Category: Reviews
Draconian – SOVRAN Review
For reasons I won’t get into here, it’s been a long month. Trials and tribulations; personal and professional; trivial and major – you know the type. So it was with a bit of resignation that …
Dead To A Dying World – Litany Review
One of the things that seems most consistently difficult to understand for people who don’t particularly like heavy metal is just how it is that it can be soothing and meditative. And certainly, if you …
Die Choking – III Review
I have a to-do list that I keep on my phone – y’know, because I’m, like, organized and stuff – and on it, in addition to whatever stupid tasks I must complete in order to …
Sepulcher – Mausoleum Tapestry Review
Well, I guess there’s something to be said for mystery, right? Whether intentionally or not, Norway’s Sepulcher is doing everything it can to remain obscure. There’s virtually no information available on them, no names, no …
My Dying Bride – Feel The Misery Review
If I were the type of person who worried about “guilty pleasures” (I am not) or whether some thing I enjoy will set me up for ridicule (I am not), I might have to admit …
Denner / Sherman – Satan’s Tomb Review
As the story goes, former Mercyful Fate guitarists Michael Denner and Hank Shermann got together a few times in the past couple years to record YouTube videos celebrating the thirtieth anniversaries of Mercyful Fate’s first …
Captain Cleanoff – Rising Terror Review
I’m about six months behind on writing this one, and at one point, I figured I’d just end up consigning Rising Terror to some kind of “great albums we missed” write-up yet to come, but …
Stryper – Fallen Review
When I was a kid in the late 80s, when heavy metal was still scary to me and to most of the world, I wore out a cassette of Stryper’s Soldiers Under Command. That album …