Testament – Brotherhood Of The Snake Review
Like my beloved Overkill, Testament has been on a recent uptick across their last few records. After a seven-year lay-off, they returned in 2008 with a barnstormer in Formation Of Damnation, and then followed it …
Colombian Necktie – All Paths Lead To Nowhere Review
Colombian Necktie’s first album – 2014’s Twilight Upon Us – was a decent enough little blast of sludgy hardcore, but not one that held a lot of staying power for me. There’s always potential in …
Helcaraxe – The Last Battle Review
New Jersey’s Helcaraxe was already one of the US’ most promising (and least heralded) death metal acts when they dropped Red Dragon in 2012, but that album’s masterful melding of the melodic and the muscular …
Them – Sweet Hollow Review
You like King Diamond? Of course you do. International metal collective Them also likes King Diamond. They like him quite a lot. So yes, they’re named after King’s best album (feel free to debate me …
Johansson & Speckmann – Edge Of The Abyss Review
“If two journeymen journey enough, at some point, they will inevitably journey together…” — an ancient Chinese proverb that I just made up Johansson & Speckmann is the rather uncreatively named pairing of death metal …
Warfather – The Grey Eminence Review
Warfather’s debut, 2014’s Orchestrating The Apocalypse, wasn’t exactly the grand re-entrance Steve Tucker deserved. After fronting Morbid Angel through three albums – two of which are stellar, and one of which is certainly solid enough, …
Nuclear Holocaust – Overkill Commando Review
Overkill Commando is the debut full-length from this pack of Polish punk-grinders, after a 2014 demo and last year’s four-way split with Hell United, Cemetery Whore, and the wonderfully named Necrosodomistical Slaughter. In both instances, …
Vicious Rumors – Concussion Protocol Review
American power metal institution Vicious Rumors hits the dozen mark with this latest full-length, thirty-one years after their classic debut on 1985’s Soldiers Of The Night. Now as then, the band straddles the line between …