Reviews
Usually, the earlier works of most metal artists turn out to be the most destructive and vicious of their catalogue. However, these works frequently strive on destruction and singular musical mayhem as a separate entity. It is quite refreshing that Burzum/Varg Vikrenes/Count Grishnack has ignored this norm and effectively combined the debut-time madness with obtrude… Read More Burzum – Aske
One of the greatest releases of last year. This quartet from the US do know to kick some butt!!!The release combines, very intricately, aggression(fist full of it) and talent(in terms of technicality).For an album of such short length(23 mins)it does speak immensely of the band. This cd contains 5 tracks, all recorded at a studio… Read More Fleshtized – Divide And Conquer
1990 1. Turn It On 2. Bowl Of Madness 3. Crazy 4. Die For Your Country 5. Believing 6. Cinderella 7. Pretty Child 8. Screamin’ Out Three years after the ambitious 1987 debut Rock N’ Roll Renegade, Rock Machine released their second and last album under their name. It was called The Second Coming, contained… Read More Rock Machine – The Second Coming
1987 1. The Enemy Within 2. Top Of The Rock 3. Prisoner Of Passion 4. Chains And Black Leather 5. Can’t Wait Anymore 6. Rock N’ Roll Renegade 7. Karen 8. Polyvinyl Lady 9. Rockin’ In The USSR 10. Ode To Scoobie Doo When Bombay’s Rock Machine released their debut Rock N’ Roll Renegade back… Read More Rock Machine – Rock N’ Roll Renegade
Urgh, tributes! They used to be exciting when I hadn’t heard many, but after listening to a bucketload of them, I have realized that most of them are god-awful. This tribute, one of about 1,000,000 dedicated to the legendary Iron Maiden, does nothing to change my mind. Moreover, who are these people?! I’ve heard of… Read More Various – Slave To The Power : A Tribute To Iron Maiden
Finally the ineffable kings of darkness have returned with 8 tracks of pure black metal supremacy.Comprising of Lord Ahriman and Dominion on guitars,Matte Modin(of Defleshed) on drums and Emperor Magus Caligula(original vocalist of Hypocrisy) on vocals and bass,Dark Funeral is a complete war machine. “Diabolis Interium” is a landmark release in the band’s history.Dark Funeral… Read More Dark Funeral – Diabolis Interium
Anyone still listen to pure 80s’ heavy metal? If so, embrace Canada’s CELESTIAL DAWN – a band that belongs in the early 80s but still comes as a breath of fresh air in 2002, an age of baggy-pant trends and ADIDAS mall music. I received their demo GENESIS from their Pakistani-born guitarist Kash, who has… Read More Celestial Dawn – Genesis
Candlemass is one band we, or at least I, can safely call pure doom metal. No jerking around, they play and have always played pure guitar based doom metal. Not only have they consistently released strong albums, but they are also an immense influence on the manifold of doom bands that came into existence after… Read More Candlemass – From The 13th Sun
No real metal listener needs a history lesson about Judas Priest, so I’ll just skip that. I’ll start by saying that this is another fucking heavy, fucking great and fucking classic Judas Priest album! RAM IT DOWN contains some of the best material Priest has written (‘Ram It Down’, ‘Hard As Iron’, ‘I’m A Rocker’),… Read More Judas Priest – Ram It Down
I’m not a fan of later Fates Warning. I much prefer the heavy metal approach of their first three releases to the progressive rock/metal of the later stuff. Even though they’re pretty good at the progressive stuff as well, the style just doesn’t work for me. However, I feel there are still two worthwhile albums… Read More Fates Warning – Parallels
My how this band changed. I don’t even recognize them anymore. While not entirely innovative on their last album, Bloody Blasphemy, they created a wonderful blend of melodic death, thrash with a small, minute amount of black metal and their songwriting was just perfect all around. They had a well-oiled machine going. Now what? They’ve… Read More God Dethroned – Ravenous
This new 90s metal outburst in countries overseas lately has produced some excellent outfits:Emperor,In Flames, Hypocrisy, Opeth…I could go on forever. But the problem is, once a movement starts, the amount of copycats and half-inspired groups tend to make it bland, and many mediocre releases start appearing. Some of the death/thrash/power/black metal releases I have… Read More God Dethroned – Bloody Blasphemy