Destruction – Born To Thrash: Live In Germany (Album Review)
Thrash till death and rebirth. While there is much to be said for a band getting the job done in the studio, wherein thrash metal…
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 Tree Seeds – Push The Button (Album Review)
Rediscovering the missing link. Despite the revival of old school thrash metal that was subsequently dubbed the New Wave of Thrash Metal (NWOTM) being the…
Poltergeist – Feather Of Truth (Album Review)
Truth that’s as heavy as a giant, lead feather. Perhaps the greatest pitfall of the ascendency of any art form is that eventually the saturation…
Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins – Whore Of Babylon (Album Review)
The mother of harlots cometh. It has been widely stipulated that the past two decades have seen the power metal tag is of an all…
Falconer – From A Dying Ember (Album Review)
The bard’s flame never flickers. Few would question the consequential role that Sweden has played in metal music’s ascendancy, but it is often taken for…
Michael Angelo Batio – More Machine Than Man (Album Review)
The soul of a mighty playing machine. The 80s could rightly be regarded as the decade of the guitar god, and amongst the many heroic…
Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God (Album Review)
Introducing the grand eponymous non-debut. There’s a peculiar practice that has been becoming popular of late where veteran metal acts opt to release an eponymous…
Fairyland – Osyrhianta (Album Review)
Osyrhia, before the ravaging wars. Though today France has become a competent rival to Italy in producing lofty symphonic power metal projects, fielding the likes…
Paralysis – Mob Justice (Album Review)
Submit to the metallic mob. The meteoric revival of thrash metal has left no shortage of impressive craters since the mid-2000s, often retreading territory that…
Alestorm – Curse Of The Crystal Coconut (Album Review)
Black pearls give way to glittering fruit. Despite being roughly 14 years to the day that Alestorm (then known as Battleheart) first broke onto the…
