Posts Tagged ‘Napalm Records’
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
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › N on Monday, February 8th, 2021
I have been a big fan of Brazil’s death/thrash all female band Nervosa since their 2014 Victim of Yourself debut album. I reviewed that album and interviewed the guitarist Prika Amaral and then vocalist/bassist Fernanda Lira. Both were super cool and totally into the old school death and thrash metal bands and really loved paying […]
Tags: 2021, Frank Rini, Napalm Records, Nervosa, Review, thrash metal
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 › U on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
One of the greatest pleasures of growing older is the opportunity to get further and further away from the younger idiot you once were. Notice I say “opportunity” – this is by no means a given. The world is (VERY OBVIOUSLY!) filled with an overwhelming amount of assholes with absolutely no interest in taking a […]
Tags: 2020, Groove Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Steve K, The Unguided
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, September 18th, 2020
Much like Connecticut’s Fires In The Distance, Austin, TX’s Hinayana (‘Lesser Path’ in Sanskrit) is a US based band playing an excellent melodic doom death style that sounds like they come from Finland or some other Scandinavian shore that perfects this style of metal in their sleep. Deep vocals, crunchy guitars, layers of somber melody […]
Tags: 2020, Death/Doom Metal, Hinayana, Melodic Death/Doom, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, August 24th, 2020
This all could have all been so easy. Unleash the Archers has made a habit out of taking big leaps with every one of their releases throughout their young career. Yes – ideally, every band should get better with every record – but the exponential growth these guys have shown as musicians on every new […]
Tags: 2020, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Review, Steve K, Unleash The Archers
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Sojourner hail from a lot of various countries, such as Sweden and New Zealand. I admit to being a recent fan of their music and they have been around since 2015. Their debut in 2016, Empires of Ash and follow-up in 2018 The Shadowed Road are both excellent. The band blending atmospheric black metal with […]
Tags: 2020, Atmospheric Black Metal, Frank Rini, Napalm Records, Review, Sojourner
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
North Carolina’s Æther Realm caused quite a stir with their astounding 2017 sophomore album, Tarot. Indulging in an addictive, intricate form of melodic death and folk. The album was my number one pick in 2017 and is regularly revisited several years later. With success comes high expectations, and prior to its release, worries had set […]
Tags: 2020, Folk Metal, Luke Saunders, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Æther Realm
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
When the new thrash bands started to re-emerge in the 2000’s one of the best bands, that put many of the bigger acts to shame were and still is California’s Warbringer. I was lucky enough to catchy them on their debut album tour for War Without End when they toured with Exodus and Kreator. I […]
Tags: 2020, Frank Rini, Napalm Records, Review, thrash metal, Warbringer
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, May 25th, 2020
We all know who Alestorm are by now and what style of ‘love it or hate it’ pirate based thrash heavy metal they play, but I had an unnerving bad feeling about Alestorm’s sixth album before I even heard some of the songs. 2017s No Grave But the Sea was another solid effort of pirate […]
Tags: 2020, Alestorm, Erik T, Napalm Records, Pirate Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, April 27th, 2020
As I once said (not very long ago!), Tuomas Saukkonen is one goddamn busy dude. To me, Wolfheart’s first two releases, Winterborn and Shadow World, were absolute masterpieces – epic, emotive and creatively diverse albums the breathed new, inspiring life into a subgenre that was abandoned and left for dead, and put them nearly on […]
Tags: 2020, Napalm Records, Review, Steve K, Wolfheart
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
YOU EVER DONE COCAINE?! I… haven’t, actually. Never even had the desire to. Don’t misunderstand me, I’ve been no angel by any stretch of the imagination in my lifetime – I’m in no position to judge anyone of their proclivities – but when it came to uppers, I’ve never really needed the aid of any […]
Tags: 2020, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Review, Steve K, Victorius
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
After releasing a four-song demo in 2017, all female death doom newcomers, Konvent, have now bestowed upon us their full-length debut, Puritan Masochism. Their own Bandcamp page states that it would not be a surprise if this album conjures a well-deserved revival for the entire death doom genre. That’s quite a proclamation with so many […]
Tags: 2020, Death/Doom Metal, J Mays, Konvent, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
2019 has been a banner year for power metal, especially for some of the bigger name bands, and more importantly power metal bands I actually like: Battle Beast, Beast In Black, Twilight Force, Sabaton , Grimgotts, 43 Rhapsody based bands and even grizzled Hammerfall all released albums, with some of them certainly in the mix […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Review, Wind Rose
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Friday, March 15th, 2019
When I checked out 2016s King Of Everything promo from this Ukranian act, and the lead single (or at least the video/single that came with the promo) “Words of Wisdom“, I wasn’t overly impressed with the sort of djenty modern groove, nu metal. But a couple of years later, I started seeing ‘reaction’ videos to a […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, Groove Metal, Jinger, Modern Metal, Napalm Records, Nu Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, February 11th, 2019
Cripes- I have not reviewed an Unleashed album since 2006s Midvinterblot, and frankly due to a really awkward interview with founder Jonny Hedlund after I ripped 2002s Hells Unleashed, haven’t really given the band too much attention, despite an apparent solid run of albums since then in Hammer Battalion, As Yggdrasil Trembles, Odalheim, Dawn of the Nine. So, […]
Tags: 2019, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Napalm Records, Review, Unleashed, Viking/Folk Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
I have no prior experience with progressive Netherlands symphonic, melodic death/black metal duo, Shylmagoghnar ( a moniker the duo created), but their second album, Transience is one of the most wondrous albums of the year. Seriously, this is a really good album. It reminds me a little of Disillusion and their progressive melodic death metal magnum opus […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Napalm Records, Review, Shylmagoghnar