Posts Tagged ‘Nuclear Blast Records’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, May 22nd, 2023
I do not purport to be an expert on all things Immortal, the long-standing Norwegian Black Metal band, but I do have some interesting things to share, probably more opinions than anything else, before delving into the band’s 10th album, War Against All. Until now I only followed the band from 1992-1996, so that is […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Frank Rini, Immortal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, April 24th, 2023
I think it’s safe to say the Tri-State Area East Coast thrashers Overkill regained their mojo with 2010’s Ironbound album. They were also armed with a new label Nuclear Blast Records, where they have remained since. The four albums which followed were also pretty damn ass-kicking and that trend continues with Scorched, the band’s…wait for […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Nuclear Blast Records, Overkill, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
UK’s long-running doom mavens, Paradise Lost have been a hit or a miss for me. I’ll admit to being a tremendous fan of their first two albums Lost Paradise and Gothic mainly because of the doom/death/goth atmosphere, but after that, their material was a departure of that sound and just did not do it for […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Gothic Rock, Host, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, March 6th, 2023
In 1994, I was a twenty something working at Best Buy. We had received a copy of the Emperor/Enslaved massive split Hordanes Land and it caught my eye. I had no clue what Black Metal was, had never heard of the genre at all. Of course, Emperor comes first, and those four tracks alone had […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Progressive Metal, Enslaved, Jeremy Beck, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 13th, 2023
Imagine, if you would, finding a way to beat the odds and make a legitimate career for yourself in music. Dope! You’ve already lived out the dream of myriads of artists around the world. But not only are you making a living, you’re literally spearheading an entire musical movement – laying a foundation and becoming […]
Tags: 2023, In Flames, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Much like my porn, my tastes in power metal are very specific. And also, both usually involve cosplaying, elves, dwarves and….. dragons?… anyway I digress…. What I’m trying to say is that there are only a few power metal bands I truly enjoy, and one of them is Sweden’s Twilight Force. Heck, 2019s Dawn of […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Power Metal, Review, Twilight Force
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
Reviewing an album from my favorite band, Type O Negative will be like Peter (and his peter) in that infamous Playgirl spread… HARD (allegedly). I started writing for Teeth of course well after Lord Petrus passed away, so I never imagined the time would come where I would not only get to review one of […]
Tags: 2023, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Type O Negative
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, November 28th, 2022
Let’s be honest, any deathcore records released in 2022 are going to be compared to Lorna Shore‘s Pain Remains, and releasing the same month as Pain Remains is a ballsy move. But Unique Leader pulled off two successful competitors with A Wake in Providence and Bonecarver. Let’s see how Nuclear Blast’s entry, the debut from […]
Tags: 2022, Cabal, Deathcore, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Well lookie here, it seems Kam Lee and crew have snuck back into our presence just mere months since their full-length release Resurgence landed, declaring Massacre was back to to swallow your fucking soul. With Mythos we’re only getting four tracks stretched across fifteen minutes, but thats okay, less is more so they say, plus […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Massacre, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, August 29th, 2022
“Don’t knock it until you try it.” I start off with this because my original intro to this review was… unkind. After Catharsis, which I didn’t hate as much as seemingly everyone else (I used my words carefully and honestly there), I was prepared for this to be a shit sandwich. In my original intro, […]
Tags: 2022, Groove Metal, J Mays, Machine Head, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, August 22nd, 2022
Bjorn? Sven? Sylvain? David? Bastian? Rasmus? Good, you’re all here. Before we get started; Take off the chauffer’s cap, please Bjorn. We’re talking about Soilwork, not The Night Flight Orchestra. You should have known that. I thought I put it on the Outlook Calendar invite. Anyway, I’ve gathered all of you here to let you […]
Tags: 2022, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Soilwork
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, July 4th, 2022
Virginia’s crossover/thrash lunatics Municipal Waste return with their seventh album. I remember when this entire genre resurged like around 2000 and MW were the new kids on the block. Now it’s over 20 years later they’ve been around and are veterans. I was really happy when drummer Dave Witte joined in 2005. He’s a great […]
Tags: 2022, Crossover Metal, Frank Rini, Municipal Waste, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, June 27th, 2022
Hate über alles is the 15th album from German thrashers Kreator. IMO they are the best German thrash band, ever. Seen them live so many times and other than 2 meh albums, Outcast and Endorama their discography destroys. Kreator are not reinventing the wheel but maybe the new bassist Frederic Leclercq (Loudblast) said let’s up the ante a little more. “Sergio Corbucci […]
Tags: 2022, Frank Rini, Kreator, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
Kansas’s technical death metal powerhouse Origin return with their eighth full length record Chaosmos. Paul Ryan, Mikey Torres, Jason Keyser, and John Longstreth waste zero time pummeling the listener with the opening track “Ecophagy.” The track starts off with a strong hook and then proceeded to get progressively more technical as the track goes on. […]
Tags: 2022, Agonia Records, Nick K, Nuclear Blast Records, Origin, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, May 2nd, 2022
I reviewed Watains’s Trident Wolf Eclipse in 2018. Being new to their music back then, but knowing about them for years, I went into their music with fresh ears. I really enjoyed that album as well as their prior releases. They play a pretty high-octane style of black metal but mixed in with their melodies and metal influences […]
Tags: 2022, Black Metal, Frank Rini, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Watain
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 7th, 2022
There’s something that feels a little… I dunno… strange about listening to Sabaton these days. Right? To be fair, it’s not like war hasn’t been a constant part about being on planet Earth. But WORLD War? Jeez, seems sort of… archaic, no? Making bombastic, rousing power metal about heroism and battlefield glory and all that […]
Tags: 2022, Heavy Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Power Metal, Sabaton, Steve K, The War To End All Wars
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 14th, 2022
Holy crappers- Acts of God is Immolation’s eleventh album. Man, I feel like time has flown right by me. It seems like only yesterday I was at Spark’s on Long Island, NY watching them headline once Dawn of Possession was released. I remember speaking with the entire band, buying merch. I would bring said DOP […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Immolation, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, February 10th, 2022
I do not need music to help me achieve a depressed state, Hangman’s Chair, okay? I do very well with that as my default, thank you very much. However, if you’re unlike me (for your own sake, let’s hope), maybe you just need that nudge or like to feel miserable sometimes. If so, A Loner, […]
Tags: 2022, Doom Metal, Hangman's Chair, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Stoner Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, January 31st, 2022
As I’ve stated many times before in these very pages, I’m very picky about my heavy/power metal. It’s not a genre I generally really enjoy or get into, but I’ve certainly come to appreciate the likes of Blind Guardian, WindRose, Dragony, Fairyland, Thy Majestie, Grail Knights, Pathfinder, Twilight Force, and the 23 Rhapsody related bands, […]
Tags: 2022, Battle Beast, Erik T, Heavy Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Power Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, January 20th, 2022
It’s a shame when a band, especially one so far into their career, doesn’t know who or what they want to be. With a discography in the range of good to great, unfortunately it feels like this is where we find deathcore veterans Fit For An Autopsy. I’ll explain… While the opening track, which is […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, Fit For An Autopsy, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Here’s a band and album specifically for those that want older/early Deafheaven back and thought the new album, Infinite Granite was ….not good (but that’s a whole other discussion…). And yes count me in that number. Møl (‘Moth’) is a Danish post-black/shoegaze band that finds itself on Nuclear Blast after a debut album, Jord back […]
Tags: 2021 Erik T, Atmospheric Black Metal, Møl, Nuclear Blast Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, December 13th, 2021
In their short existence, Denver’s doom metal act Khemmis have created some of the best metal these ears have heard in a while. I credit my buddy and former Deepsend Records owner, Graham Landers with introducing them to me some years ago and their three prior albums and eps are all excellent and well played […]
Tags: 2021, Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Khemmis, Nuclear Blast Records
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 › H on Monday, December 6th, 2021
Listen, there’s no denying the place of Peter Tägtgren and Hypocrisy in the pantheons of metal over the last almost 30 years. I personally hold Penetralia, Osculum Obscenum, and The Fourth Dimension in super high regard with the latter arguably being the peak of their career as they shifted into more melodic death metal realms […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Hypocrisy, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, November 22nd, 2021
I have reviewed 2 of the 3 last Obscura albums, including the magnificent 2016 magnum opus, Akroasis. But for some reason, we/I never covered 2018s Diluvium album, despite it being yet another standout in the band’s consistently brilliant releases, thought it saw them take a more melodic turn. So I thought I would return to […]
Tags: 2021, Nuclear Blast Records, Obscura, Review, Technical Death Metal