags: Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Insomnium, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Monday, April 28th, 2014
Angelic Encounters 8 long years had passed since the second album, Realm of Ecstasy, was released from Thanatos and I had eagerly anticipated Angelic Encounters, but was let down by the production and this had nothing to do with the songs, as they are some of the best the band had ever done. Armed with […]
Tags: Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Review, Thanatos
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Without going into an entire back story of Thomas (Warrior) Gabriel Fischer’s musical back story, I will save that for my forthcoming interview with him, it is undeniable the impact he has had on the metal community. The Celtic Frost reformation album from 2006, Monotheist, is one of my all time favorite extreme metal albums […]
Tags: 2014, Century Media Records, Frank Rini, Review, Triptykon
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
In music, there are said to be innovators and consummators. Consummators perfect pre-existing forms; innovators pave the way for new movements. However, to draw the line that distinctly is misleading; innovators always build upon previous forms. They never innovate from scratch. Beethoven, one of the most important innovators in music, first went through an entirely […]
Tags: 2013, Century Media Records, J.D. Anderson, Review, Vattnet Viskar
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
Mr. Dan Swanö, the renowned Swedish vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/producer (Edge Of Sanity, Nightingale, Moontower and Bloodbath, among many others) has been rather quiet for some time. Recently, it was revealed he had been working on a new collaboration with the rather unknown fellow Swede and multi-instrumentalist Ragnar Widerberg after they worked together in a Swedish music store. […]
Tags: 2013, Century Media Records, Chris Gibbs, Review, Witherscape
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, September 23rd, 2013
The reaction to The Wild Hunt, the latest full-length release from Swedish black metal veterans Watain can be summed up in one word: this will be interesting. Without question, the old school/hardcore/lifelong Watain fans will largely cry out in anger that their beloved Anti-Cosmic Luciferianism heroes have sold out, never to return. The other faction, […]
Tags: 2013, Century Media Records, Mike Sloan, Review, Watain
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
As great as metal music is – the greatest of all music on the planet, of course – most of the bands who sport some sort of image are, in all actuality, a bunch of fake posers. Seriously, they are. We’ve all seen it millions of times: a band represents something only to find out […]
Tags: 2013, Century Media Records, Mike Sloan, Orphaned Land, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Necrowretch leader/vocalist/guitarist Vlad apparently is obsessed with the legendary Scream Bloody Gore and said that one day he wants to create his own version of Death’s all-time classic debut album. Not that he wants to record a cover album, but an album so vicious, so gripping the way SBG was for so many people throughout […]
Tags: 2013, Century Media Records, Mike Sloan, Necrowretch, Review