Category: Reviews
My Dying Bride – Evinta Review
Let me paint you a picture: A chill autumn wind rustles leaves like dry bones as it creeps across the fog-enshrouded fields of verdant Mother England. There is a small house at the top of …
Faces Of Bayon – Heart Of The Fire Review
WarHorse. That word alone might be all that’s necessary to push a number of folks towards this album. Despite the fact that he shoveled coals to the flames pre–As Heaven Turns to Ash, Faces of …
Boris – Attention Please Review
Japanese power(ful) trio Boris is one of those bands that is constantly accused of nonstop musical shape-shifting. While I’m more likely to identify these shifts as different ways of investigating the same basic aesthetic, it’s …
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 …