Category Archives: Metal Reviews
Metal Review: Negator | Gates to the Pantheon (2013)
Fronted by Dark Funeral vocalist Nachtgarm, Germany’s Negator is back with their fourth album entitled “Gates to the Pantheon.” When you mention Dark Funeral, you can expect that Negator will be an intense project and based on Negator’s previous body of work, you know that their latest release will be heavy and dark. From the
Metal Review: Cerná | Restoring Life (2012)
Cerná is a post-black metal outfit founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2011 by Cody McCoy of ambient prog exhibitionists The Omega Experiment. “Restoring Life” is an instrumental release that is layered with sound and atmosphere. We do not get many albums like this that are actually successful, so when one comes around that works, I
Metal Review: Sacrilegious Impalement | III – Lux Infera (2013)
Finnish Sacrilegious Impalement will release their third effort, entitled “III – Lux Infera,” on May 31, 2013 through Woodcut Records. The album follows the critically acclaimed “II – Exalted Spectres,” released in 2011. This all-analog recording has a big sound with plenty of dynamics and some great guitar tones. Songs like the happy-sounding Down for
Metal Review: Noisem | Agony Defined (2013)
The Baltimore-based quintet Noisem, formerly known as Necropsy, weave a nice combination of raw ’80s thrash metal with early ’90s death metal that reminds me of bands like Pestilence, Cannibal Corpse and Possessed. Sounds nice, does it not? The other thing to note about this band getting set to release their full-length debut “Agony Defined”
Music Review-Blockheads-This World is Dead
1. Deindividualized 2. Already Slaves 3. Born Among Bastards 4. Final Arise 5. Bastards 6. Awaken 7. This World Is Dead 8. Hidden Terrors 9. All These Dreams… 10. Media Warfare 11. Be A Thorn To Power 12. Human Oil 13. Poisoned Yields 14. To The Dogs 15. Buenos Aires S.C. 16. Crisis Is Killing
Metal Review: Power Trip | Manifest Decimation (2013)
Texas crossover band Power Trip is set to release one of the most anticipated crossover albums in recent times with their debut effort “Manifest Decimation.” Power Trip has been making waves locally in Texas for a little bit now, and they feel that it is time that everyone gets to hear their classic sound on
Metal Review: Zombie Inc. | Homo Gusticus (2013)
Austrian Zombie Inc. featuring Wolfgang Rothbauer (Disbelief, Godhatecode) and Martin Schirenc (ex-Pungent Stench, Hollenthon) is back with their sophomore effort “Homo Gusticus.” As you would expect from bands of this ilk, their latest effort does not stray far from the path that they started out on with their debut effort “A Dreadful Decease.” The album
Metal Review: Dew-Scented | Insurgent (2013)
Hitting shelves on May 28, 2013 in North America via Prosthetic Records is Germany’s Dew-Scented with their celebration of 20 years of metal destruction entitled “Insurgent.” Their latest effort features three brand new songs, seven live tracks, plus covers and more. “Insurgent” begins with the new tracks, which are not bad at all, but I
Metal Review: Kalmah | Seventh Swamphony (2013)
As the champions of the swamp metal genre (not that there are many others in this genre), Kalmah has done a lot of good for themselves in their previous 6 full-length releases and 15 years of existence. With the addition of a new keyboard, there seems to be an extra something with “Seventh Swamphony.” Virtuoso
Metal Review: Forlorn Path | Man’s Last Portrait (2013)
New Brunswick’s Forlorn Path hits us with their debut full-length release, “Man’s Last Portrait,” as a different band than the one that released their first EP, “Being Towards Death,” in 2010. Only two founding members remain, but the sonic assault that we have come to know is still there, “Man’s Last Portrait” opens with The
