Posts Tagged ‘Metal Blade Records’
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 › C on Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Category 7 is a brand new “super-group” which formed in 2023. This self-titled album is their debut and the band members are John Bush – Vocals, Mike Orlando – Guitars, Phil Demmel – Guitars, Jack Gibson – Bass, Jason Bittner – Drums. So we have these metal players who are currently in or were ex-members […]
Tags: 2024, Category 7, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
OK, hear me out… 2024 has been a friggin’ WILD ride for the world of metal and extreme music. Like it or not, the spotlight has perhaps never shone brighter on our little deranged corner of the music world than it is right now. Ignore for a moment legendary stalwarts like Metallica, Iron Maiden or […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Black Thrash, Demiser, Heavy Metal, Metal Blade Records, Slave to the Scythe, Speed Metal, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Monday, June 24th, 2024
Ohio continues to be one of the main hotbeds for quality American death metal bands. I am new to the 200 Stab Wounds bandwagon and it was 2022/2023 when the band came onto my radar. The label breeding ground for death metal bands getting signed to bigger labels is Maggot Stomp Records. 200 Stab Wounds […]
Tags: 200 Stab Wounds, 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
“You shake your ass but you’re already dead.” If you don’t know my reference, that’s okay and maybe this review isn’t for you. The truth is Daath hasn’t missed. They have a stellar discography and I’ve never been disappointed. So, their new one The Deceivers, their first in 14 years, was heavily anticipated. What matters […]
Tags: Dååth, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Modern Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 27th, 2024
I have thoroughly enjoyed New Jersey’s Cognitive rise through the underground ranks since their first EP in 2012 – The Horrid Swarm. I became friends with guitarist Rob Wharton, reviewed several of their early releases, finally met him on one of his tours years ago and he saw me touring with Internal Bleeding, as well […]
Tags: 2024, Cognitive, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
“It’s not the worst thing ever,” says the custodian as he scrapes all the dried cum from in and around the glory hole. I didn’t wish for him to elaborate, but by instinct, I said “Wouldn’t it be easier just to do it when it’s fresh?” He scowled and I received no answer. Foolishly, I […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review, Six Feet Under
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, April 8th, 2024
In 2022 UK deathcore/slam titans Ingested dropped Ashes Lie Still, a more experimental and tempered album that showed the band’s more introspective side as frontman Jason Evans dealt with the loss of his father. The band also clearly saw some of the success Whitechapel had with their duo of The Valley and Kin, as more […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Erik T, Ingested, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, March 22nd, 2024
The idea that I, some dumb schmuck from the fuck-all dregs of nowhere, could actually offer anything that might change your opinion of Midnight or indeed this, their latest offering of dick-swinging, occult-obsessed Blackened Speed and Punk, is goddamn laughable. In fact, I’ll just come right out and say this right from the get-go (because the […]
Tags: 2024, Blackened Punk, Blackened Speed, Blackened Thrash, Hellish Expectations, Metal Blade Records, Midnight, Speed Metal, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, February 26th, 2024
It’s been ten years since we last heard from Job For A Cowboy, so let me give a cliffnotes back story: the band is one of the first deathcore bands to blow up thanks to a Spongebob Squarepants video mash-up to the song “Knee Deep” (it is how I first heard the band- and it’s […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Job For A Cowboy, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, December 8th, 2023
One of the surprises being a metal reviewer (not journalist, mind you), is receiving the new promo for a band of whom I have been a fan for a while now. It’s even better when it’s out of nowhere. In this case I am of course referring to Sorcerer and their new, streamlined album Reign […]
Tags: 2023, Epic Doom Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review, Sorceror
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, October 16th, 2023
In the end, how do you want to be remembered? Will you be remembered at all? The ultimate weight of our own legacy hangs like a formless specter, bearing down on us with every waking moment, growing heavier and more gnarled with every step towards this life’s inevitable conclusion. And that’s kind of a bitch, […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, How It Ends, Metal Blade Records, Primordial, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
I don’t know how many Volbeat fans there are dwelling in our dungeon, but if there are any, it may please them to know this is frontman Michael Poulsen’s return to death metal. “Return,” your dumb ass questions incredulously? Yes, return. If you’re unfamiliar with his band Dominus’s early material, I’d recommend familiarizing yourself, as […]
Tags: 2023, Asinhell, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, September 18th, 2023
Can you believe Chaos Horrific is the 16th album from Cannibal Corpse? Talk about an achievement in death metal. Seriously if they wanted to break up now who could blame them? They have accomplished more than enough and have given back to the death metal scene an enormous amount. That said, other than the album […]
Tags: 2023, Cannibal Corpse, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › Z on Friday, August 4th, 2023
California’s The Zenith Passage returns with their second full-length album Datalysium. It has been seven years since their debut album Solipist was released. I was very much impressed with their debut full-length. These guys have an incredibly progressive and mechanical approach to technical death metal. This is the second metal blade album I have heard […]
Tags: 2023, Metal Blade Records, Nick K, Review, Technical Deathcore, The Zenith Passage
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
This is a great metalcore album. More than that, it’s just a great album regardless of genre. I hadn’t listened to Death Ray Vision’s last one, but enjoyed the first mainly because I’ll listen to pretty much anything in which these metalcore masters are involved. Add Brian Fair of Shadows Fall and you have me. […]
Tags: 2023, Death Ray Vision, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Metalcore, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
So after splitting up shortly after 2011’s Opus Mortis VIII, with most of the members going on to form Cut Up (essentially Vomitory 2.0) and releasing a couple of solid albums, one of Sweden’s most long-running and purely, staunchly death metal (no groove metal or death ‘n’ roll diversions) bands is back together and it’s […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik, Metal Blade Records, Review, Vomitory
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 15th, 2023
Cattle Decapitation needs no introduction. Their trajectory has been astronomical since The Harvest Floor and they’ve yet to disappoint. Death Atlas let me down, but only because it was simply pretty good, and not the greatest album in the history of mankind. I saw them live back in November of 2022, the new one was […]
Tags: 2023, Cattle Decapitation, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Germany’s environmental warriors, Downfall of Gaia has been one of my reliable go-tos’s when it comes to modern post-black metal, appearing on my year-end list a couple of times since 2012s Suffocating in a Swarm of Cranes). But when I saw the cover for album number 6, I got major Deafheaven vibes and hoped the […]
Tags: 2023, Downfall of Gaia, Erik T, Metal Blade Records, Post Black Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, March 17th, 2023
“While we all have lots of bands who influence still… we all rip off Meshuggah.” -Devin Townsend I mention this quote because, despite my opinion of them (I do not much like them, kind sir), their influence and impact on modern heavy metal cannot be overstated. This is not to say Entheos has or ever […]
Tags: 2023, Entheos, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Metal/Djent, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
2018 saw the release of the debut album Warning Blast, by international band Siege of Power. I mean with a band name, named after one of the best Napalm Death songs ever-you cannot go wrong. Featuring members of Asphyx, Autopsy, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Hail of Bullets, Infidel Reich…I mean I can go on and […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Siege of Power
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, November 7th, 2022
As heralded by their single “Rebirth” (which appears on this album as a remixed bonus track) from earlier this year, one of the UK’S leading deathccore/slamming death metal acts, Ingested is a band reborn. Now a three-piece consisting of drummer Lyn Jeffs, guitarist/backing vocalist Sean Hynes and vocalist Jason Evans and aided on this album […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, Erik T, Ingested, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, October 31st, 2022
Despite their early impact and influence, I’ve never been more than a casual Defleshed fan, for some reason preferring Hypokras, Carnal Forge, Darkane, Dew Scented, The Crown and I.N.R.I for my hyper-speedy, thrashy, melodic-ish death metal in the late 90s early to mid-00s. I own 1997s Under the Blade and 1999s Fast Forward, but both […]
Tags: 2022, Death/Thrash Metal, Defleshed, Erik T, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, October 17th, 2022
Music critics are idiots (myself included). Especially so when it comes to reviewing what can pass for a “big” release. Of course, this is metal, so that’s relatively speaking. If they say it’s the best thing since the blow job was invented, you can rest assured it sounds like pretty much everything else out there, […]
Tags: 2022, Black/Death Metal, Goatwhore, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, October 3rd, 2022
Sometimes a promo comes out that I just need to review. The promo in question here is Revocation’s new slab, Netherheaven. However, it was about third or fourth in line, I thought I had a lot more time, and then the boss comes in, knocks my macaroni and cheese off my desk into my lap, […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review, Revocation, thrash metal