Posts Tagged ‘Napalm Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, September 21st, 2023
I’m only going to write the words Suicidal Depressive Black Metal once, so from this point, I’m going to use the acronym SDBM. You’ve been warned, constant reader. Shining was my introduction to this shadowed genre, I went through a devastating loss in 2013 and SDBM became my refuge. Bands like An Autumn for Crippled […]
Tags: 2023, Depressive Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Napalm Records, Review, Shining
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, August 31st, 2023
I stand by the sentiment in my review of Crypta’s debut, Echoes of the Soul. There is room for them, as well as Nervosa. However, I took the diplomatic approach and didn’t take a solid stance on which album is better. That was a mistake because Echoes of the Soul is better and holds up […]
Tags: 2023, Crypta, Death Metal, J Mays, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › 012, Reviews › B on Monday, July 3rd, 2023
I generally like to think myself a pretty positive kind of guy – or at least, I try not to add any more negativity to the world than what already exists (and I think we can all certainly agree, it’s already too much). To date, I can only recall one album review I’ve ever done […]
Tags: 2023, Before the Dawn, Finnish Doom, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Doom metal, Napalm Records, Steve K, Stormbringers, Tuomas Saukonnen
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, June 19th, 2023
When I was still discovering the musical spaces of the internet back in the early 2000s, MP3 sites were my best friend. I discovered bands that I had never heard of before and experienced a whole new genre: Pagan Black Metal/Pagan Folk and holy shit my brain exploded. It wasn’t long before I was butchering […]
Tags: 2023, Arkona, Jeremy Beck, Napalm Records, Review, Viking/Folk Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, January 23rd, 2023
I’m always a little dubious when a band is claimed to be the “fathers of (X-Genre)” these days, especially when that “X” is something really hyper-specific. Take these Germans, AHAB for example: 19 year veterans in the metal scene, so certainly not a newcomer trying to make a name for themselves or anything like that […]
Tags: 2023, Ahab, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, Napalm Records, Steve K, The Coral Tombs
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, January 16th, 2023
For a band known more for it’s morose atmospheres, downtempo paces and overall depressive tones, Katatonia sure has a way of getting albums off to a quick and, at least in my case, startling beginning. I swear, it’s like the band is fucking with me, or at the very least trying to catch us all […]
Tags: 2023, Doom Metal, Katatonia, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Doom metal, Napalm Records, Sky Void of Stars, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, December 1st, 2022
At Teeth of the Divine, we all have our own individual tastes and personal preferences when it comes to metal – a point which has, unfortunately, led to some words we wish we hadn’t said and no shortage of blood left on each of our hands. Literally. We’ve made some… mistakes… ANYWAY, one thing that […]
Tags: 2022, Heavy Metal, Morgana, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Steve K, Warkings
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, November 21st, 2022
I struggle to think of another band revered with such legendary status as Candlemass has within the pantheons of Heavy Metal, with as strange and unorthodox a journey as theirs over their almost 40 year career. The breakups, reformations and seemingly endless string of cryptic hints at retirement, the rotating lineup of ex-members entering and […]
Tags: 2022, Candlemass, Doom Metal, Epic Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K, Sweet Evil Sun
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
I’m just gonna go ahead and set all my clocks back by like, I dunno, 20 or 25 years? Etsy has LOTS of Princess Diana calendars from 1998 available, so I’m well covered there. I hear JNCO jeans are sorta a thing again? So much denim. The reason for all this turn-of-the-21st-century behavior? MELODEATH IS […]
Tags: 2022, Brymir, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
I dunno about you, but I love the defiant underdog. There’s just something super compelling about someone or something staring in the face of inevitable defeat and devastation, and flipping it the double-birds because “go fuck yourself that’s why.” I admire the hell out of that spirit. To that end, one of history’s most chronicled […]
Tags: 2022, Defacing God, Extreme Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
This is probably going to sound really stupid, which is something I’m not exactly unaccustomed to doing so… Oh well. It’s easy to forget sometimes that our favorite bands and musicians are, well, artists! In every sense of the word. They create, the evolve, they strive to grow and follow their artistic journeys and trust […]
Tags: 2022, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Steve K, Wolfheart
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Let me just say straight away that this is not a metal album. Its hard to describe what it is, exactly. Argh! Ok, its fair to say I have never done any sort of Classical music review… ever. While this is a Satyricon album, and their name is on the tin. This is part of […]
Tags: 2022, Jeremy Beck, Napalm Records, Review, Satyricon
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Friday, July 29th, 2022
Alright. Well. I’m not gonna get too specific, but I’ll tell you that outside of Teeth of the Divine, I don’t live a terribly exciting or spectacular life. I’m not “living my dream” or working some self-made passion project for a living. This isn’t a complaint, I have a steady job that I’m grateful for, […]
Tags: 2022, Dinosaurs, Napalm Records, Ninjas, Power Metal, Steve K, Too Much Mountain Dew, Victorius
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, June 20th, 2022
First off, hats off to Alestorm for the whole Iron Maiden, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son homage/parody for their very own seventh album. Well played lads. Second, this is an Alestorm album, so by now, you know what you are getting, especially as the band has really locked into a sort of pirate/party metal […]
Tags: 2022, Alestorm, Erik T, Napalm Records, Pirate Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, June 13th, 2022
Italy’s premier Dwarven-themed power metallers are back with album number 5, and although I only discovered them after 2017s Stonehymn, (where they truly leaned into the Dwarven imagery and themes), they have been one of my favorite power metal bands since. 2019s Wintersaga brought us the youtube hit and earworm “Diggy Hole”, (sitting at 34 […]
Tags: 2022, Erik T, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Review, Wind Rose
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, June 6th, 2022
I don’t think there is any doubt that the first three albums from Entrails, 2010s Tales From the Morgue, 20011s The Tomb Awaits, and possibly the band’s 2013 Metal Blade debut, Raging Death are the pinnacle of the Swedish death metal revival. However, subsequent albums Obliteration, World Inferno and Rise of the Reaper didn’t quite […]
Tags: 2022, Entrails, Erik T, Hammerheart Record, Napalm Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
It warms my heart to see a band I have covered for two self-released albums now (2016s Memento Mori and 2019s Prokopton– which made my 2019 year-end list) have all the hard work pay off and get signed to a ‘big ‘ label, in this case, Napalm Records, and now deservedly rubbing shoulders with the […]
Tags: 2021, Aephanemer, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, November 5th, 2021
Recently, in between beatings for our insolence in the TOTD break room, we had a very brief conversation regarding blackened deathcore vs blackened metalcore. A small distinction, to be sure, but I didn’t have time to think about it before our fearless leader made us fearful, told us to finish up our daily rations of […]
Tags: 2021, J Mays, Metalcore, Napalm Records, Review, The Agonist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
War and Metal – It’s like peanut butter and jelly. Peanuts and beer. Peanuts and Chocolate. Peanuts and… uh… more peanuts? (I like peanuts. A lot). And generally speaking, while I’d prefer a world without war, I tend find myself gravitating towards metal bands leaning into wartime themes. Of course, some bands do the theme […]
Tags: 1914, 2021, Death Metal, Death/Doom, Doom Metal, Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, October 4th, 2021
I know, I know. Jinjer. Despite their hype and relative fame based on the seemingly hundreds of YouTube “reaction” videos, they’re still worth a listen. Or several. They’re more deserving of mainstream metal acclaim than a lot the bands who receive it. They write great, memorable songs, and have one of the most talented and […]
Tags: 2021, Djent, J Mays, jinjer, Napalm Records, Progressive Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
I’ve interviewed Alestorm twice over the years, both at this very site. And in both interviews, legendary Brit fantasy metal act Bal-Sagoth comes up as a huge influence on Alestorm’s Chris Bowes. Now, he developed that influence a little bit in his power metal outfit Gloryhammer, but I’ve been waiting for him to truly flesh […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Napalm Records, Review, Symphonic Metal, WizardThrone
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, June 28th, 2021
By the time I’m even beginning to write this review, anyone who has wanted to listen to Crypta’s debut album, Echoes of the Soul, has already had plenty of time. You know the story by now, but for those keeping score, bassist/vocalist Fernanda Lira and drummer Luana Dametto left Nervosa in 2019, that band then […]
Tags: 2021, Crypta, Death Metal, J Mays, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, March 15th, 2021
We’re at a point in metal’s history where a band reaching the 30-year mark isn’t the rarity is once was. Still impressive! Especially considering the core makeup of Moonspell’s Fernando Ribeiro, keyboardist Pedro Paixao and lead guitarist Ricardo Amorim have been together for very nearly all of it (bassist Aires Pereira has even been around […]
Tags: 2021, Dark Metal, Gothic Metal, Melodic Metal, Moonspell, Napalm Records, Steve K, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
These are the kinds of reviews that are only as hard as you want to make them. Here you’ve got a band celebrating its 25th year of making music with brand new material, and over that time they’ve never really missed a step – becoming true legends and pioneers of epic, bombastic Viking metal. Sure, […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, Einherjer, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K, Viking Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
“What’s up with that fart box guitar tone?” This is the response I received from one of my best friends when I sent him the promo video for the Bloody Hammers song “What’s Haunting You.” He is a producer, engineer, musician, sometimes front of house for a large metal band, and an overall audiophile. His […]
Tags: 2020, Bloody Hammers, Heavy Metal, J Mays, Napalm Records, Review