Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Beck’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
One day I’ll visit Finland. This crazy arctic land produces some of the finest Black and Death Metal that the Metal community feeds on daily. Impaled Nazarene, Behexen, Sargeist, and Satanic Warmaster are four of my favorite bands from there, but my top favorite is undoubtedly Horna; this strange, evolving demon that has existed since […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Horna, Jeremy Beck, Review, W.T.C Productions
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Monday, October 7th, 2024
1349 is the year that the Black Death swept through Norway. It’s only fitting that a Black Metal band would eventually take such a brutal portion of time and name their band after it. 1349 came out of the ashes of Alvheim in 1997 with Ravn (vocals, drums), Tjalve (guitars), Seidemann (bass), and Balfori (guitars). […]
Tags: 1349, 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, October 4th, 2024
Flotsam and Jetsam https://www.flotstildeath.com/ I’ve waxed nostalgic about the 80s many times. I enjoy being able to watch or listen to something from the decade and say “I remember when that happened” like that time when Flotsam and Jetsam‘s original bassist Jason Newstead joined Metallica. I remember when that happened… Anyway, if you know that […]
Tags: 2024, AFM Records, Flotsam and Jetsam, Jeremy Beck, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, September 30th, 2024
“Before the tragedy, no one ever thought this band was going to exist without Trevor.” When Trevor Strnad passed away the world of Metal was shaken to the core. That above quote from TBDM co-founder Brian Eschbach is taken from the press release and it’s a heartbreaking statement. Trevor had such a huge presence, both […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Review, The Black Dahlia Murder
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, September 27th, 2024
Black Metal is a finicky genre. It goes through shifts and changes that keep it moving forward and there’s enough bands both established and brand new that it’s creative integrity and spiritual voice of the 90s continues to infect the new blood. El Jefe forwarded the new Hammerfilosofi EP SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) to […]
Tags: 2024, ATMF, Black Metal, Hammerfilosofi, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
When was the last time an album hit you with such emotion that you felt like it was casually going to rip your heart out and leave you with a gaping hole where your emotions used to live? I have a list of bands that have created music like that, and those are the ones […]
Tags: 2024, Avantgarde Music, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Sur Austru
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Friday, September 20th, 2024
I’m from Kentucky, the heart of Bluegrass and Country music, sort of… I think Nashville would disagree and probably Oklahoma, Kansas and any other state that cuddles up next to the southern states would as well. But to say I grew up around Country Music is an understatement, for years I was immersed in it. […]
Tags: 2024, Crucial Blast Records, Death Metal, Grand Vomit Productions, Jeremy Beck, Review, VHS
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
There’s been some watercooler conversation about Darkthrone lately at the home office; specifically the difference between new and old and the new bands that pay homage to the early 90s era. I got a couple of recommendations and this is the first review for the newer-than-new debut for Avmakt and it’s called Satanic Inversion Of… […]
Tags: 2024, Avmakt, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, September 13th, 2024
Power Metal has been part of my life since Helloween and their Keeper of the Seven Keys albums. A long time, considering that that first album was ’85-’86 I think. Manowar was around then, wearing animal skins and looking absolutely ridiculous. I confused (and wrongly assumed) that Hammerfall were Manowar clones. It might’ve been the […]
Tags: 2024, Hammerfall, Jeremy Beck, Nuclear Blast Records, Power Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, September 5th, 2024
Spain’s Totengott returns with their third album, Beyond the Veil, and first for Hammerheart Records. I have enjoyed their prior two albums, Doppelgänger and The Abyss quite a lot. The band originally started as a Celtic Frost cover band and their primary influence falls in line with the monstrous Monotheist reformation album as well as […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Black/Doom Metal, Hammerheart Records, Jeremy Beck, Review, Totengott
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, August 30th, 2024
I love French Black Metal, and that goes back to the early 2000s when I first heard Mutiilation, Anorexia Nervosa, Deathspell Omega and Osculum Infame. From the press release: Gravenoire was formed in early 2022 by Maximilien Brigliadori (BÂ’A, Diablation, former Hyrgal), Emmanuel Zuccaro (BÂ’A, Verfallen, former Hyrgal), Vicomte Vampyr Arkames (Diablation (former Seth / […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Gravenoire, Jeremy Beck, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
I’ve loved Dark Ambient Music or ‘Dungeon synth’ music since the first time I heard Mortiis’ Født til å herske, but even before his music, I loved Midnight Syndicate. They were a Halloween and night drive staple, as well as Thou Shalt Suffer‘s Somnium; yes I’m bouncing around years, no I don’t care. I really […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric/Ambient, Jeremy Beck, Relapse Records, Review, Shadow Knell
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, August 15th, 2024
Ours is a country in turmoil. We are divided as never before in our history, trust in the government is at an all-time low and naturally, the conspiracy theories are whizzing by like… bullets that don’t necessarily hit their marks. But lurking below the heat-baked streets are the CrusHumans, bent on destroying everything in their […]
Tags: 2024, CrusHuman, Grindcore, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
I’ve been in a weird mood lately, things haven’t been catching my ear, which can be attested to the mountain of material that I could write about. But I got this promo the other day and I can’t stop listening to it, going on three days it’s been in rotation already. The ‘this’ that I’m […]
Tags: 2024, Aussichtslos, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Purity Through Fire, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
I saw Amorphis on tour for this album in 1994 or 1995, not too sure, but I saw them at a shitty little club in southeast Albuquerque with Entombed and got to meet one of the guitarists (I’m really straining my long-term memory here.) It was, despite the location, an incredible show. When I think […]
Tags: 2024, Amorphis, Jeremy Beck, Melodic Death Metal, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 26th, 2024
It’s been a few weeks since my deep dive into Helloween’s back catalog and then the killer album from MadHatter showed up, and now I’m going deeper into the Power Metal void with Shadows of Steel and their searing fourth full-length Twilight II. This is a ass-kicker, fast when it needs to be and harmonious […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Metallic Blue Records, Power Metal, Review, Shadows of Steel
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
I’ve had a few moments where I look at the speakers and ask myself ‘what the fuck am I listening to?’ Of course I already know obviously but in terms of the sounds coming into my ears, it’s a process to process and then decide if I like it enough to stick around. Which brings […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, I Voidhanger Records, Jeremy Beck, Review, Todesstoss
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, July 19th, 2024
The years between 1930 and 1947 are incredibly monumental years for a number of reasons. WWII was a pivotal time in world history, and the rise of fascism was the impetus for the United States to get involved (among other things.) Within Black Metal there lies a hole where politics turn blood red in […]
Tags: 2024, ATMF, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kommandant, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
So A while ago, I was having a crazy day and gardening was the main task at hand, but it was made all the better because El Jefe had sent me this promo and I was pretty anxious because of the “Black Metal meets Hawkwind” description in the press blurb. The promo went straight to […]
Tags: 2024, Aklash, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
Sometimes I find myself needing a break from Death Metal, Black Metal, and those related sub-genres and I look for something heavy, but different. So the other day I went down a Helloween rabbit hole, Keeper of the Seven Keys 1&2, Walls of Jericho; those are two prime examples of precision German Power Metal, while […]
Tags: 2024, Art Gates Records, Jeremy Beck, Mad Hatter, Power Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, July 5th, 2024
What do you get when you cross mid-90s Black Metal ie: Dark Funeral, The Abyss, Necrophobic and Dissection with Helloween, and Metallica? The kind of vibe that Bloodcross is laying down on Gravebound. These unholy Finns are firing on all thrusters with this debut full-length. After releasing the Abysmal Blood Demo in 2021, they (presumably) […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Bloodcross, Jeremy Beck, Personal Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Technical Death Metal is one of those sub-genres I must be in the mood for. The same goes for Power Metal, but I’m talking about Replacire and not Sonata Artica; the former being the Eric Alper driven death machine that I had no idea existed and the latter being one of the best Power Metal […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Replacire, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Death. War. Pestilence. Famine. A dying planet gasping for breath as it is gripped in the throes of Armageddon. Legions of demons sweep across the land, killing all in sight with reckless abandon. As the skies fall and the moon becomes black as sackcloth, it is out of this malignant hatred that Downcross was formed […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Cavum Atrum Rex, Downcross, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
1990; Fuck I’m old. In Death Metal history, however, it’s like I’m still in my twenties and it was DEATH METAL. Bands were releasing albums left and right, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel; the Earache label alone was like a goddamn factory with its roster of bands. Not to be left out were these dudes from […]
Tags: 2024, Darkness Shall Rise Productions, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Unleashed
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Finland. When I think of Finland I tend to think of the recent film Sisu. It’s about this gold miner who finds the mother load in a vein of gold. Long story short, some Nazis are killed in fantastically thrilling ways. While I was listening to this debut album from Kratti Matka Kohti Kosmista, I […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kratti, Review, Signal Rex