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…
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…
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…
Some albums take a bit to grow on you and demonstrate what they are all about. Nocturnal Sickness, the debut longplayer from Cryptic Hatred, is the other kind of album, the kind that grabs you by the lapels and screams out in your face from the jump to pay attention. The killer riff that launches…