Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 26th, 2024
It’s been a few weeks since my deep dive into Helloween’s back catalog and then the killer album from MadHatter showed up, and now I’m going deeper into the Power Metal void with Shadows of Steel and their searing fourth full-length Twilight II. This is a ass-kicker, fast when it needs to be and harmonious […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Metallic Blue Records, Power Metal, Review, Shadows of Steel
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Back in 2012, I reviewed The Abrogation from Alabama’s Chaos Invocation, a damn solid piece of ripping death metal. But then nothing for over 10 years. I was recently curious about the status of the band it turns out vocalist Chris White (also of Blood Stained Dusk) and guitarist/bassist Cam Pinkerton actually left the band […]
Tags: 2024, Black Hole Deity, Blackened Death Metal, Erik T, Everlasting Spew Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
I’ve had a few moments where I look at the speakers and ask myself ‘what the fuck am I listening to?’ Of course I already know obviously but in terms of the sounds coming into my ears, it’s a process to process and then decide if I like it enough to stick around. Which brings […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, I Voidhanger Records, Jeremy Beck, Review, Todesstoss
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
A few years ago I reviewed Embryonic Autopsy’s terrific debut album, Prophecies of the Conjoined, which was the new death metal act by now reformed Oppressor singer and friend Tim King. Once again joining Tim on Origins of the Deformed is Scott Roberts on guitars and the band bringing in new members, Kenxi on bass […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Embryonic Autopsy, Frank Rini, Massacre Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, July 22nd, 2024
This summer, two pretty revered veteran, symphonic black metal acts will be releasing their ninth albums (both on June 28th no less!). Both released their debut albums in 1996 and both waited 6-7 years between their last albums and these new releases. One is Norway’s Limbonic Art, who released their debut The Moon In Scorpio […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Hammerheart Records, Review, Sear Bliss, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 19th, 2024
Wow. Here is some really creative, unique black/death metal from a Belgian band I know nothing about other than they have 1 prior album under their belt. The actual ‘Shiva Hypothesis’ is a theory concerning extinction-level events and meteors, but the band is a 4 piece with ties to various other Belgian death metal acts, […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, The Shiva Hypothesis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, July 19th, 2024
The years between 1930 and 1947 are incredibly monumental years for a number of reasons. WWII was a pivotal time in world history, and the rise of fascism was the impetus for the United States to get involved (among other things.) Within Black Metal there lies a hole where politics turn blood red in […]
Tags: 2024, ATMF, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kommandant, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Pentagram (Chile) has literally been around for just shy of 40 years – can you wrap your head around that for a moment? How about the fact that Eternal Life of Madness is only their second album, their debut finally dropping in 2013 – The Malefice, a monstrously amazing debut album, capturing all the essence […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Listenable Records, Pentagram Chile, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
So A while ago, I was having a crazy day and gardening was the main task at hand, but it was made all the better because El Jefe had sent me this promo and I was pretty anxious because of the “Black Metal meets Hawkwind” description in the press blurb. The promo went straight to […]
Tags: 2024, Aklash, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, July 15th, 2024
Spain’s Wormed has been around for over 25 years – wow how time really flies into a space vortex!!! The band takes their time with releasing albums and other than a 2019 stop-gap EP Metaportal, which I reviewed, Omegon has taken eight years to come out since the scorching Krighsu. Omegon is Wormed’s fourth album […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal, Wormed
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, July 12th, 2024
Formerly known as Epitasis, Chicago’s Carrion Throne is listed as a Doom/Death band on Metal-Archives, but after hearing this debut EP, I’m more inclined to list them as a more Brutal/Slam Death metal band more in line with Devourment and Wormed. The 6 songs here (4 new songs and 2 demo songs from 2022) are […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Carrion Throne, Death Metal, Erik T, Lacerated Enemy Records, Review, Slam
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, July 11th, 2024
I haven’t written anything in over a month. It’s not just writing about metal, but it’s hard to enjoy any of my passions. Not to go too far into detail, but Kittie’s long-awaited new album Fire came out the day before I found out that my mother didn’t have much time left. Just a few […]
Tags: 2024, J Mays, Kittie, Nu Metal, Review, Sumerian Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
Sometimes I find myself needing a break from Death Metal, Black Metal, and those related sub-genres and I look for something heavy, but different. So the other day I went down a Helloween rabbit hole, Keeper of the Seven Keys 1&2, Walls of Jericho; those are two prime examples of precision German Power Metal, while […]
Tags: 2024, Art Gates Records, Jeremy Beck, Mad Hatter, Power Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
My bud Alex, the owner of Dolorem Records, has once again sent me a promo for one of his bands and this time it’s for Serement, a blackened death metal band hailing from Greece. I had never heard of the word Serement and decided to look it up but had no luck, the net kept […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Dolorem Records, Frank Rini, Review, Serement
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, July 8th, 2024
Early in their career, the Norwegian duo Limbonic Art was close to being mentioned in the same circles as the likes of Emperor, Arcturus, Borknagar, and such. Their 1996 debut The Moon in Scorpio and 1997 follow up In Abhorrence Dementia, were heralded as near classics in the symphonic black metal genre. However, the band […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Erik T, Kyrck Productions & Armour, Limbonic Art, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, July 5th, 2024
What do you get when you cross mid-90s Black Metal ie: Dark Funeral, The Abyss, Necrophobic and Dissection with Helloween, and Metallica? The kind of vibe that Bloodcross is laying down on Gravebound. These unholy Finns are firing on all thrusters with this debut full-length. After releasing the Abysmal Blood Demo in 2021, they (presumably) […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Bloodcross, Jeremy Beck, Personal Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Canada keeps kicking out sick tech death bands in 2024. Sentiment Dissolve has been around since 2021. The Orwellian Dream kicks off with “Forced Birther.’ Right off the bat you can hear how intricate their arrangements and vocal patterns are. You can hear the Archspire influence on the vocal patterns which are quite impressive done […]
Tags: 2024, CDN Records, Nick K, Review, Sentiment Dissolve, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Technical Death Metal is one of those sub-genres I must be in the mood for. The same goes for Power Metal, but I’m talking about Replacire and not Sonata Artica; the former being the Eric Alper driven death machine that I had no idea existed and the latter being one of the best Power Metal […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Replacire, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Sweden’s Wormwood burst onto the melodic black metal scene with 2017’s excellent Ghostlands, followed up by Nattarvett, the first of a planned trilogy of albums. Part two of the trilogy, 2021s Arkivet saw the band take a melancholic downturn befitting the tale of mankind’s general shittiness. I was hoping for a return to the more […]
Tags: 2024, Black Lodge Records, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Wormwood
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, July 1st, 2024
I reviewed and raved about the Cavalera brothers re-recording the first two recordings of Sepultura, Bestial Devastation/Morbid Visions EP, last year. Last year when they played “Escape to the Void” and “Inquisition Symphony” live, on the Morbid Devastation tour, I knew it was a matter of time before we all got notice that Schizophrenia was […]
Tags: 2024, Cavalera, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, June 28th, 2024
When Arizona’s Gatecreeper burst onto the scene 10 years ago they did it with such gusto, ushering in a bludgeoning death metal sound. By incorporating many elements of the Swedish chainsaw – buzzsaw HM-2 heaviness with large elements of groove they became one of the heaviest bands, overnight. Across their prior two albums and eps […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Gatecreeper, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, June 28th, 2024
Henry Kane (AKA Jonny Petterson from Wombbath) has released two fine grindcore/crust albums under this Poltergeist-named project; 2017s Den förstörda människans rike, and 2020s appropriately named Age of the Idiot. Both delivering furious, Nasum-ish-styled Swedish grind/crust. However, his third release is a completely different beast altogether. and you should probably brace for it a little bit. […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Grindcore, Henry Kane, Review, Selfmadegod Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Thursday, June 27th, 2024
Minnesota’s Grand Demise of Civilization returns with their fourth full-length album. If you are not familiar with Grand Demise of Civilization they play a unique style of black metal. Part of what makes their sound unique is their use of eight-string guitars mixed with unbelievably relentless drum work. “The Redeemer of Wrath” kicks off the […]
Tags: 2014, Black Metal, Grand Demise of Civilization, Nick K, Ordovician Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Death. War. Pestilence. Famine. A dying planet gasping for breath as it is gripped in the throes of Armageddon. Legions of demons sweep across the land, killing all in sight with reckless abandon. As the skies fall and the moon becomes black as sackcloth, it is out of this malignant hatred that Downcross was formed […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Cavum Atrum Rex, Downcross, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Monday, June 24th, 2024
Ohio continues to be one of the main hotbeds for quality American death metal bands. I am new to the 200 Stab Wounds bandwagon and it was 2022/2023 when the band came onto my radar. The label breeding ground for death metal bands getting signed to bigger labels is Maggot Stomp Records. 200 Stab Wounds […]
Tags: 200 Stab Wounds, 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review