The Limit – Caveman Logic (Album Review)
Old and new converge to recapture the original punk spirit. Super-groups have become a dime a dozen of late, which is quite impressive when considering…
Author Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
Jonathan is a long time contributor to The Encyclopaedia Metallum website under the pseudonym hells_unicorn and has written for The Metal Observer on and off for the past 10 years. He was previously a lead guitarist in the Philadelphia-based folk metal band Frost Giant and played Dave Murray’s parts for the Philly-based Iron Maiden tribute band Tailgunner. He is currently the guitarist and principal songwriter for the nascent symphonic power metal project Ominous Glory.
Motorjesus – Hellbreaker (Album Review)
It doesn’t get much more metal than this. Some of the best kept secrets in the metal world have had a peculiar habit of being…
Johan Kihlberg’s Impera – Spirit Of Alchemy (Album Review)
Archaic tricks enter the modern age. Metal is arguably the least conducive medium for a songwriter to rely upon other musicians entirely for the performance…
Arion – Vultures Die Alone (Album Review)
Sorrow and bombast unite. After several decades of being put at the forefront of the European power metal movement by the success of Stratovarius, there…
Monasteries – Silence (EP Review)
Silence breaks by a primal scream. Though among the younger sub-genres of metal, deathcore has arguably seen the quickest expansion of specialized niches within its…
Aziola Cry – The Ironic Divide (Album Review)
The irony of stagnant progression has been dispelled. Just as the old saying goes that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, there…
Enforcer – Live By Fire II (Album Review)
By fire, the 80s has been reborn. Originally formulated as a one-man project by Swedish thrash scene veteran Olof Wikstrand, Enforcer quickly became an important…
Metalite – A Virtual World (Album Review)
Our virtual future emerges. Not messing with a winning formula is a practice that has become a bit more commonplace of late, and there is…
Agent Steel – No Other Godz Before Me (Album Review)
The conspiracy has been reborn. Call it nostalgia, but there was something truly unique and compelling about the original run of The X-Files. The time…
Angelus Apatrida – Madrid Live Pandemic! [Livestream Review] (March 20th, 2021)
Discontent has been the order of the day for the past year; to the point where penned up frustration has led to a number of…
