Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Album Review)
Pure kinetic thrash mayhem manifested. While the metal community often enjoys chiding less aggressive musical genres for lacking spine, occasionally a band comes along that…
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.
Classless Act – Welcome To The Show (Album Review)
Now here’s a band with class. With more than 50 years of history at hard rock’s back, the possibilities at the disposal of any new…
The Live and UnZoomed Tour: STYX, REO SPEEDWAGON and LOVERBOY Prove That Rockers May Grow Old, But Rock Never Does (June 19th, 2022)
With each passing year the list of icons of rock’s early days still manning the stage and bringing this now vintage sonic expression to the…
CONCERT REVIEW: One Part of HEART Rocks Like the Whole Thing – ANN WILSON Lights Up the Florida Night (June 17th, 2022)
Legends never grow old, they simply watch the world change around them and occasionally change with it, or at least that’s the lesson that the…
Everclear – World Of Noise [30th Anniversary Edition] (Album Reissue Review)
90s west coast rawness rages back. When a band achieves legendary status, regardless of their respective scene or stylistic niche, there tends to be a…
Wind Rose – Warfront (Album Review)
The brothers of the hammer strike again! The past few years have been nothing short of surreal, and few know it better than that merry…
Kreator – Hate Uber Alles (Album Review)
Hate reigns supreme. The USA may have been the birthplace of thrash metal, but when it comes to its most extreme adherents, said nation has…
Decapitated – Cancer Culture (Album Review)
Corruption rages from within. Widely heralded as one of the premier bands in revitalizing the death metal in the early 2000s, Poland tech death wizards…
JOHANNES “JOE” VAN AUDENHOVE of EVIL INVADERS Reflects on The Isolation During the Covid Lockdowns and How the Eclectic Nature of Their Latest Studio LP, “Shattering Reflection”, Was Fueled by It: “We Try Not to Think in A Box, When We Write Music It Comes Naturally.”
It goes without saying that the Covid pandemic reaped havoc upon the metal scene, but even more than a year of worldwide lockdowns could not…
CONCERT REVIEW: California Legends STRYPER Bring Metallic Verses To South Florida (May 26th, 2022)
With the war to reclaim the live music scene from the years of lockdowns still raging, it is only fitting that one of its champions…
