Category ALBUM
“Hellbutcher?! Is that you?” are my first thoughts as the debut album of Swedish death metal upstarts Necrocurse blasts from my brand new stereo. Surely there’s only one vocalist so interchangeable and recognizable at the same time… it’s glorious beyond… Continue Reading →
It has taken me a while to put down my thoughts on this release as it is one of those albums where your opinion changes with every listening session; it is a very busy album with lots of influences included… Continue Reading →
As we all know acts from the South American continent have a predisposition to obdurately fixate their music in the 80s so much so that listening to most material from the underground there is like a time warp to the… Continue Reading →
One of the most striking features of this, the third album from Norway’s In Vain, is the quality of production. As you would expect of a Progressive Metal album, there is completeness of sound which captures all the elements. The… Continue Reading →
Often tarnished incorrectly, and being honest fucking annoyingly, as a metal core outfit Germany’s Neaera continue to unleash top quality modern death metal on the world as this their sixth album shows no signs of wavering in the creativity department…. Continue Reading →
If ever there was an extreme metal “super-group”, this would be it. Nader Sadek produced the frankly stunning “In the Flesh” a couple of years ago, and this is the live presentation of that album. For those of you not… Continue Reading →
U.D.O. the band and Udo Dirkschneider the man is somewhat of a metal music institution worldwide, coming to the scene via Accept, I myself have been guilty of laying many Accept references at this bands door over the years and… Continue Reading →
Well this one is kind of self-explanatory once you get past the Norse and the title which translates to Tombs, Crown and Thrones. It’s an album that celebrates 20 years of Taake (and weren’t they damn naughty teens) with 20… Continue Reading →
Over the course of their 17 years of existence and now 9 album releases, Soilwork have become a worldwide phenomenon. The band has branched out beyond Europe and toured Asia, Russia and USA, supporting Lamb of God and Killswitch Engage… Continue Reading →
I don’t know if it’s just the after effects of something I might have eaten in the mid-1990s but I’m always on the look-out for music that can melt me into the sofa. Generally speaking, the heavier and the more… Continue Reading →
Phil Anselmo, legendary frontman for bands like Pantera, Superjoint Ritual and Down, can be a bit of an enigma. So often he delivers on every front, yet every now and then you sense one or two weak spots emerging in… Continue Reading →
Into Darkness, the new Star Trek film, is due out 2013… for those who cannot wait there’s a Milanese take on all that, in the form of death-worshippers Into Darkness (formed in 2011, 2 BSTID (Before Star Trek Into Darkness)…. Continue Reading →