Category: Reviews
Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet Review
Originally written by Jon Eardley There was a thread posted recently on the MetalReview.com forum that talked about getting “burnt out on metal”…basically, does it happen to you, and if so how do you cope? …
Manowar – Gods Of War Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: Posers leave the hall. Review: Homoerotic mockery and fan dividing issues aside, I actually have a soft spot for Manowar. Why? They were headlining the first metal show I ever …
Threshold – Dead Reckoning Review
The following snippet was pulled directly off Nuclear Blast’s latest ad banner for the ninth full-length release from Threshold: “For fans of Dream Theater, Nevermore and Edge of Sanity” Hmmm, interesting. The Dream Theater reference …
Shadows Fall – Threads Of Life Review
Originally written by Jon Eardley While many metal fans will dismiss this band simply because they’ve had some relative success in the music biz and have escaped the grasp of our precious underground realm of …
Inhume – Chaos Dissection Order Review
originally written by Jim Brandon We all like to get our grind fix in different ways. Some of us like it drenched in gore, raw as you can get, and designed to offend. Then there’s …
Atrocity – Contaminated Review
Originally written by David Ochoa. Metal has become a busy, busy market, and no doubt the recently reunited Atrocity are aware of that fact as we consider Contaminated, an eighteen minute taster EP of ten reworked grindin’ death …
Ensiferum – Victory Songs Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. 2006 was a pretty dry year for mail clad, folk, pagan metal, yet already in 2007 we have albums from the genre’s mainstays: Moonsorrow, Finntroll and Ensiferum, with Turisas on slate for a 2007 album also. …
Arcana Coelestia – Ubi Secreta Colunt Review
Alchemy, mysticism, paranoia, neuroticism, and human suffering: all choice elements found within the scrawlings of a book entitled Inferno – courtesy of Sweden’s premiere author/playwright/chemist/chemical dabbler of yore, Johan August Strindberg – and also the …