Sterbhaus is a Swedish thrash/death band from Stockholm and “Angels for Breakfast and God for Lunch” is their second album.I have to start by saying I love the album title, “Angels for Breakfast and God for Lunch.”
Read MoreAeon is a death metal band from Sweden and “Aeons Black” is their fourth album. When I think of Swedish death metal, I think of melodic death metal. Bands like...
Read MoreGraveyard is a Swedish retro hard rock band, and “Lights Out” is their third album. Their second album, “Hisingen Blues” was released early in 2011 and made big waves with their 70s styled blues rock.
Read MoreI am not generally a fan of live albums, but there are some bands, and some tours, which truly make for a great live album, and Machine Head just happens to be one of those bands, and any tour with Machine Head is bound to be memorable.
Read MoreI was thrilled, as I am sure many metal fans were, to learn there was an animated TV series that revolves around a death metal band. Metal has perpetually received second-class treatment from the rest of the world, but Metalocalypse...
Read More“Effigies of Evil” is the third album from Finnish death-doom band Hooded Menace. I have been waiting since September to slip this into the rotation somewhere, and the time has finally arrived.
Read MoreAnaal Nathrakh, from the UK, is back with their seventh album of extreme metal, “Vanitas.” This duo has been on my radar for years, yet I have never given them much attention. Despite the band receiving praise from the metal media...
Read MoreThere was apparently a lot of anticipation for “Time I”, Wintersun’s second album; fans had to wait eight years for this second installment. I may have a copy of the first album somewhere, but I was oblivious to the anticipation...
Read MoreBison B.C. from Vancouver, British Columbia (the B.C. in the band’s name) have returned with their third album of stoner sludge metal, “Lovelessness.”
Read MoreGreetings! Hurricane Sandy has passed and I have awoken from my slumber to find that today is the best holiday of the year, Halloween! What better to review on Halloween than...
Read MoreStoner metal band The Sword has returned with their fourth album, “Apocryphon.” I have been eagerly waiting to hear this album for several months. I am not disappointed.
Read MoreMontreal’s Cryptopsy have returned with their seventh album of brutal/technical death metal (or is it their sixth? Wink, wink.) I joke about it being their sixth because...
Read MoreThis year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first My Dying Bride album, “As the Flower Withers.” I cannot believe it has been 20 years already...
Read MoreFrost Giant is from Boyertown, Pennsylvania and “When Myth and History Merged into Mystery” is their first EP. They play a mix of folk metal and death/hardcore.
Read MoreBritish melo-death band Sylosis have returned a year and a half after their last album to give us their third album, “Monolith.” It takes something really special to get me excited about...
Read MoreFor years I have been mostly ignoring Between the Buried and Me because I thought they were some crappy, cookie-cutter metalcore band. I must have been confusing them with some other band...
Read MoreI have been eagerly waiting for the new Daylight Dies, and today it finally dropped. I was unable to track down an advance copy, so like the rest of the world I had to wait for it to hit iTunes...
Read MoreEnslaved is a band that should need no introduction. This Norwegian band has been around since the beginning of the Scandinavian black metal scene and was one of the early bands to hoist the Viking metal...
Read MoreSatan’s Wrath is the new band featuring Tas Danazoglou, formerly of Electric Wizard. “Galloping Blasphemy is the band’s first album and it sounds just a wee bit different than Electric Wizard.
Read MoreI did not receive a bio with this album, other than a little blurb on the download page, so I did a little looking around online. Information about Abstracter was pretty sparse. Here is what I found...
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