Category: Reviews
Bestial Mockery – Slaying The Life Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Fans of Sabbat and other thrash/black hybrids, take notice–Slaying The Lifeis a seriously destructive album. Bestial Mockery (who are now, unfortunately, split-up) take old-school thrash riffage and channel it through the blasphemous energy and …
Glorior Belli – Manifesting The Raging Beast Review
Originally written by Keith Fox. French and great are becoming synonyms when it comes to talking about black metal. Recent years have shown the French scene more than fit to put out an interesting and …
Bring Me The Horizon – Count Your Blessings Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. I have to admit that I when I first laid eyes on Bring Me The Horizon, I feared the worst. The fashion, the haircuts and the song titles almost had me …
The Project Hate MCMXCIX – In Hora Mortis Nostrae Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: Why can’t the ubiquitous Lord K (God Among Insects) and Jorgen Sandstrom (ex-Grave/Entombed, Death Breath) and their cohorts get a steady, consistent, multi album, respectable record/distribution deal? Massacre/Pavement Records, then Threeman, then Candlelight and now …
Sear Bliss – The Arcane Odyssey Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: Hungary’s Sear Bliss is one of those critically acclaimed bands I had heard mentioned around the periphery of black metal’s elite, particularly Glory and Perdition, but never got around to hearing, so …
Opeth – The Roundhouse Tapes Review
Opeth make it hard on the elitists, cynics and complainers with their first live album, the two-disc The Roundhouse Tapes. As Opeth’s commercial appeal has grown, so has the disenchanted segment of the underground that resents the band’s …
Nominon – Terra Necrosis Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: Listen up douchebags, instead of arguing in endless lashes in one of my deathcore reviews about what’s heavy, what’s metal, what’s trendy, and telling me my taste in music …
Fondlecorpse – Blood & Popcorn Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Fondlecorpse’s Blood and Popcorn EP was originally intended to be a split with the now-unstable Frightmare, but due to delays from that end the band decided to release this material by itself. In …