VULTURE INDUSTRIES – Ghosts From The Past (Album Review)
Haunting odes pierce the evening gloom. Horror-themed sitcoms The Munsters and The Addams Family might amuse the typical spectator when projected from the television screen,…
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.
Haunting odes pierce the evening gloom. Horror-themed sitcoms The Munsters and The Addams Family might amuse the typical spectator when projected from the television screen,…
Fourteen times is definitely a charm. When a band has come within a stone’s throw of crossing the 30 year threshold of a career marked…
The integrity of their sonic bloodline remains. Now more than 20 years into their career, it can be safely said that Denmark-born power metal meets…
No quarter offered, none given. Conflict and schism have been frequent companions to rock and metal bands since time immemorial, but such occasions often present…
Hey, they weren’t kidding with this title! There are many versions of extreme that have cropped up in the metal realm over the decades, but…
Man and beast unite to overcome all. The mystique of heavy metal’s early days has enjoyed a rather massive renaissance over the past decade or…
Negativity distilled to its fundamental form. The tail end of the 2010s saw some interesting developments in the metal world, perhaps most notably in the…
A new, more impressive mountain of sound emerges. The 2020s may well be remembered as the decade that was put on hold for a couple…
Because four T’s would be excessive. As the prime movers that brought the metal genre into prominence approach their golden years, the inevitable question of…
The union of fantasy and comedy prevail once again. Sudden and drastic changes in membership have been the death of many a band, and those…