Category: Reviews

Neuraxis – The Thin Line Between Review

Originally written by Sasha Horn I have created the perfect Neuraxis album. It was only a click, drag, and drop away. I’m thinking about calling it Trilateral Thin Lines, or maybe Stuck Between A Live

Equilibrium – Sagas Review

originally written by Thomas Creager It should be a well established fact to anyone remotely familiar with the critical appraisal of the arts that the volume of content produced by the world at large is

Decaying Purity – Phases Of Dimensional Torture Review

Originally written by Jordan Campbell “Don’t judge a band by their looks!” scream the HM PC crew, “…metal isn’t about image”. Nor is it about being flippantly judgmental, so I suppose there is some merit

Avantasia – The Scarecrow Review

Edguy’s Tobias Sammet is at it again. Avantasia had pretty much been left for dead in the years following the release of The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera Part II, so I was surprised

Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream Review

Progressive rock/metal has traditionally enjoyed a love-hate relationship with me. While I grew up listening to vintage prog (Crimson, Yes, Genesis) before I discovered punk and subsequently went through a lengthy period of distaste for

Mar De Grises – Draining The Waterheart Review

Not that there’s much competition in my recent listens, but Chile’s Mar de Grises (“Ocean Of Grief”) is the best prog/doom/post-metal hybrid I’ve heard lately. Seriously. I know that’s simultaneously big words and a laughably

Obtest – Gyvybës Medis Review

Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: I’ve been a fan of Lithuania folk/pagan act Obtest since 1997’s Tukstanmentis, and while the band has dropped their black metal sound in favor of a more straight forward power metal/thrash with

Shai Hulud – Misanthropy Pure Review

One of the few metalcore bands that I can truly appreciate (even if I only first checked them out because I’m a science fiction geek), Florida/New York’s Shai Hulud reformed after a several-year hiatus with