LEATHER – We Are The Chosen (Album Review)
The chosen metallic odes arise! The horizons of heavy metal have broadened quite substantially in the past four decades, but there is definitely something to…
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.
DEAD CROSS – II (Album Review)
Scatterbrained antics beget unconventional heaviness. Life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you’ll get according to Forrest Gump, and if…
LAMB OF GOD – Omens (Album Review)
A prophecy of impending heaviness is proclaimed. Since the early 90s the American metal scene has been on a perennial quest for the ultimate expression…
CONCERT REVIEW: COLLECTIVE SOUL and SWITCHFOOT Take Pompano Beach on a Trip Down Memory Lane to the 90s (September 16th, 2022)
Photos by Joel Barrios If one were to have taken a survey of Generation X trustees of the 90s alternative rock craze on their thoughts…
Iron Savior – Reforged: Ironbound (Album Review)
The savior of iron seeks its past among the stars. Revisiting the past seems to be inevitable for the aging elite of the metal world,…
EPICA – 20th Anniversary Event [Livestream Review] (September 3rd, 2021)
he European metal scene has come a long way in the past two decades, following a seemingly miraculous rebirth of the melodic strain with a…
Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And the Dead! (Album Review)
You just can’t keep a good Vic down. Few things are as satisfying as an underdog defying the odds and coming home with the gold,…
Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Album Review)
An older legacy rises anew. Nothing tests the mettle of a musical movement like adversity, and following a massive crash in popular interest in the…
Brymir – Voices In The Sky (Album Review)
A roaring voice descends from the stormy skies. The subject of Norse mythology and the historic pursuits of the Viking age have been a common…
Soilwork – Overgivenheten (Album Review)
Superior ambition begets new horizons. The ongoing relationship between the melodic death metal style originally spearheaded by the Gothenburg scene and their younger metalcore cousins…
