Category: Reviews
Sonne Adam – Transformation Review
Let’s think about album covers for a while, shall we? Much like lyrics, album art is one of those things that usually matters only when it is either exceptionally good or exceptionally bad. Nevertheless, when …
The Konsortium – The Konsortium Review
Black metal sure is one hell of a mangled corpse these days, isn’t it? Partisans of the narrowest sort are easily mollified by the diversity on offer: from the weepiest, nature-fondling scarf-wearers to the mankind-devoured-by-the-machines …
Dekapitator – We Will Destroy…You Will Obey!!! (Reissue) Review
Originally released in 1999, We Will Destroy…You Will Obey!!! was the debut from Dekapitator, an act formed by Exhumed members Matt Harvey (guitars, vox) and Col Jones (drums) to scratch their violently thrashing itch. And …
Cianide – Gods Of Death Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas Good lord, I haven’t heard these guys since their 1992 debut The Dying Truth, which I subsequently sold or traded. (If anyone has an extra copy feel free to hit …
Disma – Towards The Megalith Review
originally written by Jim Brandon It looks like the battle between style and substance rages on. With the apparent hibernation of many tech-death torchbearers, the resurgence of ugly death metal bands seems to have reached …
Suidakra – Book Of Dowth Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas I’ve long championed and enjoyed Germany’s underrated folk-metal act Suidakra. From Lupine Essence through the shaky pure melodeath phase of Command to Charge to 2009s Crogacht, and even with the …
Orange Goblin – Orange Goblin Review
Long-running stoner outfit Orange Goblin seems an unlikely candidate for the box-set treatment, but courtesy of Metal Blade, they get it nonetheless. Orange Goblin (the box set) is a 5-disc compendium of the band’s first …
Satan’s Host – By The Hands Of The Devil Review
You like power metal, right? Who doesn’t, after all, occasionally yearn for keyboards and wenches, widdly guitars and dragons, quintuple-tracked fake choirs and hymns in praise of the righteousness of the almighty George, Thunder-Unicorn Savior …