Posts Tagged ‘Prosthetic Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Thursday, December 15th, 2022
I have a problem with power metal in that I miss all the great albums until after the year is over and therefore am unable to include them on my year end list. However, I did happen to catch the promo for Judicator’s new one on Prosthetic called The Majesty of Decay, and I am […]
Tags: 2022, J Mays, Judicator, Power Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, July 25th, 2022
Werewolves don’t like you. In fact, they fucking hate you. They said so on the first track of their last album What A Time to be Alive, and on track 2 of this new one, they flat out say they are better than you and are genuinely shocked that you think you’re worthy of buying […]
Tags: 2002, Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Werewolves
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, July 11th, 2022
You know that meme of the kid with the “stank face?” That’s what the new album by Molder (I hardly know her), Engrossed in Decay makes me do for nearly 50 minutes. It’s that hoped-for but ultimately unexpected style of filthy. The kind of nastiness not unlike the time you hooked up in the back […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, J Mays, Molder, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
I was once a metalhead elitist and gatekeeper, too. This strange thing happened where I grew the fuck up and resigned to just let people listen to what they want and enjoy their lives. Unless you listen to Five Finger Death Punch. In that case, please don’t reproduce… but since you probably already have, good […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Undeath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
2022, comin’ in HAWT. You know it’s true because of the way I spelled it. I already have 3-5 albums which are sure year end contenders and I’m writing this sentence on the last day of January. I’m not one to complain about an embarrassingly high amount of excellent metal, but it’s already been difficult […]
Tags: 2022, Abhoria, Black Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, November 26th, 2021
Eternity’s End contains Christian Munzner, Hannes Grossman, and Linus Klausenitzer in its ranks. Before assuming this is a killer technical death metal band, let me inform you that it’s not. They are, however, described as “technical power metal,” so take that for what it is. Most power metal bands have a tech aspect with their […]
Tags: 2021. Review, Eternity's End, Heavy Metal, J Mays, Power Metal, Prosthetic Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021
Do not be alarmed, but the UK’s Beyond Grace are about to unleash an absolute BANGER on your unsuspecting asses. If you listened to their debut Seekers back in 2017, you may be expecting it a little bit, but son, you don’t even fucking know. If you haven’t heard it, definitely check out Seekers because […]
Tags: 2021, Beyond Grace, Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, August 19th, 2021
I’ve been anticipating this one. Why? Well, Wormwitch’s last one, Heaven that Dwells Within, seemed to be praised by everyone. While I dug what they were doing, I thought it could be greatly improved in a few significant ways. I wasn’t a fan of the production. While it wasn’t offensive, I felt it didn’t fit […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, Crust, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Wormwitch
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
And so the killer, 2021 Bolt Thrower/ Hail of Bullets worship/homage continues, this time from notable Australian duo, Dave Haley (drums/recording) and Jason Peppiatt (vocals, guitar, bass, artwork) of Psycroptic. And if the prospect of these two delivering 8 songs about various battles in history doesn’t give you a howitzer-sized boner, then move along. Of […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Domination Campaign, Erik T, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, May 14th, 2021
Back in 2016, New Hampshire’s Vattnet Viskar looked poised to break out in a BIG friggin’ way. While genre darlings Deafheaven were indeed the face and forefront of a blooming Blackgaze scene, the Granite Staters had made some giant strides to make a name for themselves in An increasingly packed field, leading up to 2015’s […]
Tags: 2021, Astronoid, Black Metal, Death Metal, Kataan, Post Black Metal, Post-Metal, Prosthetic Records, Vattnet Viskar
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
“Come up front! You’re going to do it later anyway! Just do it now!” This was the beckon of Wolf King’s frontman Tim Wilson when I saw his band open for Conjurer, Entheos, and Rivers of Nihil. I did not answer this call. Well, at least not favorably. See, I’m about 5’6”, was sitting at […]
Tags: 2021, Crust, Death Metal, Hardcore, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Wolf King
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, January 21st, 2021
What a Time to Be Alive, indeed, Werewolves. If you missed last year’s The Dead Are Screaming from these guys, you’re a damned fool and no friend of mine. If you had told me before this promo dropped in my hands (figuratively, of course) that we would see another album from these Australians so soon, […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Werewolves
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Thursday, January 7th, 2021
Listen, hear me out. 2020 was bullshit. I KNOW! Wild claim. One that certainly hasn’t been used to frame the context of endless metal album reviews. No sir. This is Grade-A original material here! So, why do I bring the 2020 thing up THIS time? Well, for a while there, it seemed like maybe, JUST […]
Tags: 2020, Metal, Prosthetic Records, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
“That was filthier than expected” is not a phrase often uttered as a compliment. Unless, of course we’re talking about Pittsburgh Nellie (a Welsh whore who can do things with her one good arm that would make you forget that thing on her neck). It is, however, frequently a compliment when it comes to metal. […]
Tags: 3030, Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Undeath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Virginia’s Foretoken is the new technical, symphonic black/melodic death metal bans from Steve Redmond (guitars/orchestration) and Dan Cooley (vocals), who both serve in technical death metal band Cyaegha (whose debut Steps to Descent, I reviewed here way back in 2009). They are aided by drummer Hannes Grossman (Obscura, Necrophagist), as well as a couple of […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, Foretoken, Melodic Death Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Fires in the Distance just a few short years ago could have been a metaphor for the United States. Everything was going to burn, but it not yet. I doubt that was the inspiration behind the band’s moniker, but if it was and they decided to change it today, might I recommend the more appropriate […]
Tags: 2020, Fires In The Distance, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Power metal. I don’t think there’s a single metalhead I have met who doesn’t have a soft spot for it. When speaking with other metalheads, there are many favorites who come to mind; Helloween, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Manowar, Iced Earth, and, hell, even Judas Priest. One’s favorite or favorites sometimes has to do with when […]
Tags: 2020, Heavy Metal, J Mays, Judicator, Power Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, July 3rd, 2020
Originally self released last year, but picked up by Prosthetic Records for a CD and gorgeous baby blue/purple swirl LP, Eternity’s End is the debut from this Ohio based melodic death metal trio featuring 2 members of Viking metal band Hammer Horde and 1 from Blood of the Prophets. Don’t let the term melodic death […]
Tags: 2020, Astralborne, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, June 8th, 2020
Werewolves is a new blackened death metal super group of sorts from Australia featuring Sam Bean (The Berzerker, The Senseless,The Antichirst Imperium ) on vocals/bass, Matt Wilcock (The Berzerker, Abramalin, The Antichirst Imperium) and most notably drummer Dave Haley (Abramelin, The Amenta, Psycroptic, Ruins). According to the promotional materials , the album was written and […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Prosthetic Records, Review, Werewolves
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
I don’t want to kickstart an existential crisis by getting too far into how old I am, but let’s just say that if I had a dime for all the different fads and trends that the world of heavy music has gone through in my lifetime, I’d have a lot more free time to impart […]
Tags: 2020, Leeched, Progressive/Sludge Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
Sometimes as a reviewer social networking helps. A YouTube link from a record label might pop across your timeline and give you the choice to listen to or not. Thus was the case with Atlanta’s Paladin and their video for their tune, “Shoot for the Sun”. First off, the riffing is so over the top […]
Tags: 2019, Melodic Death Metal, Nick K, Paladin, Prosthetic Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
To me, the career path of Australia’s Psycroptic has somewhat mirrored Poland’s Decapitated: 7 albums in, early career highlighted by a couple of critically acclaimed technical death metal albums, then both had a divisive vocalist change with Psycroptic moving to the Jason Pepiatt and Decapitated moving from Sauron to Cowan then a slight style shift into less tech death metal realms. Those familiar […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, Prosthetic Records, Psycroptic, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
So two major label, modern tech death metal bands are going to be vying for your attention this spring. On Metal Blade we have Rivers of Nihil and their ambitiously evolved Where Owls Know My Name, on Prosthetic Records, we have Orlando’s ‘philosophical’ (not all of the band members are Christian), progressive death metal new comers, […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Monotheist, Prosthetic Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, March 17th, 2017
I’ve been keeping tabs on this Minnesota act since the demise of With Dead Hands Rising, one of the oos early and better deathcore/metalcore acts, as they feature some former WDHR members. And finally they have released a follow up to 2014s self released debut, Poison of the Earth, and it’s quite the follow up. […]
Tags: 2017, E.Thomas, Prosthetic Records, Reaping Asmodiea, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, February 24th, 2017
In my year end list for this site, the two albums I put on my “Please Don’t Disappoint in 2017” list were Analepsy (the first glimpses of that one sound incredible), and Hour of Penance. I have been a big fan of Hour of Penance since The Vile Conception and the two LPs following that […]
Tags: 2017, Hour of Penance, Kevin E, Prosthetic Records, Review