Category: Reviews
Azarath – Blasphemers’ Maledictions Review
Long-running Polish death metal outfit Azarath has returned to bloody action with fifth album Blasphemers’ Maledictions. The sound may be quintessential Polish death metal, but Azarath plays it with an intensely occult black metal focus …
Anthrax – Worship Music Review
It seems about once a year I’m involved in some variation upon the same conversation: “Anthrax doesn’t deserve to be in the Big Four. It should be Exodus / Overkill / Testament…” And I’m torn there ** …
Morbus Chron – Sleepers In The Rift Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas You could argue that Dark Descent Records has the monopoly on 2011’s slew of awesome old-school Swedish death metal (Entrails, Undead Creep, Cryptborn, Miasmal, etc), but then along comes Pulverized …
Rainbow – Live In Germany, 1976 Review
These days live albums are not valued in the same way they were a few decades ago. Today, more often than not, they are tossed off to fulfill a contractual obligation and rarely receive much …
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness Review
The city of New Orleans was founded by the French in the early 18th Century, and it has a long history of French-influenced culture in its food, music, and architecture. From the perspective of a metal …
Opeth – Heritage Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay It baffles me that purist types beg for vinyl this and analog that, but when a reputable and well-loved band releases a throwback album, many of those aforementioned people pitch …
W.A.I.L. – Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination And Lunacy Review
In October of 2009, a mysterious outfit from Kristiinankaupunki, Finland, released a vinyl-only LP of its only full length to date, Wisdom through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy. Fans of Finnish doom and black metal …
Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance Review
One of the things I’m very thankful for is the fact that I was lucky enough to be alive and directly on the front-lines of heavy metal throughout the 80s as an angry/pimply/hormonally-challenged teenager. I’ll …