Gama Bomb – Speed Between The Lines (Album Review)
Mosh like you mean it, bitches! Thrash metal has never been big on the concept of subtlety, and if Gama Bomb’s latest studio offering is…
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Arion – Life Is Not Beautiful (Album Review)
Link has grown cynical these days. Though likely a complete coincidence, one can’t help but notice the striking similarity in appearance that the lone protagonist…
Skull Pit – Skull Pit (Album Review)
Old skeletons with a shiny new casket. For all the implicit imagery of skeletons and the common idiom of them dwelling in a person’s closet…
Brainstorm – Midnight Ghost (Album Review)
The terrors of midnight play it safe. When any band reaches veteran status, a certain degree of reflection becomes inevitable both among themselves and their…
Unleashed – The Hunt For White Christ (Album Review)
The old ways are still the strongest. Too often a band’s present merits are judged by how much progression their sound has made, which is…
Ghost Ship Octavius – Delirium (Album Review)
The undead set sail for even darker seas. Few subjects can hope to be as poignant and dark as that of one’s demise, be it…
Soulfly – Ritual (Album Review)
A new ritual sets forth a grand tribal revolt. With there now being more than two decades of distance since Max Cavalera’s departure from Sepultura,…
Ethernity – The Human Race Extinction (Album Review)
Extinction by industrialization and progression. One curious tendency that has developed within progressive-tinged power metal circles over the past 10 or so years has been…
Aborted – TerrorVision (Album Review)
In a world of endless monstrosities. Otherworldly imagery has been the stock and trade of death metal for about as long as the sub-genre has…
Siege Of Power – Warning Blast (Album Review)
Obligatory, apocalyptic images and sounds. Stereotypes seem to be inevitable when a given expression comes of age, and with black metal appropriating the old occult…
