Posts Tagged ‘Kristofor Allred’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Color me impressed. Finnish death metal troupe Enragement and their third full-length album, Atrocities, came totally out of left field and left me battered, bruised, bleeding, and ultimately begging for more. Seriously friends, this is some wonderful death metal that really does capture the majority of how the band themselves describe their sound and approach, […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Enragement, Kristofor Allred, Review, Rising Nemesis Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
I’m a longwinded guy, there’s no doubt about it, but when it comes to Celestial Extinction, the debut full-length from Australia’s Cryptivore, there is simply no beating around the bush; this album kicks ass, plain and simple. This one-man band from multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Chris Anning, sounds like anything but, having a full band intensity […]
Tags: 2022, Awakening Records, Bitter Loss Records, Cryptivore, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, March 25th, 2022
Even though 1976′ s The Bad News Bears taught me not to assume things, I’m gonna…I am straight up assuming that everyone here is a fan of brutal death metal, at least in some smattering or inkling, be it small or large. I’m assuming that we can all get down to Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Horde Casket, Kristofor Allred, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, January 14th, 2022
Back before the internet, we metalheads used to rely on a few different methods in hearing and procuring our aural fix. One of these was the blind purchase. Sometimes the payoff was immeasurably fantastic. Sometimes the gamble was nothing less than horrific. Most of the time though, the results tended to fall somewhere in that […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Maggot Stomp, Review, Sarcoughagus
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, December 24th, 2021
When my metal comrade, multi-instrumentalist from Seeking Obscure and owner/founder of Metalbolic Records, Rob Luckie, recently got in touch with me to see if I would be interested in checking out Samarian and their four track EP, Awaken, released on Metalbolic with Rob contributing his bass talents, I tented my fingers with pure Mr. Burns […]
Tags: Heavy Metal, Kristofor Allred, Metalbolic Records, Power/Progressive Metal, Samarian
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
I have to hand it to Pathology, after fifteen years of existence the band comes sneaking in here at the end of 2021 with what may just be their best album yet, their eleventh full-length album(???), The Everlasting Plague. Througout the band’s career their consistency can hardly be rivaled. Every album has arguably been a […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Nuclear Blast Records, Pathology, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, November 1st, 2021
You know the saying, right? “Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one”. Well, I guess that would be damn near doubly true when it comes to reviewing/critiquing. All I know is that when this asshole saw the new Massacre album, Resurgence, was up for review I jumped at the chance to cover it. It’s not […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Massacre, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, October 28th, 2021
There are quite a few things I wish I could go back and change about last year. I’m sure most of us feel the same way considering what a shitball year it was, and still continues to be in a lot of ways. Though one of the simplest things I would change would be regulating […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Progressive Metal, Enslaved, Kristofor Allred, Nuclear Blast Records
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 › F on Thursday, September 16th, 2021
I know what you’re thinking, “Why the hell is Flotsam and Jetsam‘s latest full-length, Blood in the Water, being reviewed now, months after the album’s release in June”? Well, I can give you two reasons for this. First, and this is the most important reason, Blood in the Water is 100% THE SHIT. This album […]
Tags: 2021, AFM Records, Flotsam and Jetsam, Kristofor Allred, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, September 10th, 2021
Well I’ll be damned, as far as this Texas boy is concerned, Brooklyn, New York’s melodic death metal troupe, Winter Nights, just released about as perfect of an EP as you can get, I tell you what. Sky Burial is four tracks, eighteen minutes and fifty-one seconds, and some of the best melodic death metal […]
Tags: 2021, Kristofor Allred, Melodic Death Metal, Self-Released, Winter Nights
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, August 13th, 2021
EP releases are a funny thing. There used to be a time when they weren’t really a big deal so-to-speak. Sure, occasionally a band would release something of some serious musical value i.e. Haunting the Chapel, Morbid Tales, Sentence of Death, In the Sign of Evil, Despise the Sun, as well as others, but for […]
Tags: 2021, Gwar, Kristofor Allred, Metal, Pit Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, July 1st, 2021
Well, if this isn’t a pleasant surprise, then I don’t know what one is. I’m not quite sure how I missed and/or forgot about any hype surrounding the release of Inhuman Condition‘s debut album Rat°God. I mean hell, the band literally released four singles from said debut and I never heard one of them until […]
Tags: 2021, Death/Thrash Metal, Kristofor Allred, Listenable Insanity Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, June 25th, 2021
Maybe it’s just me. I mean I was listening to a lot of old German thrash, the usual culprits, Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction, at the time of my reviewing Aggravator‘s new EP, Unseen Repulsions, but I’ll be damned if I don’t hear a marked increase of Teutonic influence in Aggravator‘s sound of late. When I […]
Tags: 2021, Aggravator, Empire Records, Kristofor Allred, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, June 17th, 2021
It’s strange, the little quirks and idiosyncrasies that pull our thoughts and attention toward one thing or another. Case in point, this very review. I straight up only chose this album for review because of the band’s name; Necronemesis. For whatever the reason I have always had an affinity for the word nemesis, a certain […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Kristofor Allred, Necronemesis, Old School
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, May 20th, 2021
“Impressive…most impressive.” These words from the dark Sith lord himself, Darth Vader, are what rang through my mind upon my initial experience with Bloodtide Rising, the sophomore full-length album from North Carolina’s Xael…okay, I’m full of shit. What I really thought was, “Fuck me, this is some kick ass shit!” And it is. I mean […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Pavement Entertainment, Symphonic Metal, Xael
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
I was a bit surprised to find that Spain’s Mistweaver were releasing a new album this year, mainly due to the fact that the band called it quits back in 2017. Unfortunately for us, Swansong, the band’s sixth and ultimately final album is exactly that, a swansong for the group, that founder/guitarist/vocalist Raúl Weaver saw […]
Tags: 2021, Kristofor Allred, Melodic Death Metal, Mistweaver, Necromance Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Okay lets face it, 2020 was…emotional…If I had to pick one word other than “fucked” to describe last year, I ‘d probably have to go with “warped”. For the few good things and the plethora of bad, I can without hesitation claim that the majority of 2020 was indeed a warped fucking year. And that’s […]
Tags: 2020, Gwar, Kristofor Allred, Review, Slave Pit Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, February 11th, 2021
The craziness of 2020 just kept rolling in. Did it not? Hell, everytime I thought I was about to get somewhat caught up in my “real” job and life, another curve ball of some shape or form got thrown my direction, ultimately taking time away from one thing to give to another. Nine times out […]
Tags: 2020, Black Metal, Black/Progressive Metal, Brotthogg, Kristofor Allred, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
I was pretty damn stoked upon hearing that France’s Skelethal were releasing a new full-length album this year. I reviewed and thoroughly enjoyed their debut album, Of the Depths…. The duo of Gui Haunting (guitar, vocals) and Jon Whiplash (bass, drums) crafted some terrific burly, bludgeoning old-school Swedeath, paying obvious and massive homage to Carnage/Dismember, […]
Tags: Death Metal, Hells Headbangers, Kristofor Allred, Review, Skelethal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Wow! Has it really been five years since Sweden’s Draconian dropped a new album on us? Five years to the date as a matter of fact. Man, it really doesn’t seem like Sovran was released five years ago, then again this past year of 2020 has been quite the rollercoaster, seemingly lasting an eternity unto […]
Tags: 2020, Doom Metal, Draconian, Gothic, Kristofor Allred, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, October 23rd, 2020
First things first. I’m not sure what it is Melbourne, Austrailia’s Mr. Kill is trying to say with their moniker, but whatever it is I don’t think it works. To raise one’s self to the level of bonafide “Mr.” in the entertainment and capitalistic world is quite lofty. You just don’t rise overnight to the […]
Tags: 2020, Kristofor Allred, Mr. Kill, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, September 18th, 2020
You ever listened to death metal? You ever listened to death metal…on WEED? Okay, maybe you don’t get my hilarity there in playing off of the twenty dollar bill scene with Jon Stewart in 1998’s cult classic, Half Baked, but chances are you know exactly what I’m referencing, especially, if you’re one to have, or […]
Tags: Death Metal, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Inhalement, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
I’m not really sure how I missed the release of The Inhabitable Dark, the debut full-length album from Obscene, Indiana’s purveyors of acidic old-school death metal, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t do just that. In fact, it was actually my recent review of the 4 Doors to Death II split that made me […]
Tags: 2020, Blood Harvest, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Obscene, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Well for God’s sake…no that doesn’t seem right. For Satan’s sake? No, that just sounds stupid. For fuck’s sake? Yeah…that sums it up pretty good. Oh for fuck’s sake! After twenty-four years since the release of the band’s debut album, Divine Decomposition, Insatanity have returned with a “sort of” new full-length album of blackened brutal […]
Tags: 2020, CDN Records, Death Metal, Insatanity, Kristofor Allred, Review