Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Greece’s Hail Spirit Noir are one of the most original and weirdest bands out there. Really out of the box, non-linear type of music. I have enjoyed their different types of albums, and while they started out as some avant-garde black metal band and their musical influences continued to expand and morph into some Twilight […]
Tags: 2021, Agonia Records, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Black Metal, Hail Spirit Noir, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
If I had a 2020 “do over” for my top albums of the year, I can confidently say Witnesses’ Doom II would be on it. Not only on it, but easily in the top five. Not number 1, as I picked Unleash The Archers’ Abyss and will stand firmly by it as it’s a god […]
Tags: 2021, Doom, J Mays, Review, Self-Released, Witnesses
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, October 18th, 2021
For two albums now, Dani Filth has delivered a reinvigorated Cradle of Filth since gutting the lineup after 2012s forgetful The Manticore and Other Horrors. Both 2015s Hammer of the Witches and 2017s Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay, with the same re-vamped line-up, delivered classic Cradle of Filth writing and energy that signaled Dani […]
Tags: 2021, Cradle of Filth, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, October 15th, 2021
I’ve been covering Inferi since 2009s End of an Era, and since then they have become The Artisan Era’s flagship band and one of the mainstays of the melodic/shredding technical death metal genre in the US scene. They have not been super prolific, with 2 more albums, an EP and a redo of End of […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Inferi, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
“Breathe in through your nose and out through your vagina.” This is the breathing process. At least that’s what I told a former friend who was getting a particular painful wrist tattoo. There’s also a band with the name The Breathing Process, and they may beg to differ. MAY. Anyway, I’ve never heard these blackened […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, J Mays, Review, Symphonic, The Breathing Process, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
I had no idea what to expect when checking out New Jersey’s Replicant, I just had not heard a Transcending Obscurity release in quite a while and while grabbing the killer new Abscession, I checked out Veilburner’s excellent Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull (due to the review here), and Replicant’s second album, Malignant Reality on […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Erik T, Replicant, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, October 11th, 2021
What can he said about the greatest industrial metal band of all time? I mean they started out as an alternative band until 1988 when the legendary The Land of Rape and Honey combined metal with industrial to create the benchmark for this style of music. Main man Al Jourgensen is a musical genius. Especially […]
Tags: 2021, Frank Rini, Industrial Metal, Ministry, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, October 8th, 2021
Chicago’s Black Sites make a welcome return with third LP Untrue, the follow-up to 2019’s impressive sophomore album, Exile. Since their inception in 2016, Black Sites have been on a steady upward trajectory, bringing their old school trad metal sound into the here and now, adding modern crunch and progressive elements into the mix. Now […]
Tags: 2021, Black Sites, Heavy Metal, Luke Saunders, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, October 7th, 2021
There was a time in the late 90s early 00s that I was all fucking in on Viking metal, Enslaved were still sort of Viking based, Moonsorrow were releasing downright epic albums like Voimasta ja kunniasta and Kivenkantaja, Amon Amarth were blowing up and releasing albums every month. And at the forefront of my Viking […]
Tags: 2021, Despotz Records, Erik T, Review, Thyrfing, Viking Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
‘M’ or ‘Mories’ or his real name, Maurice De Jong, as he is known here, is the Netherlands’ black metal version of Rogga Johansson. He’s in double-digit bands, though I’ve onlyheard Gnaw Their Tongues, and arguably his most known creation and De Magia Veterum, as I reviewed releases by both on this very site. And […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Golden Ashes, Improved Sequence, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, October 4th, 2021
I know, I know. Jinjer. Despite their hype and relative fame based on the seemingly hundreds of YouTube “reaction” videos, they’re still worth a listen. Or several. They’re more deserving of mainstream metal acclaim than a lot the bands who receive it. They write great, memorable songs, and have one of the most talented and […]
Tags: 2021, Djent, J Mays, jinjer, Napalm Records, Progressive Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 1st, 2021
Like it or not, deathcore is having a pretty solid comeback over the last couple or years, and it appears to be peaking in 2021 with Unique Leader Records leading the charge with releases from the likes of Distant, Osiah, To The Grave, Humanity’s Last Breath, Mental Cruelty, Worm Shepherd, Bound In Fear, (a few […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Signs Of The Swam, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Infidel Reich is back with their third release, their second full length New World Outrage. Another bombardment of Motörhead meets Sodom battalion of brutal death/thrash metal with smatterings of punk and even Carnivore. After kind of a meaningless intro “Sic Semper Tyrannis” comes bursting through with a killer riff which repeats throughout the album. I […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Infidel Reich, Raw Skull Recordz, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
A freshly minted project comprising members of Rimfrost, Sweden’s Son of Sam features dynamic duo Throllv (vocals, drums, guitars, keyboards) and Khratos (bass, guitars, backing vocals), joining forces to create a vastly different and uniquely separate entity from their main project. Although the album seems to have flown under the radar since its mid-year release, […]
Tags: 2021, Luke Saunders, Review, Self-Released, Son Of Sam
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
I honestly don’t know how they keep doing it. Seriously, Belgium’s Aborted has been on a consistent roll for damn near a solid decade now. The band, having just released their eleventh full-length album entitled Maniacult, are once again steamrolling over the scene and their peers with a fantastic display of seething viciousness that nary […]
Tags: 2021, Aborted, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, September 27th, 2021
My top 3 most anticipated albums of 2021 were Gojira, Wolf King, and Rivers of Nihil. I may also be forgetting some. However, Gojira was massively disappointing, Wolf King exceeded my expectations, and Rivers of Nihil probably have no chance of a reaching the heights I believe this band can achieve. So, it’s already clear […]
Tags: 2021, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review, Rivers of Nihil
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, September 24th, 2021
Let me start out by saying I’ve rewritten this intro and parts of the subsequent review 3 times now. That’s what happens when I have way too much time with an album and question the articulation of my thoughts. I’m always trying to write a funny, witty, creative, suitably childish intro, and sometimes when I […]
Tags: 2021, Atmospheric Black Metal, J Mays, Noltem, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, September 24th, 2021
A love of Video Games, Lovecraft, and Morbid Angel. An Interesting mix. Tim Rowland’s solo Alchemy of Flesh project is one of the biggest surprises of the year in my opinion. The attention to detail in gear selection and sound is quite impressive here. Something else that catches my attention is the killer artwork by […]
Tags: 2021, Alchemy of Flesh, Death Metal, Nick K, Redefining Darkness Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
Nephren-Ka are a brutal death metal band from France, just like Creeping Fear, who I reviewed a while ago, also on Dolorem Records. This is Nephren-Ka’s third album and the first I have heard from them. This review is for the 9 song album, however there is a bonus edition with 2 cover songs, one […]
Tags: Death Metal, Dolorem Records, Frank Rini, Nephren Ka, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, September 20th, 2021
Very late last year, I was introduced to Boston’s Seven Spires, with their second album, Emerald Seas, and immediately fell in love with them, largely due to vocalist Adrienne Cowan (who surprisingly used to be the keyboard player for deathcore act, Winds of Plague). Her range and power on songs like “Bury You” , “Succumb” […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Frontiers Records, Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal, Review, Seven Spires, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, September 17th, 2021
Let’s start off by saying “female-fronted metal” is not a thing. Well, let me walk that back. It’s definitely a THING, it’s just not a genre. If you’re one of those who thinks it is, I pose to you; Do Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Brutus, Nightwish, Capra, Lady Beast, and Cripper all sound the same? I […]
Tags: 2021, Heavy Metal, J Mays, Lutharo, Review, Self-Released, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, September 16th, 2021
I know what you’re thinking, “Why the hell is Flotsam and Jetsam‘s latest full-length, Blood in the Water, being reviewed now, months after the album’s release in June”? Well, I can give you two reasons for this. First, and this is the most important reason, Blood in the Water is 100% THE SHIT. This album […]
Tags: 2021, AFM Records, Flotsam and Jetsam, Kristofor Allred, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Hot on the heels of solid, recent, and upcoming majestic, melodic, second wave black metal homages like Warmoon Lord, Arna, Sinira, fellow one man project, Winter Eternal, Kjeld, Wooden Throne and such, comes prolific lone Aussie ‘Nightwolf’ (also in Blood Stronghold and Eternum) and his 5th releases in as many years. And while it’s my […]
Tags: Black Metal, Erik T, Iron Bonehead Productions, Review, Runespell, Second Wave
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, September 13th, 2021
This was a heavy duty order for me to review, Senjutsu, the 17th album from my favorite metal band of all time, Iron Maiden. Maiden’s earlier output from the debut up until Fear of the Dark are all my favorite Maiden albums. The first time I heard them was when I was 10 years old […]
Tags: 2021, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Parlophone, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
Pessimist started in Maryland in the early 90’s and had a bunch of hype surrounding them and I became friends with guitarist Kelly Mclauchlin through mutual friends. To see him see me back with Internal Bleeding 3 years ago in the mid-west -wearing the Voracious Contempt purple tour longsleeve from the tour was a huge […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Pessimist, Review, Season of Mist