Category: Reviews
God Dethroned – The Toxic Touch Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. God Dethroned’s second album, The Grand Grimoire, has always hovered around my by top 20 death metal albums of all time, but subsequent releases have never reached that level and to be …
Dream Evil – United Review
There have been enough shakeups in the Dream Evil camp to make fans seriously question their future, particularly how the changes would affect the band’s sound. Gone are drummer Snowy Shaw and guitarist Gus G., …
Ablaze In Hatred – Deceptive Awareness Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: Yet another superb addition to Finland’s (and Firebox’s) legacy of rending, emotion laced death death/doom in the vein of Swallow the Sun and Shape of Despair. Review: If you are a fan …
Kreator – Enemy Of God Revisited (CD + DVD) Review
Originally written by Jon Eardley Kreator have long been one of my favorite thrash metal bands going back sixteen-plus years now, so the opportunity to offer up a review of the visual side of this …
Sunn O))) & Boris – Altar Review
No other band in extreme music today garners the “love ‘em or hate ‘em” label more than Sunn O))). Regardless of whether or not you consider their achievements to be “real” doom, or even “real” …
Belphegor – Pestapokalypse VI Review
Originally written by Jeremy Garner Well damn, it hasn’t even been two years yet and Austria’s Belphegor have returned triumphantly with their sixth-full length release and follow up to their monumental Goatreich – Fleshcult. While the …
Enslaved – Return to Yggdrasill – Live in Bergen Review
Originally written by Jason Jordan. For those of you who’ve seen Enslaved’s first DVD Live Retaliation, Return to Yggdrasil isn’t a rehash as much as it is a complement. Similar to their studio material, the long-running Norwegians prove they …
Gaza – I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die Review
Originally written by Dante Sacomani. After my initial listen to Gaza’s I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die I could distinctly feel only one real emotion. Guilt. Where the hell had I been? Why had I …