Pasadena Napalm Division – PND Review
With legendary crossover pioneers DRI back in action but as a touring outfit only, vocalist Kurt Brecht joined forces with three-quarters of Texas thrashers Dead Horse and the bassist from Angkor Wat (since replaced by …
Gorgatron – Torturetorium Review
Despite that they share a name with a character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Fargo’s Gorgatron doesn’t seem to embrace the same silly humor. As near as I can tell on the humor front, Torturetorium …
Iron Fire – Metalmorphosized Review
Get a load of that album art, will ya? There’s a robot knight waving a flaming horned helmet and holding a creepy-looking sword, standing at the edge of a menacing spiked bridge that leads across …
Accept – Blood Of The Nations Review
Nearly fifteen years have elapsed since the last Accept record. That one, 1996’s Predator, was weak, unfocused and easily among the band’s worst. In the period after Predator, Accept split up, then reformed and released …
Serenity Dies – Hacksawcracy Review
The Maldives is a small and scattered nation in the Indian Ocean, comprised of two chains of islands and atolls running north to south in roughly parallel lines—it lies approximately 500 miles southwest of the …
Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion Review
Invidious – adj; “calculated to create ill will or cause offense, hateful”; “offensively or unfairly discriminating, injurious.” To a fan of classic death metal, this Dominion doesn’t create ill will, nor is it offensive, but …
Colossus – Drunk On Blood Review
In today’s world, everything old is new again. In a day when the biggest movies are based upon forty-year-old comic books or twenty-year-old television shows, that adage seems truer than ever. In the metal world …