Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Did you know Darkest Hour was still together? I didn’t. I mean the last thing I reviewed by them was 2009s The Eternal Return. They have released 2 albums since then with 2014s self-titled effort and 2017s Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, I own apparently but lord knows I could not tell you when […]
Tags: 2024, Darkest Hour, Erik T, Metalcore, MNRK Heavy, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Good Lord, it’s been 21 years since I heard this Greek blackened-sludge band’s debut, …and Voices, Words, Faces, Complete the Dream way back in 2003. It was, and still is one of the more caustic, brittle, and downright nasty albums I have ever covered, especially vocally. I guess the band has dropped 2 other albums […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Review, Sludge Metal, Sun of Nothing, Venerate Industries
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
There’s a saying in my part of the good ol’ USA. “Raise hell, praise Dale!” I’m certain it’s used countrywide, but I believe my area, particularly a couple hours away from where I was born, probably has a trademark on it. I’m certain there’s no question it’s regarding Dale Earnhardt, or “The Intimidator.” Decals on […]
Tags: 2024, I Am the Intimidator, J Mays, Miserable Pyre, Review, Speed Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
What’s the heaviest band you’ve ever heard? Sunn O)))? Black Sabbath? Electric Wizard? I’m talking about music that is slower than a Sloth crossing a road. Dooooom! But where Mudshow is concerned… they mix into their music spoken word poetry from Arthur Rimbaud’s ‘A Season in Hell’ which [successfully] creates a foreboding atmosphere. This is […]
Tags: 2024, Death/Doom Metal, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Jeremy Beck, Mudshow, Review, Sludge Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
I don’t pretend to know much about the Cuban metal scene. Let alone the Cuban Symphonic Black Metal scene. But when I saw this promo for Symphonic Black Metal pop-up, I checked it out, and it has turned into one of those ‘buy everything the band has released’ affairs. This is the band’s debut from […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Records, Erik T, Mephisto, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, March 18th, 2024
So here is a reunion I’m not sure anyone was really clamoring for. Fall of Serenity came up with fellow Germans Heaven Shall Burn, releasing their first material on a split with HSB in 1999. They released four albums between 2001-2007 that all delivered the same sort of metalcore/hardcore/melo death sound (although their debut was […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Erik T, Fall of Serenity, Lifeforce Records, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, March 18th, 2024
Judas Priest will go down as one of the greatest Heavy Metal bands of all time – without a shadow of a doubt. This is the first time for me reviewing a Priest album and I am excited to do so. I will say this….sometimes I get overly excited reviewing some of my favorite bands. […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Judas Priest, Review, Sony Music
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, March 15th, 2024
After a solid career that saw TLTSOL emerge as a solid upper-tier US deathcore act with 6 albums, guitarist Wyatt McLaughlin saw his band gutted back in 2022. He rebuilt TLTSOL and delivered a solid EP, The Disquisition of an Execution in 2023 to get the new lineup greased up and ready for what was to […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Toronto Canada’s tech deathsters Apogean make their debut with Cyberstrictive. Vocalist Mac Smith filled in for Bill Robinson of Decrepit Birth recently. Off the bat, Zach Ohren’s (The Faceless, All Shall Perish, Immolation, etc.) mixing and Mastering work is elite. Things get kicked off with “Blue Night Sonata.” The technical prowess of these guys is […]
Tags: Apogean, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Lutharo: A timeline, Tarantino style. Rewind to November of 2023 and I happened to see Paladin was to play at one of my favorite venues, Westside Bowl in Youngstown, OH. I gazed upon the digital flyer and saw Lutharo would be headlining. I remembered the band name, thinking someone at this site had reviewed them […]
Tags: 2024, Atomic Fire Records, J Mays, Lutharo, Melodic Black Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
There is one single reason I checked out the promo for the debut from this new Italian Black/Death metal project and that is the stunning artwork from the band guitarist Astahrot. My gosh that is killer- for the love of god, put that on a shirt, please! Now onto the music. Keres plays a relentless […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Gruesome Records, Keres, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, March 11th, 2024
International supergroup Vltimas released a killer debut in 2019, Something Wicked Marches In, which I reviewed and gave high praises of their stamp on blackened death metal. One of the many things going for that debut was how damn catchy it was – I still listen to that sucker! The same members return with Flo […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Season of Mist, Vltimas
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, March 8th, 2024
I’m an Albuquerque native, I’ve lived in New Mexico, specifically the Albuquerque area for the better part of my life, which makes me a local. The scene here is stronger than ever before, having been blessed by bands like Unearth, Infested Corpse, Laughing Dog, Manias and Smashed Hands. To the new generation of bangers with […]
Tags: 2024, Feed the Corpses to the Pigs, Grindcore, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, March 7th, 2024
I reviewed Ministry’s 14th album Moral Hygiene in 2021, on here and really enjoyed it….a lot and now Hopiumforthemasses, their 15th album-wow, is here and sees Al Jourgensen incorporating elements from all the various Ministry eras on here…That’s right. There are moments going all the way back to their 1983 With Sympathy debut album, which […]
Tags: 2024, Alternative Metal, Frank Rini, Industrial Metal, Ministry, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
On its surface, the third album from this German solo act doesn’t seem like a very “Prosthetic Records’ styled release. It’s a synth and choir-drenched slab of European melodic death/power metal in the vein of Ensiferum, Wintersun, Brymir, and such. But then I remember Prosthetic Records has released two albums from Foretoken. The gentleman at […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Far Beyond, Melodic Death Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Gotta give credit where it’s due – Finland’s purveyors of thrashy ermine mayhem, Necro Weasel, really hit the nail on the head when it comes to their chosen moniker. If you caught my review of the band’s 2022 offering, Never Again, I made mention of many of the reasons Weasels are not to be fucked with, including their […]
Tags: 2024, Crossover Metal, Foxhole Productions, Necro Weasel, Review, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, March 4th, 2024
I don’t know if Ihsahn’s new album qualifies for one of my most anticipated of 2024 because I received the (streaming-only) promo slightly before it came out. It still hit me out of nowhere. I will confess to being a fan, but his solo works haven’t done much for me on the last few records. […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Ihsahn, J Mays, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, March 1st, 2024
If you fell asleep at the end of 2023 then you would have missed up-and-coming band Red Vinter’s We Built Our Own Death Machine demo, which literally dropped, right before 2024. While it’s a demo, any release that drops at the end of a year is dead in the water, so to speak. The band […]
Tags: 2023, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Red Vinter, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 29th, 2024
While power and black metal was/has often been the primary vehicles for keyboards/ orchestration in metal, I still fondly recall some of my early exposure to more epic keys and orchestration (not just intros or a bit here or there for atmosphere) in death metal such as Nocturnus (arguably the first to do so?), Amorphis, […]
Tags: 2024, Amputated Vein Records, Erik T, Review, Spiritual Deception, Symphonic Metal, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Wisconsin’s thrash metal band Morbid Saint were around in the 80’s-early 90’s before they disbanded and then reformed in 2010. The band’s rise in popularity was bolstered in 2016, thanks to the 2CD reissue/remaster of the band’s 1990 classic debut Spectrum of Death, and their 1992 follow-up Destruction System, which was never released until 2015. […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, High Roller Records, Morbid Saint, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, February 26th, 2024
It’s been ten years since we last heard from Job For A Cowboy, so let me give a cliffnotes back story: the band is one of the first deathcore bands to blow up thanks to a Spongebob Squarepants video mash-up to the song “Knee Deep” (it is how I first heard the band- and it’s […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Job For A Cowboy, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Stellar Remains is an entirely new venture by Dan Elkin. I’ve scoured the web trying to find more info, but all I have is from the promo materials, so pardon my ignorance. The record label, Gutter Prince Cabal, has only recently appeared on my radar thanks to Fryktelig Stoy. I am forever grateful for them […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Gutter Prince Cabal, J Mays, Review, Stellar Remains
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
It’s early days in 2024, but German newcomers Acrid Death (though with veteran members of other bands like All Its Grace, Driven by Entropy, and Synchronic) along with Ceremonial Death (on their split EP with Unformulas) look to be frontrunners for 2024s best HM2/Swedish death metal guitar tone. Fans of Entrails take fucking note here, […]
Tags: 2024, Acrid Death, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Rising Nemesis Records, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Originally released last year on Oregon’s Headsplit Records, the debut from Spanish trio Apparation has been reissued by Germany stalwart label, FDA Records less than a year later, a testament to how FDA Records views Apparition. So the old-school cover should give it away, but Apparition (featuring ex and current members of Ataraxy, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid, […]
Tags: 2024, Apparition, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, February 19th, 2024
Wisconsin’s best death metal band returns with their seventh full-length album Creation Undone. With mainman Axe Grinder and vocalist Dave Gregor fronting the band, they are on fire on this album. And I do want to get something out of the way right now. I really do not care how album covers are created – […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Morta Skuld, Peaceville Records, Review