There are very few things that are more exciting within the world of music than a good debut. A solid start for a band is something that should get every fan of the style of music the group plays jacked for what could hopefully be a long and fruitful career. Proficient debuts give you something…
Quite honestly, this might be one of the more pointless reviews I’ve ever written. If you know Destruction at all, then you should more or less know what to expect from the band’s fifteenth longplayer in their 40-year career. The German thrash pioneers aren’t out to reinvent the wheel on Diabolical, nor would I particularly…
Atmospheric black metal bands tend to be a dime a dozen. For every genuinely exciting release, there are five or six more littering release days that sound frustratingly similar. I’ve heard a couple this year already that just didn’t excite me in the least or do enough to differentiate themselves from other bands out there…
Anger gets a bad rap these days. The amount of people that I’ve seen complaining about people’s anger at the status quo as something bad over the last few years truly baffles me. Corporate greed keeps the majority of this planet locked into a perpetual cycle of economic servitude, politicians offer the illusion of choice…
Some bands come out the gate swinging with a legendary debut that just grabs you and makes you a diehard from the jump (for examples of that from this year, see Cryptic Hatred’s Nocturnal Sickness or Pillaging Villager’s self-titled debut). Other times, you hear what a band is putting out to start their career and you can…
You ever hear a record that tries to mash up a couple of styles and it falls completely flat, feeling like a jack of all trades, master of none? It’s hard to combine different elements of clearly defined genres of music into something that feels cohesive and that actually works for fans of those genres….
If you’re looking for some glorious, euphorious power metal then look no further than Power Paladin’s first full length album, With the Magic of Windfyre Steel. Even before pressing play, the cover art shows people exactly what the band is laying down, with its LOTR-esque stylized cover featuring knights, a wizard, a dragon, and a castle in a picture-perfect storybook setting. With the…
Having never seen Sepultura live before, there was no way I was going to miss a tour with both them and Crowbar, another of my faves. That the legendary Sacred Reich and exciting upstarts Art of Shock were on the bill as well was just adding to an embarrassment of riches for my listening pleasure….
I remember sitting in my friend’s trailer in the fall of 2010 listening to this wild ass band I had just heard about. They sounded like the bastard child of Mercyful Fate and Blue Oyster Cult and contained some of the most catchy lyrics that I’d heard in some time, mostly about the singer’s love…
If you’ve ever seen a horror movie, you know you can’t kill the monster. Just when you think the slasher has been dispatched, Jason runs a machete right through the perky cheerleader’s heart. That demon that you think the priest defeated? Yeah, don’t sleep easy cause that fiend ain’t gone. Seven years after Hades Command unleashed…