Category: Reviews
Gravehill – Rites Of The Pentagram Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Gravehill are one of those beer-can-crushing, fake-blood-gushing, we’re-so-metal-it’s-absurd type of bands. Additionally, they also happen to sound alot like God Dethroned, though that’s probably purely accidental. Regardless, after researching their personnel (among their ranks: …
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions Review
Originally written by Ross Main. It was pretty much a year ago that Scar Symmetry announced the replacement for the departed vocal talents of Christian Älvestam. Many people saw the need to hire two new singers as …
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder Review
To be perfectly honest, I’ve always liked the idea of supergroups better than the real deal. It’s certainly something that’s fun to speculate about with friends, but more often than not, expectations seem to outweigh …
Canopy – Will And Perception Review
After two EP’s and one full length, Stockholm’s Canopy return with their second long player. Kinda. Will and Perception shares the name with their quality self-released EP, includes a complete rerecording of that release, a …
Baroness – Blue Record Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Few albums in 2009 have been hyped to the degree that Blue Record has. Okay, let’s be honest–no albums have been anointed with such preemptive praise. I was half-surprised at the lack of …
Caspian – Tertia Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Challenging to review, but pleasant to listen to, albums like Tertia are incredibly difficult to encapsulate in words. There are times when I have to completely remove my critical hat …
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Man Must Die, thus far, have been quietly lurking in the periphery of the death metal elite. Despite having two critically-acclaimed releases to their credit (Start Killing and The Human Condition) the …
Primordial – A Journey’s End (Reissue) Review
originally written by Chris McDonald I’ll go ahead and say it outright; A Journey’s End is my favorite Primordial album, and likely always will be. A dense, challenging record, it represents the ideal crossroads between …