Category: Reviews
U.D.O. – Rev-Raptor Review
Consistency, thy name is Udo. For twenty-five years, under his eponymous faux-abbreviated band name, Udo Dirkschneider has cranked out a series of quality traditional metal records, thirteen of them now, all deeply rooted in the …
Forgotten Tomb – Under Saturn Retrograde Review
originally written by Jim Brandon File this one in the category of bands I should have heard about years ago, and somehow completely missed. Considering the fact that suicidal blackened doom is like sweet fruit …
Summon The Crows – One More For The Gallows Review
Norway’s Summon The Crows is another band crossing the streams of metal and hardcore — less filthy and black than Dishammer and less grind than Trap Them, Summon The Crows prefers their punk with a …
Miasmal – Miasmal Review
I must admit that my heart skipped a beat when I saw Miasmal’s debut in our review queue here at MetalReview. However, my excitement was not due to a positive previous encounter with Miasmal’s music. …
Septic Flesh – The Great Mass Review
We all experience music differently. Most of that ought to be put down to genre preferences, listening habits, level of intoxication, and so forth, but you can’t necessarily pin it all on these subjective factors. …
Spearhead – Theomachia Review
originally written by Jim Brandon We last heard from the Spearhead camp back in 2007 when they unharnessed a destructive force entitled Decrowning The Irenarch, and it’s about damn time the revamped lineup released some …
Nader Sadek – In The Flesh Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Death metal in general has been strangely quiet around these parts lately, but things are about to change. Almost from out of nowhere comes the debut album from Nader Sadek, …
While Heaven Wept – Fear Of Infinity Review
While Heaven Wept‘s peerless Vast Oceans Lachrymose brought a lot of new faces to the band’s doorstep back in 2009. And rightly so: the album marked a new pinnacle in terms of emotional, utterly absorbing …