Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, March 17th, 2022
One of the best perks of writing for Teeth of the Divine for a couple years now is that bands I’ve previously reviewed, such as Mountaineer, are releasing new material. Their last effort, Bloodletting, scored high marks from me, but their brand of post metal overall has not done much for me since then. On […]
Tags: 2022, J Mays, Lifeforce Records, Mountaineer, Post-Metal/Sludge, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, March 14th, 2022
This review is brought to you by Google Translate. Par le sang versé, the 2019 sophomore album from these epic/medieval French black metallers, snuck into the back end of my 2019 year-end list, but I if were redoing that year’s list, it would have been a top ten, maybe a top 5 release, as I […]
Tags: 2022, Antiq Records, Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Vehemence
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, March 11th, 2022
Being a huge New Orleans Saints and LSU fan, I’m generally up for anything from Louisiana, especially musically where the likes of Crowbar, Soilent Green, and Goatwhore are concerned. There’s just something about that swampy, sweaty, moist riffage that appeals to me, so checking out the debut album from Lafayette’s Golgothan ( a literal ‘shit […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Erik T, Golgothan, Lacerated Enemy Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Thursday, March 10th, 2022
In 2020 my then girlfriend and I planned a trip to London. The timing was based on convenience of our schedules and not any particular event. I’m a bit of an Anglophile and was excited to find music events going on whether it was electronic, metal, grime, indie etc in one of the most densely […]
Tags: 2022, Aphelion Productions, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Black Metal, Lugubrum, Mars Budziszewski, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Pros of the band Hath: Pretty much everything. Cons: They make me think of Hoth, which makes me think of Star Wars… and unlike many of my peers, I do not care for Star Wars. There. I said it. With all of that out of the way, here’s Hath’s heavily anticipated All That Was Promised. […]
Tags: 2022, Black/Death Metal, Hath, J Mays, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
“Then a new sound droned into our ears, the sound, deep, all-encompassing, with no notes in it, just a gigantic faraway surge of doom-like sound. It was the heavies, coming on with a terrible slowness in flights of twelve, three flights to a group, stretched out across the sky. I thought it would never end……and […]
Tags: 2022, Creeping Flesh, Death Metal, Emanzipation Productions, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
Seemed like yesterday I discovered UK based metal/hardcore/crossover/thrash/blast beat Flying Killer Cobs From the Planet Bob, Lawnmower Deth. Their 1990 debut Ooh Crikey It’s… Lawnmower Deth, on Earache Records is still one of my all time favorite albums. The band always having a laugh and incorporating humor into their various and eclectic musical styles and […]
Tags: 2022, Comedy, Death Metal, Dissonance Productions, Frank Rini, Lawnmower Deth, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Whales Don’t Fly, eh? Who is going to tell Gojira? Considering I mentioned on my year end list that their latest album was not a masterpiece but was indeed just okay, maybe it should be me. After all, I’m pretty good at breaking bad news. What I’m not good at is finding promos to review. […]
Tags: 2022, J M, Metalcore, Raging Planet Records, Review, Whales Don’t Fly
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, February 24th, 2022
I am not overly familiar with Iceland’s music scene. I know some quality death metal bands and maybe 1 or 2 black metal bands, but for the most part that country is not swarming with a gigantic scene, as far as I know. As for power metal, unless I saw Power Paladin were from Iceland, […]
Tags: 2022, Atomic Fire Records, Frank Rini, Power Metal, Power Paladin, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
I had to check and see if this second album from Spain’s customed troupe, Crusade of Bards wasn’t on Napalm Records a few times, just to be sure. They have ‘that ‘ sort of sound with symphonic, female-fronted operatic bombastic, gothic-tinged metal, and a few heavier elements (gruffs death metal vocals etc) sprinkled in here […]
Tags: 2022, Crusade of Bards, Erik T, Power Metal, Review, Rockshots Records, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
I had no idea that Nuclear Blast Records founder Markus Staiger had a split with his label last year and had formed a new label, the not so subtly named Atomic Fire Records, with some of his former Nuclear Blast folks. Not only that, they have pulled over some serious heavyweights over with them like […]
Tags: 2022, Atomic Fire Records, Erik T, Mystic Circle, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, February 21st, 2022
“This is great, but maybe a little too long” is a phrase that comes to mind when describing Allegaeon’s new album Damnum. Not when it comes to describing my penis, though. Kind of the opposite. That’s not why we’re here. If you are, though… Call me. I’ll leave my phone number coded in this review, […]
Tags: 2022, Allegaeon, J Mays, Melodic/Progressive Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, February 18th, 2022
Man… now that is an album cover. In the annals of heavy metal/extreme music, the writings of JRR Tolkien have long resided in largely black metal (Summoning), power metal (Blind Guardian), ‘garb-core’ (Battlelore) and even death metal (Khazaddum). But what the world was clearly lacking was some Tolkien-based, technical, blackened deathcore. Well, here comes Washington […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, Erik T, Mines of Moria, Reality Fade, Review, Technical Death Metal
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 › A on Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
So after an absolutely ridiculously good year for tech-death in 2021 with the likes of First Fragment, Obsidian I, Obscura, Hannes Grossman, Inferi, Stortregn, Alustrium and others, it took exactly one month for 2022 to see its first stellar tech-death record. Leiden (suffer or endure?) is the second album from this Tacoma, Washington act who […]
Tags: 2020, Aethereus, Erik T, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
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 Reviews, Reviews › V on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Germany’s Vorga burst into the scene about 6 years ago and released an EP, but Striving Toward Oblivion is their debut full length album and showcases a trailblazing style of black metal. Opening this 8 song 45 minute album is “Starless Sky” and what an opening ripper of a lead off song. Massive blasting equipped with […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records, Vorga
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
I try and keep myself open to covering things that normally don’t float my boat, hence me taking a break from deathcore and technical death metal to take stab at the third album from the UK’S black/crust act Wolfbastard. But they had a couple of things going for them; ‘Wolf’ and ‘Bastard’ are two of […]
Tags: 2022, Clobber Records, Erik T, Review, Wolfbastard
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
If you have the balls to say “chilling-yet-breathtaking ruminations harken to the golden days of melodic, nature-inspired black metal, back during the mid ’90s. Names invoked include old Borknagar, Kvist, Arckanum, Old Man’s Child, Norway’s Gehenna, and even earliest Dimmu Borgir” in your promotional materials, you had better fucking back it up, and luckily the […]
Tags: 2022, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Primitive Reaction, Review, The Mist From The Mountains
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
San Francisco’s progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune released their debut album The Bastard in 2001. They would go on to release 5 more incredible albums, their last one the phenomenal Dead Revolution in 2016. HOM is an eclectic band with influences ranging from Manilla Road, Fates Warning, Iron Maiden, Solstice (UK). But they have […]
Tags: 2022, Frank Rini, Hammers of Misfortune, Progressive Metal, Review, Self-Released
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 › S on Thursday, January 27th, 2022
January of 2020, specifically January 14th, was quite the day for deathcore. You had releases from Worm Shepherd, Fit For An Autopsy, Enterprise Earth, and a new Ingested single, as well as album number four from Connecticut’s Shadow of Intent, one of symphonic deathcore’s top bands As with 2019s excellent Melancholy, which tackled mental health […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, Review, Self-Released, Shadow of Intent, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Deathcore is having another moment. This new wave is being led by such heavyweights from last year such as Worm Shepherd, Osiah, Mental Cruelty, Signs of the Swarm, and Bound in Fear, and looks to be off to a good start with new Worm Shepherd and Shadow of Intent due out in January along with […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, J Mays, Review, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, January 24th, 2022
I’m pretty new to Wilderun’s form of symphonic classical, folk, and progressive, heavy metal/death metal smash-up, with the reissue of 2019s Veil of Imagination being my first exposure to the band to which I then picked up their more folk-tinged prior records. I described the band as a mix of Opeth, Dream Theater and Blind […]
Tags: 2022, Century Media Records, Erik T, Melodic/Progressive Death Metal, Review, Symphonic Metal, Wilderun