Posts Tagged ‘E.Thomas’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, January 18th, 2008
After making some waves with their debut release from The Faceless, the second release from the label is a smartly similar release of forward thinking, synth laced, techy, progressive, death metal/deathcore. Throw in some Between The Buried and Me styled arpeggio flourishes, and you get a pretty solid, if all too short release. Clocking in […]
Tags: 2007, Born of Osiris, E.Thomas, Review, Sumerian Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, January 14th, 2008
Oklahoma’s The Agony Scene is in dire need of some therapy, because they have a considerable personality crisis. First, on their 2003 self titled debut, they unleashed a promising, Darkest Hour-ish, blackened form of Euro-death laced metalcore, then on 2005’s The Darkest Red, they went commercial metalcore with clean vocals and catchy choruses. So now, […]
Tags: 2007, Century Media Records, E.Thomas, Review, The Agony Scene
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, January 14th, 2008
“Lo-ruhamah is the name of the first daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer in the Book of Hosea. The name, which translates as “not pitied,” is chosen by God as a sign of displeasure with the people of Israel for following other gods” -From Wikipedia. Lo-Ruhamah also happens to be stunning Christian […]
Tags: 2007, Bombworks Records, E.Thomas, Lo-Ruhamah, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Every year there are a few releases that kill a genre for me. This year, Bless The Fallen’s Eclectic Sounds of a City Painted Black and White and Of The First Born’s self titled debut EP has killed melodic metalcore for me. Terrible, terrible cover, forced song writing and vocals and a plethora of utterly […]
Tags: 2008, E.Thomas, Of The First Born Son, Review, Year of the Sun Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, January 11th, 2008
To make it quick, if you like Tides, Pelican, The Autumn Project, Russian Circles, The Red Sparowes or any other instrumental, shimmery post rock outfits, just go ahead and grab the debut from Germany’s Long Distance Calling. An hour of artful, elegant instrumental music on par with the course is what you will get from […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Long Distance Calling, Review, Viva Hate Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Friday, January 11th, 2008
From the underrated German black metal scene and rising Van label comes a ritualistic, ambient black metal outfit consisting of two members of the far more primal outfit, Graupel. With a tangible influence of The Ruins of Beverast in the plodding, moody tones and to these ears, a hint of Summoning in the deliberate percussion, […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Review, Van Records, Verdunkeln
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
I don’t mean for this review to turn into a rant about Crash Music, but holy hell do they just seem to sign bands that ride the coattails of whatever trend is in vogue at the time. Take Ashes of Your Enemy for example. It’s like Crash realized there is a thrash revival going on […]
Tags: 2008, Ashes Of Your Enemy, Crash Music Inc., E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
With the break up of I Killed t he Prom Queen, Parkway Drive become Australia’s most prominent metalcore act, and with their second full length album, Horizons, cement the fact musically. While the much maligned metalcore genre gets its share of hate, when performed at a top notch level, I find it thoroughly enjoyable and […]
Tags: 2008, E.Thomas, Epitaph Records, Parkway Drive, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Jesus Christ. I tried to like this, I really did. It’s sort of melodic, experimental metalcore with lots of progressive moments, solos, clean vocals and such, but ultimately when delivered with such shitty musicianship and production; it pretty much ruined melodic metalcore for me. With tangible influences like Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, Bewteen the Buried […]
Tags: 2008, Bless The Fallen, Crash Music Inc., E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, January 7th, 2008
With former members of Cavity, Acid King and -16- , Black Cobra return with album number two of grimy, rumbling, tumbling metal for fans of Torche, High on Fire, Hail!Hornet, Negative Reaction, Kylesa and such. So yeah, if Mastodon were girthier, nastier and far far sludgier, you might get close to Black Cobra’s sound, a […]
Tags: 2008, At A Loss Recordings, Black Cobra, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, January 7th, 2008
After officially declaring …And Oceans dead with the transitional ..And Oceans/Havoc Unit/Sin Decay split, here is official full length debut from Havoc Unit, the newer and nastier incarnation of …And Oceans. While most will more than likely remember the last two …And Oceans offerings, AMGOD and Cypher as water down techno laced black metal, it […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Havoc Unit, Review, Vendlus Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, January 4th, 2008
OK, so there is melodic black metal and then there is Norway’s veteran act Enslavement of Beauty, who with their third album, deliver an uber sugary sweet mix of Gothic synths and very polite, catchy black metal/melodic death metal. Think early Children of Bodom mixed with maybe the synth laced melodic death metal of Lothlorien […]
Tags: 2008, E.Thomas, Enslavement of Beauty, INRI Unlimited, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
So back in 1998, one of my many blind purchases back then was New Dark Age, by this Bradford, England classic doom act. Of course, at the time I was all about death metal and because of ‘England’ and ‘doom’ was fully expecting something akin to Paradise Lost, Anathema or My Dying Bride. Of course, […]
Tags: 2008, Cyclone Empire, E.Thomas, Review, Solstice
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
From the label that brought us arguably my favourite Stockholm Death metal album of the last few years (Evocation’s Tales From the Tomb)comes the debut from Sweden’s Demonical, and featuring basically most of the productive but now defunct Centinex line up (As well as current Grave drummer Ronnie Bergerståhl), there no secrets as to the […]
Tags: 2008, Cyclone Empire, Demonical, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, December 28th, 2007
The sound Irish metallers Primordial have developed over the last few albums is actually a lot like Ireland (namely Eire); it’s sweeping, rugged, majestic and also barren and beautiful at the same time. There’s also a sense of sadness and loneliness built into the fiber of both band and land. Nowhere is this more prevalent […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Metal Blade Records, Primordial, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, December 28th, 2007
As their album titles have become less wordy, Ohio noisemongers Harlots have become increasingly more experimental in their discordance. Though still steeped in technical, angular and caustic hardcore a la Ion Dissonance,Animosity, Engineer, Architect (and most of the Black Market Activities roster) and their ilk, Harlots have now successfully managed to weave in some moments […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Harlots, Lifeforce Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
While hardly a ground breaking release of thrashy, energetic ATG drenched metalcore, the debut from Arise and Ruin is a solid entry into the saturated genre and certainly is a lot better than some of Victory’s other recent/upcoming releases (Taking Back Sunday, Farewell to Freeway, Moros Eros, The Audition, etc). Canada’s Arise and Ruin are […]
Tags: 2007, Arise and Ruin, E.Thomas, Review, Victory Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
After a promising debut of caustic tech grind metal, Tennessee’s Nights Like These, much like similar sounding act Harlots, Khann and Yakuza, have injected a sense of droning, sludgy experimentation into their lumbering dissonance and while a decent effort, it’s not quite as good as the recent Harlots release. What you get is an album […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Nights Like These, Review, Victory Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
So here is the third and worst recent ‘metal’ release from Victory. A few years back I reviewed the promising Stillborn Records debut from this then metalcore act, but then with Embrace the Gutter, it was obvious the band wanted to be lumped in with All That Remains, Diecast, God Forbid and Lamb of God […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Review, The Autumn Offering, Victory Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, December 17th, 2007
Ok, so there is ambitious, and then there is Germany’s The Ocean Collective…. Now on a label that is letting them release a double album (FluXion and Aeolian was supposed to be a double album), The Ocean have delivered a 14 track, 2 disc, 83-minute concept album (complete with lavish accompanying separate CD booklets) “based […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Metal Blade Records, Review, The Ocean
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, December 14th, 2007
Comprised of the band’s 2005 EP of the same name and 2002’s What Completely is Not EP, both re-mastered for this re-release, the ‘debut’ album from LA’s Exhausted Prayer is a adventurous foray into genre mixing resulting in a solid, if over ambitious affair that shows tons of promise. With a big dash of Opeth, […]
Tags: 2007, Dwell Records, E.Thomas, Exhausted Prayer, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, December 14th, 2007
Moribund has been in a bit of a slump recently, having to dig up various obscure one man USBM metal projects and re-issue or release some pretty mediocre stuff, so when the oddly titled , Lovecraftian named Brown Jenkins came in my mail box I was a little leery. The brain child of now sole […]
Tags: 2007, Brown Jenkins, E.Thomas, Moribund Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Here’s a pleasant little surprise from Portugal’s long running Simbiose; classic Discharge, Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Driller Killer, Terrorizer and Righteous Pigs styled grindcore/crust with no frills, no pig vocals, no squawking chaos, no breakdowns, just earthy, punky power chords, grooves and a hint of catchiness. Granted, this is far from earth shattering, but it […]
Tags: 2007, E.Thomas, Major Label Industries, Review, Simbiose
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, December 13th, 2007
So after a string of utterly brilliant releases, Profound Lore seems to be on a bit of mini ‘whiff’ streak with Caina and this release, the new incarnation of former Thralldom/Unearthly Trance brainchild Killusion (Ryan Lipynsky). Less ambient and cosmic than Thralldom, The Howling Wind is a dirtier, thrashier, grimier set of songs, though a […]
Tags: 2008, E.Thomas, Profound Lore Records, Review, The Howling Wind
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, December 10th, 2007
Hailing from Hungary, Aetherius Obscuritas is a prolific (4 albums since 2004) one man black metal project that does a little more than the usual Burzum worshipping woe is me, moping in self despair act. Coming across as more like a full band (with the aid of a session drummer), main man Arkhorrl renders a […]
Tags: 2007, Aetherius Obscuritas, E.Thomas, Paragon Records, Review