Album Reviews
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Reviews
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Album Review: CLUTCH – Book of Bad Decisions
Once again Lovelies, CLUTCH keeps their handshake promise with fans to put out new music as Weathermaker Records releases the…
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Album Review: THE SPIRIT – Sounds From The Vortex
All fans of classic 1990s European Black/Death Metal should take notice of The Spirit who have just recently released their…
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Album Review: BAEST – Danse Macabre
Perhaps living at the epicenter of the oncoming mega-storm hurricane looming along the coast, spiraling to bring doom to all…
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Album Review: Integrity/Krieg – Split EP
Seeing this release, I instantly connected knowing it had to be covered. Integrity helped write the book on metallic Hardcore. …
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Album Review: DRAGHKAR – The Endless Howling Abyss
When thinking of underground brutal old school Death Metal, one probably does not first list Los Angeles. Despite this fact,…
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Album Review: BLACK COFFEE – Take One
I have to be honest with you my sweet snickerdoodles, when I heard the intro of the first song I…
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Album Review: OBSCURA – Diluvium
Obscura is a Progressive Death Metal band from Germany. Founded in 2002 by guitarists/vocalist Steffen Kummerer, the band have just…
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Album Review: PHOENIX RISING – Ignite
I believe in fate, kismet, if you will. So, when I stumbled a crossed the email from this bands publicist…
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Album Review: IMMORTAL – Northern Chaos Gods
Rejoice for the fact that one of the most brilliant yet savage bands from 27 years ago has released an…
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Album Review: EPICA – Attack On Titan
When this album was announced by Nuclear Blast, I was extremely intrigued by the entire concept of the record. With…
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Album Review: BEGAT THE NEPHILIM – I: The Surreptitious Prophecy/Mother of the Blasphemy
Begat the Nephilim are relative newcomers to the land of signed acts and international press. Formed in 2012, the band…
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Album Review: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE – Gravity
Since the release of the band’s debut record The Poison all the way back in 2005, Welsh quartet Bullet For…
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Album Review: MADBALL – For The Cause
Growing up, classic Heavy Metal such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and W.A.S.P. served as my primary education into heavy…
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Album Review: GROW RICH – Senen Lempuyangan
Grow Rich is a one-man project catalyzed by Abdur Rahim Latada in late 2016. Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia, Latada, nicknamed…
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Album Review: BURN THE PRIEST – Legion: XX
Time flies. It doesn’t seem nearly twenty years ago since first acquiring the self-titled release by a band from Richmond,…
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Album Review: CANDLEMASS – House of Doom
When one thinks of Doom Metal, the first band that immediately pops into one’s mind nine times out of ten…
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Album Review: SKOGEN – Skuggorna Kallar
Skogen (in English: Forest) is a Swedish Black Metal band that has recently released their fifth full-length entitled Skuggorna Kallar…
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Album Review: WITCH CASKET – Hatred Index
While one certainly cannot complain about the popularity and sheer enormity of the Metal scene these days compared to the…
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Album Review: AMORPHIS – Queen of Time
In 1994, I was a sophomore in high school with two years’ experience as a bass player and practically a…
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Album Review: BAD WOLVES – Disobey
LA-based metal band BAD WOLVES are ballers. Metal ballers that is. The five-piece exploded onto the rock scene with their…