Posts Tagged ‘Peaceville Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Arguably, The Fathomless Mastery is one of the most anticipated death metal records of year, partly due to the return of Mikael Åkerfeldt to vocal duties (which cancels out the loss of Dan Swano), and partly due to the fact that the bands two full length’s (2002s Resurrection Through Carnage and superb but slight step […]
Tags: 2008, Bloodbath, E.Thomas, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, June 2nd, 2008
This companion EP to last year’s terrific Fear of a Blank Planet has been accused of being a tack-on, due to the fact that it’s priced as a full release, but only features 4 songs. Those naysayers are even more sour than Steven Wilson’s mood – this is a fantastic release, and definitely not just […]
Tags: 2008, Jordan Itkowitz, Peaceville Records, Porcupine Tree, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Mikael Akerfeldt has returned to Bloodbath, and there was much rejoicing. However Dan Swano is gone now and that has had an effect on this EP moreso than Akerfeldt’s return. While the vocals are an improvement over Pete Tagtgren on Nightmares Made Flesh, the songs themselves are missing something. As opposed to the early Morbid Angel/Entombed […]
Tags: 2008, Bloodbath, Kyle Huckins, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
In over a ten-year span, Opeth have continued to give us beautiful, classic, and timeless CDs. Till this day, there really isn’t too much to complain about with the band. Sure, you will always have the naysayer who thinks they are overrated, but those of us who really enjoy the band can sit back and […]
Tags: 2008, Opeth, Peaceville Records, Review, Shane Wolfensberger
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Experimentation and innovative music must be delivered for success to prevail! Today’s metal fans will burry bands basically because of the flooded genre’s and repetitive rubbings left by uninspiring music. Though I am not as harsh as most onlookers I find it becoming harder and harder for me to get excited over new releases. Lots […]
Tags: 2007, Novembre, Peaceville Records, Review, Shane Wolfensberger
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Nocturno Culto did the mastering of Gallhammer’s debut album, Ill Innocence, so says the press release. I thought their debut album Gloomy Lights was several years back. In any case, three people with no musical experience and no idea how to play their chosen instruments band together to make raw, primal, blackened doom, sound familiar? […]
Tags: 2007, Gallhammer, Grimulfr, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, August 10th, 2007
In today’s musical world, we are lucky enough to receive DVD’s of some of our favorite artists. Underground or not, it’s just as important as the damn CD anymore and even no name acts are scrounging up the money and producing low budget concert footage. It may not be as good as actually attending the […]
Tags: 2007, DVD, Katatonia, Peaceville Records, Review, Shane Wolfensberger
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Saturday, November 11th, 2006
I’ll be the first to admit that none of My Dying Bride’s post As the Flower Withers albums haven’t really done much for me. First, mainly because have always found Aaron Stainthorpe’s clean croon insufferably whiny. There, I said it. Secondly, 34.788% Complete just ruined the band’s legacy for me. Even with the band’s sort […]
Tags: 2006, E.Thomas, My Dying Bride, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, November 28th, 2002
Five years. It has been five years since I had new material from Spain’s atmospheric black metal band Asgaroth. Corpse paint and swords were already a thing of the past for Lord Lupus, Mythral and associates, now they have dropped the pseudonyms as well. Daniel and Chris were joined in 1998 by Oscar and by […]
Tags: 2002, Asgaroth, Grimulfr, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, February 25th, 2002
The second installment of Anathema’s Resonance retrospective albums is a strange trip when you look at who and what the band currently are. Really, when you reflect on Anathema’s career, the evolution from The Crestfallen EP to the band’s recent album, A Fine Day to Exit, is fairly obvious. For proponents of everything pre-The Silent […]
Tags: 2002, Anathema, Chris Dick, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Saturday, November 17th, 2001
Now that fellow labelmates and countrymen My Dying Bride have two excellent retrospectives in the proverbial bag, Anathema get their turn to compile and assemble a collection or two of their own. While Bride’s dual slabs of melancholy were voted by the fans on the group’s website, Anathema here seems particularly adamant over what tracks […]
Tags: 2001, Anathema, Chris Dick, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, October 17th, 2001
Everyone, who has followed Anathema’s illustrious career as intensely as this writer, should have seen this album coming. In purest form, A Fine Day to Exit is nothing less than a masterpiece. Not unlike Katatonia’s newest magnum opus Last Fair Deal Gone Down, the album is fueled by relentless emotive energy mixed with precise musical […]
Tags: 2001, Anathema, Jason Hundley, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Saturday, July 21st, 2001
Just as At The Gates approached the zenith of their career, internal strife within the band caused one of metal’s brightest hopefuls to supernova in a spectacular event that shocked the band’s growing legion of fans and proponents. Slaughter of the Soul will forever remain lodged into the minds of metallers everywhere as the record […]
Tags: 2001, At The Gates, Chris Dick, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, April 24th, 2001
With 27 tracks spanning six studio releases (along with a few live numbers and a demo gem), Torn from the Grave is the definitive Autopsy collection, and fans of the ye olde school of death metal need look no further for moronic, blood-soaked, brain-bashing fun. The CD itself is a beautiful digipack, featuring four fold […]
Tags: 2001, Autopsy, Jay Paiva, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, April 10th, 2001
Peaceville never plied the safest of waters with its artists or its artists’ statements. The label’s outspoken stance on artist integrity is seen not in the atmospheric delight of Anathema, My Dying Bride, et al., but in the likes of Autopsy, GGFH and, most importantly, Dark Throne. Autopsy’s Shitfun cover was the progenitor of the […]
Tags: 2001, Akercocke, Chris Dick, Peaceville Records, Review