Posts Tagged ‘Erik T’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Talk about a match made in heaven…….Switzerland’s Stortregn, a formerly pure 90s melodic black metal band turned more technical, surgical, shredding death metal with some of their black metal remnants left behind, on The Artisan Era, arguably the flagship label for this style with bands like Inferi, Demon King, Enfold Darkness and such. I’ve reviewed […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Stortregn, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
I have not heard a lot from Innerstrength Records in the last few years, but back in the heyday of deathcore/ metalcore I dug some of their releases from the likes of The Storm, Shallow Water Grave, I Killed Everyone and such, but have not heard anything from them in a while. S0 when I […]
Tags: 2021, Basilica, Erik T, Innerstrength Records, mathcore, Metalcore, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, February 26th, 2021
Sometimes I like my black metal delivered in epic, rangy long albums like say Kjeld’s latest offering, Harakiri For the Sky’s vast double album or Utbyrd’s majestic foray. But sometimes I like my black metal in short sharp, icy bursts, like the debut EP, from New Finnish black metal duo Sarvekas, which is a perfect […]
Tags: 2020, Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Sarvekas, Soulseller Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
So first up, here is your early contender for the year’s most unreadable logo, right? I’m new to California’s Aylwin, though they have a pretty good amount of demos, Eps and splits under their belt since 2012, But the promotional email had buzz words like Alda, Ameseours, Wolves In The Throne Room, and ‘nature-centric atmospheric […]
Tags: 2021, Atmospheric Black Metal, Aylwin, Erik T, Pacific Threnodies, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, February 15th, 2021
I’m embarrassed to say I’m new to this Austrian atmospheric/post-black metal duo and their 4 prior albums, despite some familiarity with their previous band, Viking/Pagan themed black metal act, Bifrost. It appears to be a criminal oversight on my part, as I delved into the band’s back catalog to prepare for this review and the duo […]
Tags: 2021, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Harakiri For The Sky, Post-Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Someone really wants to be on The Artisan Era. I mean, look at that logo, cover and the music fits the label perfectly being a shreddy melodic form of polished, surgical, blackened, technical death metal that’s in line with the likes of Inferi and such. At that someone is Ric Galvez, who plays all the […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Malice Divine, Melodic Black Metal, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
With some promotional tag lines stating this was ‘Extreme Finnish Symphonic Metal’, I grabbed this promo right away as anything symphonic’ gets my attention, and I had never heard of this band before, so a new find in the genre is always a positive. And I’m glad I did, this is really good stuff. The […]
Tags: 2021, Abstrakt, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Inverse Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
I grabbed this promo based on 2 things; 1) the fact it’s on the UKs Clobber Records, who released the excellent Argesk debut last year, and 2) I’m still on my melodic/atmospheric black metal kick from 2020 that comprised of over half of my year-end list. Norfolk’s (not too far from my old Fenny stomping […]
Tags: 2021, And Now The Owls Are Smiling, Atmospheric Black Metal, Clobber Records, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Pnuema Hagion (Greek for Holy Spirit) is a duo ‘R’ on all instruments and vocals and Shane Elwell on drums) from Texas that have been around a while in acts like Amateur Podiatry, Covered in Flies, Endless Disease, Excantation, Flesh Consumed, Intestinal Disgorge, Liquid Viscera and others. they have a pretty good number of demos, […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Pnuema Hagion
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
Wisconsin based, metal collaboration (Shroud of Despondency‘s Rory Heikkila, Khazaddum’s Luka Đorđević and Enabler’s Brian Serzynski), Prezir (Serb-Croatian for ‘contempt’) is back with album number 2 after dropping a vicious little ep in 2017 and a solid full length debut on 2018 and the now trio, appears to really have further honed in on a […]
Tags: 2020, Black Metal, Erik T, Prezir, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
I’m always up for some 90s styled Symphonic black metal, and Sweden’s Svartghast is up to the task with their solid, if by the numbers debut, Perdition. Not surprising when you consider one half of the duo is G. Johansson/Choronzon who has served in the likes of Setherial, Impious, and Torchbearer. The formula is pretty simple […]
Tags: 2020, Dusktone, Erik T, Review, Svartghast, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, December 17th, 2020
At face value, Finland’s Worthless play Swedish styled death metal. They have HM 2 sounding guitars (though not overbearing), gruff, rough vocals and cantankerous, galloping riffs. But if you take a deeper dive (and take into account the band moniker and album title) in the band’s second full length, you get a little more nuanced […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Swedish, Worthless
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, December 17th, 2020
I have not heard Germany’s Dehuman Reign since I reviewed their debut EP, Destructive Intent, back in 2013. They released an album Ascending From Below back in 2016, but based on album number 3, not much has changed since the EP, as this is stout American death metal for fans of Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity and […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Dehuman Reign, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, December 14th, 2020
Listen, I fully understand the hate for Hatebreed. Past their influential debut, they have been responsible for popularizing ‘hardcore’ and making it more commercial, and putting it in malls and on MTV. But there is no denying their chest-beating anthemic take on ‘bro-core’ has been the rallying cry for a generation and more than likely […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, Hardcore, hatebreed, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, December 11th, 2020
Ho hum, another Rogga Johansson project… what’s that, 246 bands now? Though to be fair, of his many many bands, I find Revolting to be one of his better efforts, especially the 3 album run of The Terror Threshold, In Grisly Rapture and Hymns of Ghastly Horror. The last of which, was the last Revolting […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Revolting, Swedish, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, December 11th, 2020
Oreamnos (a kind of goat apparently?) is the new project from former partners in New York’s Weverin, Matt Schott (also from Valdur and Sxuperion) on drums and vocals, and Sam ‘the harp’ on guitar and bass. And while I have not heard any of Weverin’s considerably obscure discography, I am somewhat familiar with the Valdur […]
Tags: 2020, Bloody Mountain Records, Death Metal, Erik T, Oreamnos, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, December 4th, 2020
Ohio’s Redefining Darkness Records is turning into a solid little US-based death metal label with some really good releases and bands under their belt. They have also unleashed some impressive Swedish death styled metal gems such as Angerot, Tombstoner, In Shadows and Dust, Wretched Fate, Pyre Wombripper and Sentient Horror. Well, add Tampa Bay’s Carnal […]
Tags: 2020, Carnal Ruin, Death Metal, Erik T, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, Swedish
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, December 4th, 2020
I rather enjoyed the debut from Israel’s Scardust, The Sands of Time. It was a more progressive, Dream Theater tinged, complex take on the standard Delain/Epica style of female-fronted symphonic metal. It was highlighted by guitarist Yadin Moyal, vocalist Noa Gruman and young keyboardist/orchestral arranger, Alex Nichola. And once again on another concept/story themed metal […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, M-Theory Audio, Power/Progressive Metal, Review, Scardust, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, November 27th, 2020
“FFO Oathbreaker, Fall of Efrafa, Amenra, Downfall of Gaia, etc” Oh, you clever sons of bitches. THAT’S how you get my attention when it comes to promo emails. Heck, why not just throw in Tragedy to boot as well as, BJs, steaks, guns and the New Orleans Saints to top it off???? But unlike about […]
Tags: Crust, Erik T, Kiova, Off Records/Maniyax Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, November 20th, 2020
My Dying Bride‘s 2020 album, The Ghosts of Orion, was an Ok release, not the best of the legendary UK doom act’s third act (yey growls!), but still a decent MDB release, with 3 or so really strong songs, which is always a good thing. So to keep us entertained during these covid times, the […]
Tags: 2020, Doom Metal, Erik T, Gothic, My Dying Bride, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, November 13th, 2020
There’s not a lot of info out there right now on Stormkeep (a D & D, Forgotten Realms thing apparently), but I knew as I saw the words ‘triumphant’, ‘epic’ and ‘melodic’ as well as the renowned JRR Tolkein artist Ian Miller cover art (who also graces one of my favorite other EPs ever, Abigor’s […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, Review, Stormkeep, Symphonic Black Metal, Van Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, November 9th, 2020
There are two veteran, bigger, supergroup -ish acts vying for this autumn’s top, high profile Swedish death metal release; the second effort from LIK (featuring Niklas Sundin of Katatonia) and the sixth album from Demonical, featuring current and former members of Centinex, Grave and others). And the clear winner is Demonical. I really enjoyed 2018s […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Death Metal, Demonical, Erik T, Review, Swedish
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Theoretically, for this review, I feasibly should just be able to say ‘If you like Bolt Thrower, seriously, just get this’ and be done with it. It should be that simple, especially after 3 albums and a slew of singles/splits and eps. However I’ve been in communication with guitarist Anders Biazzi for a few years […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Just Before Dawn, Raw Skull Recordz, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, November 2nd, 2020
I don’t think there is any argument when it comes to the upper pantheons of early/mid 90s doom ( the gothic/funeral doom style). The holy British trinity of My Dying Bride, Anathema and Paradise Lost are the clear top acts of the style and era- but what bout that slightly below elite, second tier- ( […]
Tags: 2020, Burning World Records, Celestial Season, Doom Metal, Erik T, Review
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