Category: Reviews
Boris – Heavy Rocks II Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell If you’re a Boris neophyte, there are a couple of things you need to know about Heavy Rocks straightaway: 1) By and large, it’s relatively heavy…and it occasionally rocks. 2) This is the second …
Voivod – Warriors Of Ice Review
Originally written by Sasha Horn With a setlist made up of primarily pre-90s Voivod, it’s hard not to get sentimental. So it’s off to the elementary school daze for a momentary lapse… Summer vacation 1988, Chicago, 90º …
Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory Review
After being left to rot for six years, the withered carcass of Exhumed, has been… exhumed, and I suppose it should not come as a surprise that the band has emerged all the stronger for …
Portrait – Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae Review
The power and traditional metal genres are filled with bands that aspire to be the next Iron Maiden or Judas Priest. To date they have all failed, but in the process, some have made some …
Panzerchrist – Regiment Ragnarok Review
Let’s start things off with a quick confession: yours truly was pretty severely bummed out when long-running Dutch death metal merchants God Dethroned announced that they were calling it quits. God Dethroned had always been …
Coffins – Ancient Torture Review
First-rate Japanese miscreants Coffins have racked up quite the reputation for a consistently excellent output of utterly filthy and punishing death metal that flirts with the same smattering of skullcrushing doom that launched early greats …
Tombs – Path Of Totality Review
Tombs’ second album stares the notion of a ‘sophomore slump’ straight in the face, politely clears its throat, and then sets said notion on fire using nothing but its will and an unlit match. But …
Sepultura – Kairos Review
Let me begin by saying that Kairos is the first full album under the Sepultura name that I have heard since Against all the way back in 1998. I’ve caught snippets here and there, enough …