Category: Reviews
Gravehill – Metal Of Death / Advocation Of Murder And Suicide Review
As you can likely guess from the title, Metal Of Death / The Advocation Of Murder And Suicide is a compilation of sorts, a rerecording of a previous EP (Metal Of Death) with the addition …
Krisiun – Southern Storm Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. It’s kind of a rare thing for a band to continue to improve after six or seven albums. More often than not we’ll see an act peaking somewhere between their …
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 …