Voetsek – Infernal Command Review
This co-ed bunch of crossover thrashers hails from San Francisco, and Infernal Command is their latest of two full-lengths to go along with a small slew of split records and EPs. This is my first …
Helms Alee – Night Terror Review
Helms Alee’s MySpace site sports the following biographical information, quoted here in its entirety: “We are a loud rock band.” Fair enough. I can’t—and I won’t—disagree with that, but I will say it could use …
Wastelander – Wardrive Review
Somewhere between Celtic Frost, Darkthrone, early Exodus, Amebix, and Sodom, Michigan’s Wastelander blend apocalyptic crust with a base of retro thrash and first-wave black metal, and damned if it doesn’t rock like hell, even if it …
Ironsword – Overlords Of Chaos Review
Ironsword hails from Portugal, and this is their third full-length release of epic METAL. (Ironsword is too METAL for lower-case letters.) Manilla Road comparisons abound, and they’re more than justified, as Ironsword evokes the METAL …
Eidulon – Idolatriae Review
I travel for a living, and as I was listening to this record, planning my angle of approach to this very review, I found myself on the road again, this time traveling through a particularly …
Anthrax – Oidivnikufesin (DVD) Review
Filmed live at London’s Hammersmith Odeon on the Among The Living tour, Oidivnikufesin (henceforth referred to as “Oidiv”) captures Anthrax at the creative peak of the 80s thrash wave, riding high on the success of …
Deeply Confused – Isolated Review
I’ll open the review with what you’re all already thinking: Deeply Confused is among the lamest band names I’ve heard of late. I’m sure they hear that quite a bit, although apparently not often enough …
Exodus – Let There Be Blood Review
Going into this without having heard a single one of these re-recorded versions of the Bonded By Blood classics, I was fairly certain this record didn’t need to exist. Like a lot of old farts, …