Ghost Brigade is quite possibly a progressive death metal band from Finland. I say quite possibly because I’m not real sure about the progressive death metal part.
Blatant Disarray is the other band on Tribunal Records that I picked up on iTunes the other day. They are also from North Carolina, which leads me to believe that must be where Tribunal is located.
Cardinals Folly is a fairly traditional doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They used to be called The Coven before changing their name a few years ago.
Colossus is another band I found while looking through the iTunes new Metal releases. “Drunk on Blood” is only a five song EP but their decidedly old-school metal sound...
I first discovered Trivium somewhere between their first and second album. I saw them open a show at the Recher Theater in Towson, MD (I want to say it was with Iced Earth and Beyond the Embrace...
Hail the return of Polish death metal purveyors Vader! (Being a life-long Star Wars fan the name Vader wins bonus points in my book.) This band has been around forever...
The wait is nearly over. “Agony” will be hitting the streets next week and what a welcome arrival it will be. Described as Italian technical death metal, I have to wonder...
If I’m doing my math correctly, the average age of the three founding members of Diamond Plate is 18. They released their first EP in 2008 at 15 years old.
What happens when you take some people from power metal bands and throw them together with some people from death metal bands? Well in this case you get Mayan.
Rare are those moments when you come across music that really connects with you and you just know that you’ve found a new favorite band. Some people have a new favorite band every week which dilutes the experience.
Some people will never admit they are wrong and will fight to uphold a mistake long after it makes any sense to do so. Not me though, I can admit when I’m wrong.
Poking around in the new releases on iTunes this morning I noticed that Sinister Realm just released a new album, “The Crystal Eye”. I liked their first album...
Here we are again: Another show at Jaxx, and another complaint about how they never open on time. I checked their website before leaving work and it said the doors were at 6PM.
Grunge. I remember well how it came along like an avalanche from nowhere and killed off the pop music and hair metal of the 80s. Most of the remaining metal went...
Wikipedia lists All Shall Perish as a deathcore band from Oakland, CA. I’m not a real fan of the term deathcore or the bands that are generally associated with it.
I seem to be on a Viking/Folk metal kick lately, because today we have Falkenbach, a Viking metal band from Germany. It is funny how time gets away from us...
How many people actually listen to music which is sung in a language they do not speak? I’m just curious. I wonder how successful bands are that sing only in...
I’m willing to bet most people have never heard of Artas; I know I hadn’t before receiving this album to review. And I know a lot of metal bands. So I must say I was...
In late 2007, with four albums already under their belt, Decapitated’s career suddenly came into question after a tour bus accident which took the life of drummer Witold "Vitek" Kie?tyka...
Epic. That is the word that first springs to mind during the first track from “A Rose for the Apocalypse” the latest from Draconian. Vast, sprawling textures…Epic.
I don’t know about you, but to me Cerebral Bore sound like a bunch of pissed off Scots. What’s that you say…they are a bunch of pissed off Scotts? Well there you go.
In my last review I talked about Ghost and how they do an awesome job channeling the early Mercyful fate sound. I have to admit that it was all part of my evil master plan to...
There are a lot of new bands forming these days that are forsaking the current trends in metal and creating music that sounds like it could have been released in the 80s.
Once upon a time, in the far away land of England (far away for me anyway) there lived a band. This band’s name was Black Sabbath. And one day Black Sabbath invented heavy metal.
I wouldn’t normally buy a live album, let alone review one. The be-all, end-all of live albums for me is Iron Maiden’s “Live After Death”. It just doesn’t get better than that in my opinion...
What do you get when Paradise Lost mates with Katatonia? Today the answer to that question is Scar of the Sun. The surprises just keep rolling in this past week...
I gave this a listen based on the interesting name (yes, I was one of those people who used to buy albums in the store by picking the coolest looking cover).
I’m pretty excited by Revoker’s debut album “Revenge for the Ruthless”. How often do you hear a debut album that sounds this damn good? Personally, I cannot think of many.
Ghost Brigade is quite possibly a progressive death metal band from Finland. I say quite possibly because I’m not real sure about the progressive death metal part.