Album Reviews
Death Angel – The Evil Divide
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read one of my reviews that I am a big fan of the Big 8. For those of you new to metal, the eight are [Read »]
Album Reviews
Headless – Melt the Ice Away
Göran Edman is the most known name in the line up of this Italian. Göran Edman, known from his vocals on albums with Yngwie Malmsteen of course. The music is hardrock/metal with a lot of melody [Read »]
Album of the Month
Whispered – Metsutan – Songs of the Void
My first encounter with Whispered was around the time they had just released┬áthe video for “Blindfold” to the world of the internet – off of their 2010 debut album “Thousand Swords“. They did not strike [Read »]
Album Reviews
Satyricon – Nemesis Divina (20th Anniversary Reissue)
With Satyricon releasing the landmark album “Nemesis Divina” in 1996, it was at a time of a black metal culture that was still rooted to a point in a minimalist ideal of staying true to [Read »]
Album Reviews
Hatebreed – The Concrete Confessional
The name Hatebreed evokes different emotions from different people. For people who don’t know the band, they feel negatively and assume they are about racial superiority and violence. However, those who know Hatebreed, know they [Read »]
Album Reviews
Mabachus – Petroglyph
My first foray into Mabachus came with late 2012’s “The Great Culling”. What immediately struck me about the Toronto quartet was their willingness to take chances and make something that wasn’t defined by a predominate [Read »]
Interviews
Interview with drummer Matt Byrne of HATEBREED
Hatebreed is a staple in the heavy music scene. They are on the verge of releasing a new album, The Concrete Confessional on May 13, 2016, and a major US tour. Thankfully, drummer Matt Byrne [Read »]
Album Reviews
Sun Of Gaia – Corrode
Sun Of Gaia, a new band out of Australia, are taking a stripped-down and mostly bare-bones approach to their songwriting with their debut EP “Corrode”. There’s no bells and whistles with this group. They stay [Read »]
Album Reviews
Genus Ordinis Dei – EP 2016
Symphonic elements in metal can lead to the spectacular (Dimmu Borgir), bright and powerful (Kamelot), or downright cheesy (Rhapsody, Rhapsody On Fire, Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody, Rhapsody 3.0, etc.). So with such a fine line to [Read »]
Album Reviews
Yurt – III Molluskkepokk
YURT is a band veiled in mysticism (at least that’s what their bio would lead you to believe), with the band members being referred to as “sonic elders”, and an agenda for “conducting experiments in [Read »]