Posts Tagged ‘Steve K’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
I’ve mentioned this more than once on this site (most recently on my review for Megaton Sword‘s excellent Might & Power), but I take great pleasure in imagining the world of Traditional Heavy Metal as an endless sea of mighty warriors clashing in righteous battle for the right to sit upon the throne of Heavy Metal and […]
Tags: 2023, Desolate Realm, Doom Metal, Epic Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Legions, Steve K, Traditional Heavy Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, March 16th, 2023
Given recent efforts I’ve reviewed from the likes of In Flames and Hellripper, the topic of bands evolving and following their own artistic journeys has certainly been at the forefront of my mind – and I will gladly defend, ’til the day I die, any band’s right to continue pushing forward and exploring new avenues […]
Tags: 2023, Black & Roll, Hardcore, Korrupt, Post-Hardcore, Secret Sorrows, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, March 10th, 2023
While I guess it’s fair to say 2020 will be remembered for… other reasons… I, personally, will remember it as a year that saw the battle for modern Heavy Metal supremacy really get into full swing. Glorious, chainmailed, axe-wielded swing. There were the up-and-coming warriors like Black Soul Horde, Stygian Crown and Meurtrières entering the arena to […]
Tags: 2023, Dying Victim Productions, Heavy Metal, Megaton Sword, Might & Power, Power Metal, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, March 3rd, 2023
If you were to ask me right here and now what my 5 favorite metal bands of all time were, without hesitation I’d mention Amon Amarth amongst that list. And while I certainly have my preferred era of the band’s sound (With Oden On Our Side through Surtur Rising are untouchable, in my mind), there really isn’t an era […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Icestorm, Melodic Death Metal, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, February 24th, 2023
It stand to reason that with each new album an artist creates, the goal is to showcase the best, most authentic version of themselves. Make no mistake, that doesn’t mean that we, the listeners, have to like the output; but even in those cases where a new album may fall flat on the ears of […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Speed Metal, Blackened Thrash, Hellripper, Peaceville Records, Speed Metal, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 13th, 2023
Imagine, if you would, finding a way to beat the odds and make a legitimate career for yourself in music. Dope! You’ve already lived out the dream of myriads of artists around the world. But not only are you making a living, you’re literally spearheading an entire musical movement – laying a foundation and becoming […]
Tags: 2023, In Flames, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, February 9th, 2023
I’m gonna be honest – there’s a lot about Sweden’s Knogjärn that, at first glance, I really wasn’t sure about. I’m the first to admit, I can sometimes be a judgemental shit. I’m working on it. But as I looked at the band, their heavy usage of brass knuckle images led to the sneaking suspicion […]
Tags: 2023, Hard Rock, Hardcore, Knogjarn, Metal, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
As someone who was really cutting his teeth in the more extreme metal scene during Metalcore’s heyday, it’s safe to say that it will always have a special place in my heart. Even when the genre fell out of fashion and became more a butt of every gatekeeper’s jokes, it remained a regular part of […]
Tags: 2023, For I Am King, Metalcore, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, January 23rd, 2023
I’m always a little dubious when a band is claimed to be the “fathers of (X-Genre)” these days, especially when that “X” is something really hyper-specific. Take these Germans, AHAB for example: 19 year veterans in the metal scene, so certainly not a newcomer trying to make a name for themselves or anything like that […]
Tags: 2023, Ahab, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, Napalm Records, Steve K, The Coral Tombs
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, January 16th, 2023
For a band known more for it’s morose atmospheres, downtempo paces and overall depressive tones, Katatonia sure has a way of getting albums off to a quick and, at least in my case, startling beginning. I swear, it’s like the band is fucking with me, or at the very least trying to catch us all […]
Tags: 2023, Doom Metal, Katatonia, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Doom metal, Napalm Records, Sky Void of Stars, Steve K
Posted in Reviews on Friday, January 13th, 2023
New year, new me! HAHA AMIRIGHT?! Nah I’m kidding no one. You know you’re getting the same general bullshit and unrelated rantings that make me so… let’s say charming? I’M A FRIGGIN’ DELIGHT. But listen, if I do have any actual resolutions for 2023, I’d like to at least make more of an effort to […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Kohnerah, Ominous Ubiquitous, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, January 6th, 2023
When it comes to this modern world of cavernous, old school death metal – I have to admit, I’m a little bit picky. I think there’s a handful of bands that do it super well (Witch Vomit, Spectral Voice, Dead Congregation, to name a few), and I think there’s A LOT of bands that, even […]
Tags: 2022, Cursed Ways of Sheol, Death Metal, Invictus Productions, Sepulcre, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
I like to think I’m the kind of guy willing to give almost any music endeavor a fair shake, whether it falls in one of metal’s incalculable and ever-growing catalog of subgenres, or, really, whatever the hell else happens to invade my ear canals! But we all have our go-to comfort zones, right? To the […]
Tags: 2022, Atomic Fire Records, Djent, Intergalactic Demon King, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Steve K, Zeke Sky
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, December 16th, 2022
When one thinks about traditional Heavy Metal, a lot of what immediately comes to mind is, inevitably, British. From the obvious big guns of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, to the more second-tier acts like Saxon, Diamond Head or Cloven Hoof, and a seemingly endless list of others, you just cannot think Heavy Metal without thinking […]
Tags: 2022, Fireflash Records, Heavy Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, NWOBHM, Steve K, Tailgunner
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, December 8th, 2022
The putrid, unholy sickness that is today’s Blackened Speed/Thrash Metal movement (I mean that in the most sincerely loving way) has managed to infect a pretty large portion of the world at this point. To be honest, it seems like they’re popping out everything. Pretty much where there’s air to breathe, there’s a group of […]
Tags: 2022, Osmose Productions, Review, Steve K, Terrorhammer
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, December 1st, 2022
At Teeth of the Divine, we all have our own individual tastes and personal preferences when it comes to metal – a point which has, unfortunately, led to some words we wish we hadn’t said and no shortage of blood left on each of our hands. Literally. We’ve made some… mistakes… ANYWAY, one thing that […]
Tags: 2022, Heavy Metal, Morgana, Napalm Records, Power Metal, Steve K, Warkings
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, November 21st, 2022
I struggle to think of another band revered with such legendary status as Candlemass has within the pantheons of Heavy Metal, with as strange and unorthodox a journey as theirs over their almost 40 year career. The breakups, reformations and seemingly endless string of cryptic hints at retirement, the rotating lineup of ex-members entering and […]
Tags: 2022, Candlemass, Doom Metal, Epic Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K, Sweet Evil Sun
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
2022 has been quite the year for Hoaxed. While maybe not a meteoric rise, per se, the virtually unknown Portland duo – armed with only a 4 song self-titled EP to their name – landed a surprise rotation on tour earlier this year with Amorphis, Uada and Sylvaine which, when you hear the band for the first […]
Tags: 2022, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Hoaxed, Post-Metal, Relapse Records, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
Remember being 17 or 18 years old and thinking you knew everything? And yet, in the same breath, somehow you often found yourself not knowing what the fuck you were doing at all? Equal parts cock-sure confidence and complete naivete. The truth, for most of us, is that when you’re that age, you’re still just […]
Tags: 2022, Black Lion Records, Blackened Thrash, Progressive Thrash, Sarcator, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 28th, 2022
Sometimes you stumble across an album that you just know is going to either be a complete and utter hit, or an absolute whiff from listener to listener – there will be no in-between. You either love it like you love your own child, or you want to throw it off a cliff like a […]
Tags: 2022, Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, Proto Metal, Sordid Blade, Steve K, Traditional Heavy Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Vengeance is a dish best served heavy. And melodic. And epic. OK, I guess I shouldn’t assume “vengeance” as being the first emotion that would come to mind for former Absu guitarist Melissa Moore, who is jumping back into the spotlight after a very ugly and public firing from the band following her coming out […]
Tags: 2022, Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, NEOTHM, Sonja, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, October 14th, 2022
There are lots of men and women out there in the world whose sexual proclivities lie on the more, let’s say “extreme” side of things. In particular, there are people all around the world who fantasize about, if not actively seek out sexual partners (singular, or many at once!) who will oblige their innate craving […]
Tags: 2022, Choke, Death Grind, Death Metal, Grindcore, Steve K, Translation Loss Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 7th, 2022
OK so we’ve got, like, 3 months left of 2022? So who knows what can happen between now and then, but whatever. I’m calling it. Blood Empire is the most fun you’re gonna get out of just 4 songs this year. This thing is a goddamn blast. I need more ASAP. Of course, anyone who’s […]
Tags: 2022, Gates of Hell Records, Heavy Metal, Skelator, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
I’m just gonna go ahead and set all my clocks back by like, I dunno, 20 or 25 years? Etsy has LOTS of Princess Diana calendars from 1998 available, so I’m well covered there. I hear JNCO jeans are sorta a thing again? So much denim. The reason for all this turn-of-the-21st-century behavior? MELODEATH IS […]
Tags: 2022, Brymir, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
I dunno about you, but I love the defiant underdog. There’s just something super compelling about someone or something staring in the face of inevitable defeat and devastation, and flipping it the double-birds because “go fuck yourself that’s why.” I admire the hell out of that spirit. To that end, one of history’s most chronicled […]
Tags: 2022, Defacing God, Extreme Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K