Album Reviews
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Reviews
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Album Review: TOTAL HATE – Throne Behind A Black Veil
Black Metal has roots deeply burrowed in the catacombs of the history of musical evolution. Some 200 years ago, Europeans…
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Album Review: BLOODY HAMMERS – The Summoning
A shadow descends over the winding landscape beneath the dominating mountains as a solitary, bloated cloud boldly makes its way…
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Album Review: CLEMENS WIJERS – Parasite Twin
Clemens “Ardek” Wijers is best known as the keyboardist for Netherlands metal trio Carach Angren. Given the success of his…
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Album Review: MEMORIAM – Requiem for Mankind
Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV…
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Album Review: ITHEIST – Itheist
It seems the lines between Black and Death Metal have blurred yet again. To call Itheist a Blackened Death Metal…
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Album Review: VULTURE – Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
Like a nuclear reactor explosion – shamelessly watching HBO’s Chernobyl has crept into my subconscious – Vulture‘s new full-length erupts…
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Album Review: DEATH ANGEL – Humanicide
Kirk Hammett. Gary Holt. Chuck Billy. With names such as the above proliferating the scene, one would be hard-pressed to…
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Album Review: LVCIFYRE – Sacrament
At some point, every Metal fan has come to the precipice where the band just discovered is the real deal,…
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Album Review: POSSESSED – Revelations of Oblivion
Back in 1983, when the Crüe were shouting at the devil, Jeff Becerra and company were enlisting the dark lord…
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Album Review: KAMPFAR – Ofidians Manifest
It has literally been twenty years since my first exposure to KAMPFAR. I reviewed their sophomore effort, Fra Underverdenen, and…
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Album Review: STELLAR MASTER ELITE – Hologram Temple
It seems that all life really is about is learning how to accept change, or at least put on the…
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Album Review: ELUVEITIE – Ategnatos
There was a time when combining folk music with metal was one of the most genius innovations to be introduced…
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Album Review: DEVIN TOWNSEND – Empath
Devin Townsend. What more can be said about this avant-garde, pioneer of progress? From his beginnings singing with Steve Vai…
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Album Review: FEN – Stone and Sea
Personally, I’ve always been drawn to the music in which I can get lost. Eerie sounds, dreamscapes, and hallucinatory psychedelia…
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Album Review: MISERY INDEX – Rituals of Power
Death Metal is huge once again. Seeing the evolution and subsequent peaks and valleys – the late 90s being a…
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Album Review: DEAD GIRLS CORP- Bloody Noses and Hand Grenades
I recently read somewhere that Industrial music was passé and irrelevant. I wish I could remember where I read that…
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Album Review: BLACK ANVIL – Miles
If one was to survey the annals of Heavy Metal history, scanning for the bands that made the largest impact,…
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Album Review: GATEKEEPER – Grey Maiden
Jeff Black, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist, started Gatekeeper in 2009 as a solo project. The band’s core roots include…
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Album Review: UNGRAVEN – Language of Longing
Most know Jon Davis as the front man for über-elite Doom outfit Conan. Since that band formed back in 2006…
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Album Review: RUSH – Rush In Rio – (Vinyl Edition)
Rush in Rio was a release that I invested in when it was originally released back in 2003. At that…