Category: Reviews
Harkonin – Ghanima Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Harkonin make the wise decision of not having their primary influences made explicit on either their website or their Myspace page. So, while I can’t take the easy way out and …
Trivium – The Crusade Review
Chris Sessions’ take: Trivium, then? OK, so what are my impressions? Not my cup o Joe, sailor. This is just more of the same shit I have been hoping to avoid reviewing for about a …
Insomnium – Above The Weeping World Review
originally written by Jim Brandon I’ve only been able to briefly hear Insomnium’s In The Halls Of Awaiting and Since The Day It All Came Down until fairly recently, and after more concentrated listening I …
Ahab – The Call Of The Wretched Sea Review
“Yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder man, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very …
Wolf – The Black Flame Review
Originally written by Dante Sacomani. I’m typically the last person willing to dole out any over exaggerated praise to a band who so obviously handpicks their musical cues straight from the back catalogs of legendary …
Light This City – Facing The Thousand Review
Originally written by Jeremy Garner Somehow I doubt I’m alone in this regard, but I consider Light This City to be easily one of the more entertaining American metal acts out there today, eclipsing the competition presented …
Arriver – Vanlandingham And Zone Review
Originally written by Chris Chellis. The scope of Arriver is astounding. For an unknown band that, to my knowledge anyway, is unsigned and untouched by any major to devise something as massively mythological and textured as Vanlandingham and …
Absentia Lunae – In Umbrarum Imperii Gloria Review
It’s black metal time again, among my least favorite examples of the diversity my pet musical fetish has whelped. But this band has recorded it in a manner I can at least tolerate. You know, …