Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
Kentucky’s melodic black metal act, Volcandra, have benefitted from continuity and it helps when your line-up stays intact. Formed in 2018 Mike Hargrave (Drums), River Jordan/Jamie DeMar (Guitars) and Dave Palenske on cocals have stayed together since their 2020 impressive debut, Into the Azure. The album was released independently and it was not until getting […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Melodic Black Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review, Volcandra
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
Grindcore is one of those genres that’s pretty hard to fuck up. It’s pretty safe to say that Napalm Death are the creators and innovators of the genre and since their inception, countless numbers of Grindcore bands popped up in almost every country, Wormrot in Japan, Nasum from Sweden and Brutal Truth in the States […]
Tags: 2024, Grindcore, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Jeremy Beck, Kosuke Hashida, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Hailing from California The Dread Crew of Oddwood, still falls into the metal category, although they play a combination of Celtic and Folk music, all interwoven into the Heavy Metal universe, however, they do it without electric guitars/bass. Instrumentation ranges from the stand-up bass, mandolin, tin whistle, drums, and accordion, just to name a few […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Pira, Review, Self-Released, The Dread Crew of Oddwood
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
“It’s not the worst thing ever,” says the custodian as he scrapes all the dried cum from in and around the glory hole. I didn’t wish for him to elaborate, but by instinct, I said “Wouldn’t it be easier just to do it when it’s fresh?” He scowled and I received no answer. Foolishly, I […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review, Six Feet Under
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
Non Stop Ruthless Crushing …..what???? I feel like there’s another word that was forgotten here. Anxiety? Diarrhea? Parental disappointment? I keed, I keed What we have here is a re-release of a 2023 effort from this Texas act formed by Jason Ramsey (notably from Baton Rouge’s Suture, who released solid albums on Deepsend Records, Unmatched […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Skulldozer, Wormholedeath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D, Reviews › S on Friday, May 10th, 2024
Synestia is a new symphonic deathcore duo consisting of Minnesota’s Sam Melchior (all instruments, writing) and Finland’s Ville Hokkanen (vocals). In 2022 they released their fantastic debut album, Malificium, but it was digital only and got kind of bulldozed by that year’s slew of stellar releases in the genre from Shadow of Intent, Worm Shepherd, […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Disembodied Tyrant, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Synestia
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, May 10th, 2024
This certainly came out of nowhere. It’s an EP, not a new full-length, but new Necropanther is all I, and hopefully by extension, you need to know. Before really getting into the meat (dead panther meat, I guess) of the EP, this is exactly what I want from this medium. I’ve always thought of them […]
Tags: 2024, J Mays, Necropanther, Review, Self-Released, Speed/ Thrash Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Sweden’s Sarcasm returns with their fifth album Mourninghoul. Sarcasm plays a unique throwback style of classic Swedish Sound (Unanimated, Dawn, Early Gates of Ishtar, Early Desultory) mixed with moments of modern heaviness by bands like Morbid Angel. “As Northern Gates Opens” opens the album and I was hooked right away by the coldness of the […]
Tags: 2024, Hammerheart Records, Melodic Death Metal, Nick K, Review, Sarcasm
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
By now it’s not a secret that Finland spews out some incredible Black Metal. I could sit here and name check every band and that would be boring as fuck. I’m guilty of it, and since I realize that I’m excluded from persecution and it’s usually in my introduction where I pull that shit anyway. […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Reaper Entertainment, Review, Satanic North
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
Three years ago I reviewed the self-titled, debut album from California’s epic doom metal band Stygian Crown and really loved it. I was happy to see my friend, Rhett Davis, drumming on it, a legendary drummer from Crimson Relic, Morgion and Gravehill, and many other bands, both past and present. The original line-up with guitarists […]
Tags: 2024, Cruz Del Sur Music, Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Review, Stygian Crown
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, May 6th, 2024
Hailing from the Mid-Atlantic United States, Desolus formed prior to the beginning of the pandemic. I’ve known bass/vocalist Vivek Rangarajan for a number of years now seeing him at a number of shows in and around the MD/DC Metro area. I actually was able to see Desolus live last year and they tore it up […]
Tags: 2024, Desolus, Frank Rini, Hells Headbangers, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, May 6th, 2024
Listen, I was Korpiklaani fanboy for many years loving the band’s boozy folk metal anthems like “Beer, Beer” and “Happy Little Boozer”, but somewhere around 2008s Korven Kuningas up to 2015s Noita I started losing interest in the band and their albums. The band seemed to get a bit of a hangover, lose their fun […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Folk Metal, Korpiklaani, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 3rd, 2024
Atrae Bilis is a Canadian technical death metal band not involving Phillip Tougas. Technical death metal has a place in my heart, but it’s one of those genres that’s hit or miss. My standard bearer has been Obscura for several years. The band and the 1998 Gorguts album. The reason is because of excellent songs. […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Atrae Bilis, J Mays, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
The Greek mythology and the pantheon of gods has always fascinated me. From as long as I was able to read at a decent level I’ve loved the stories of Achilles, and after reading the Iliad I was hooked. So it’s no surprise that I have a soft spot for Greek Black Metal and the […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kawir, Review, Soulseller Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
I was a fan of Grey Sky Fallen’s last album, from 2020, Cold Dead Lands. I enjoyed their take on doom-death metal, alongside some progressive influences. I did not realize at the time the band had four prior albums, a plethora of EPs, and had been around since the 90’s. Molded by Broken Hands is […]
Tags: 2024, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Grey Skies Fallen, Profound Lore Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, April 29th, 2024
At first glance, album number 13 from one of death metal’s true institutions Deicide, appears to be yet another by-the-numbers Deicide album that Bentons (yes I used it as a verb), blasphemes and blasts its way through another effort of Christ-hating death metal. And to some extent it does. It is most certainly a Deicide […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Deicide, Erik T, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, April 26th, 2024
A new Witch Vomit offering is almost a holiday ‘round these parts. It wasn’t a question of IF it would be covered, but more of a question of who would be; Myself or Steve K. Surprisingly, he put up no fight. I’m glad for once we didn’t come to blows (not that kind you dirty […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Review, Witch Vomit
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, April 25th, 2024
During the total eclipse of the sun earlier this year, I wasn’t as stupid as most of the population seems to have been by looking at the sun, I admit to taking pictures of it. It was a bit magical, I had a bonfire going, and through no consequence at all I ended up listening […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Hacavitz, Jeremy Beck, Moribund Records, Review, Vomit Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Italian Technical Death Metallers Hour of Penance return with their ninth full-length record Devotion. I have been a fan of Hour of Penance since hearing their second full-length record Pageantry for Martyrs. Devotion gets kicked off with “Devotion of Tyranny” which reminds me a lot of their third album The Vile Conception. The guitar work […]
Tags: 2024, Agonia Records, Brutal Death Metal, Hour of Penance, Nick K, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
This spring, two US-based, keyboard-heavy, melodic death metal bands will be releasing their second albums respectively. One, Philadelphia’s Malphas with Portal (via M-Theory Audio), and this album from Seattle’s more old-school influenced Veriteras. And it’s not even close to who the winner is as The Dark Horizon is absolutely stunning. Part of my enjoyment of […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Veriteras
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, April 22nd, 2024
I have reviewed quite a lot of Pestilence albums on this site, as well as reviewing their various reissues multiple times and over the years I would consider main axe grinder/vocalist, Patrick Mameli, as a friend, with our various interactions. I respect his musical work and songwriting skills and many of the Pestilence albums I […]
Tags: 2024, Agonia Records, Frank Rini, Pestilence, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, April 19th, 2024
This Finnish power metal band has been around since the 90’s and I have seen their logo and ads for decades, however, I have never heard them until now, with Clear Cold Beyond which is their 14th album – holy smokes! After listening to their back catalog in order to compare this to their prior […]
Tags: 2024, Atomic Fire Records, Frank Rini, Power Metal, Review, Sonata Arctica
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, April 19th, 2024
4 years ago I reviewed the debut album, Decay from Glasgow’s Necrocracy and it was a rough and ready, solid release of no-frills, burly black metal. And then out of the blue, the band emails me and tells me about their new digital and cassette-only release they are dropping. So apparently the material on Predestiny […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Necrocracy, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Fun fact: This is the third intro I’ve written for my review of this album, all on different devices. I wasn’t satisfied, which is probably the story of my life and my exes’. I’m just going to mostly skip that part and go into the first track on Replicant’s new one, called “Acid Mirror.” Sharing […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Replicant, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › Z on Thursday, April 18th, 2024
The first time I heard Steve Moore was the soundtracks for Mayhem and The Mind’s Eye (2017 and 2016 respectively). Zombi is a collaboration between Moore and A.E. Paterra and I have taken a deep dive into their music since getting the promo for Direct Inject. Since their inception in 2001 they’ve released six studio […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Relapse Records, Review, Sythnwave, ZOmbi