Category: Reviews
Syven – Aikaintaite Review
When a musical work evokes the weight of natural processes in geologic time, it inevitably exposes impotence in the words used to describe it. Allowing for the difficulty of the written word to reach back …
RAM – Death Review
originally written by Chris McDonald While the retro trend has been most visible in the thrash and death metal genres, it hasn’t ignored traditional heavy and speed metal by any means. Swedish collective RAM aims …
Mpire Of Evil – Hell To The Holy
Mpire of Evil is a super-group of sorts, composed of former Venom members, the most notable of which is Jeff “Mantas” Dunn, Venom’s founding guitarist, who has been off the metal radar since leaving that band over …
Metallica – Beyond Magnetic Review
Metallica just doesn’t understand how to stay in our good graces. By most accounts, 2008’s Death Magnetic was a very long-awaited return to form for the Biggest Metal Band in the World. The production was a …
UFO – Seven Deadly Review
I won’t take another opportunity to mention how underrated UFO is in the history of hard rock and how you should totally check them out, unless I do it in some sort of back-handed, surreptitious …
Pallbearer – Sorrow & Extinction Review
On the strength of a three-song demo from 2010, Little Rock, Arkansas’s Pallbearer quickly became one of the most talked-about names in metal’s catty, cantankerous underground. Fast-forward a year and a half or so, and …
Swallow The Sun – Emerald Forest And The Blackbird Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Swallow the Sun doesn’t really commit to one genre, and since that’s pretty typical of most metal nowadays, it makes it difficult for StS to stand out from the blended …
Christian Mistress – Possession Review
This review has been kicking my ass for weeks now. Not entirely unheard of, to be sure, but this time around it’s proved a pretty damnable little dilemma because I know exactly how I feel …