Category: Reviews
Alraune – The Process Of Self-Immolation Review
Your affinity for The Process of Self-Immolation, the debut full-length from Nashville’s Alraune, may depend on your tolerance for genre traditionalists tinkering at the margins by melding together styles of black metal that don’t often …
Overkill – White Devil Armory Review
Overkill had a good thing going. After becoming one of the top bands of the 80s thrash movement, they settled into a career as flag-bearers. Their albums from the early 90s on have all been …
Grave Digger – Return Of The Reaper Review
Grave Digger is as Grave Digger does. With Return Of The Reaper, as with any new Grave Digger album, the primary musical template has been long established. Fitting in the cracks between Accept, Blind Guardian, …
Necrophagist – Epitaph Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Necrophagist is a name that has stirred up a lot of underground buzz in recent years, due in large part to their highly acclaimed debut Onset of Putrefaction, and the …
Children Of Technology – Future Decay Review
Sometimes, a guy needs to turn his brain switch firmly to the “off” position. While there is no shortage of music to fit such times (pretty sure Judas Priest just released a song called “Metalizer”), …
Judas Priest – Redeemer Of Souls Review
Redeemer Of Souls is Judas Priest’s best album in nearly 25 years. Reeling from the near-universal disdain for the ambitious Nostradamus, Redeemer is straightforward, the sound of Priest returning to form, cherry-picking stylistic highlights from …
Terminal Death – Terminal Death Review
Shadow Kingdom Records, as is becoming habit, has dug up some more obscure 80s recordings and given them the spiffy reissue treatment. This time around beneficiary is Chicago death metal outfit Terminal Death, whose entire …
Nidsang – Into The Womb Of Dissolving Flames Review
Black metal, with all of its offshoots, movements, and ideologies, lends itself to some creative descriptions. The easiest way to describe Sweden’s Nidsang on sophomore effort Into the Womb of Dissolving Flames? A violent churn. …