TOAD – Endless Night Review
So this band is named TOAD, eh? That’s right, TOAD. Technically their name is an acronym for “Take Over And Destroy,” but these Phoenixites could easily have gone the command-as-band-name route and stuck with that. …
Civil War – The Killer Angels Review
In the interest of full disclosure, it must be stated that I had about zero interest in really giving the subject of this review much of a chance. After all, an album named The Killer …
Megadeth – Super Collider Review
As recently as 2009’s Endgame, Megadeth was a very good band. Perhaps not a great one, but it appeared as if fans were primed to enjoy a late career surge from Dave Mustaine that included …
Hell (US) – III Review
I can be a real dick. No doubt about it, I can be one serious dick sometimes, especially when one of my pet peeves causes me to immediately write off bands. First there is the …
Noisem – Agony Defined Review
Stickum: a sports adhesive intended to improve the grips of athletes on such devices as footballs, baseball bats, and vaulting poles. Noisem: a Baltimore-produced sound adhesive intended to affix itself to your mortal form before …
Blood Tsunami – For Faen! Review
Blood Tsunami gained a bit of instantaneous underground notoriety when they popped up with debut Thrash Metal in 2007, largely due to the inclusion of a post-prison Bard “Faust” Eithun picking up the drumsticks again …
Cathedral – The Last Spire Review
The legacy of Cathedral is a complicated one. On one hand, they largely influenced – and some say created – the doom/death style with debut Forest of Equilibrium. They also crafted a couple classics in …
Magister Templi – Lucifer Leviathan Logos Review
It might seem like a ludicrous notion, but a band can in fact sound completely unique without necessarily doing anything original. Some of the best restaurants might not have one original dish on the menu, …