Tremonti – Marching In Time (Album Review)
A mainline player brings the metal mainstream. It is said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and for many…
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.
Rage – Resurrection Day (Album Review)
It’s Easter in the apocalyptic metal lands. Many in the field of high speed German steel have come and gone since its heyday in the…
Carcass – Torn Arteries (Album Review)
A more artful display of surgical precision emerges. Having sliced and diced their way into the annals of death metal’s rich and extensive history since…
Insomnium – Argent Moon (EP Review)
Four tales are told by a dreaming, wayward bard. Melodic death metal has a wide variety of potential expressions in spite of its supposedly rigid…
Portrait – At One With None (Album Review)
Theatricality begets innovation. Though now a phenomenon that has become ubiquitous throughout Europe and beyond, it could be argued that the ongoing revival of old…
Jinjer – Wallflowers (Album Review)
Progress cuts right to the core. The concept of progressive music, regardless of what specific genre it subsumes, is one that has become a bit…
Danko Jones – Power Trio (Album Review)
Punk gives rock the blues. Few things will establish a band more thoroughly than a work horse approach to musical output and a correspondingly rigorous…
White Stones – Dancing Into Oblivion (Album Review)
The abyss stares back. If the more than 50 years of metal music’s history has taught anything, it is that it isn’t bound by the…
Spirit Adrift – Forge Your Future (EP Review)
Fashions old and performances bold. Though relatively new to the American metal scene, Arizona/Texas born doom metal trustees Spirit Adrift have put out an impressive…
Wolves In The Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Album Review)
Pondering metaphysics from the forest gloom. Often times the nature of a given craft will be determined by its surroundings, and this is doubly so…
