Blood Tsunami – Grand Feast For Vultures (Candlelight Records)
Slayer here, Slayer there, Slayer everywhere. Grand Feast For Vultures, the second offering from Norway’s Blood Tsunami takes more than a fair share of cues from Araya, King, and co. and it’s less engaging as...
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares (Century Media Records)
Growing up in the original thrash wave of the mid to late 1980’s, I’m happy to see a return thanks to the second generation of fans who desire to keep the energy, the spirit...
Merauder – God Is I (Regain Records)
When hardcore stays in the metallic vein, the results are more often than not, above-average. Merauder, who have made a career out of just staying a notch below the likes of Madball, Sworn Enemy, and Terror,...
Horde of Hel – Blodskam (Moribund Records)
Comprised of members of the Swedish black metal scene (we’re guessing at least someone from Marduk is in this band), Horde of Hel’s industrial BM leanings are without the over-produced and futuristic vibe that...
The Psyke Project – The Dead Storm (Lifeforce Records)
A stark contrast to the overly-glossy sounds currently emanating from Denmark (read: Raunchy, Volbeat, et al), The Psyke Project keep it ugly and uglier throughout The Dead Storm. It has the necessary rumble and roll...
Evile – Infected Nations (Earache Records)
What’s the old cliché of the rock business? You have forever to write your first album but six months to capture magic in a bottle for the follow-up? UK thrashers Evile hit the scene...
Chthonic – Mirror of Retribution (Spinefarm Records)
It sometimes seems that the idea of Chthonic is better than the reality. The Taiwanese symphonic black metal band came to the attention of Western audiences with the release of Seediq Bale in 2005. A brutal,...
Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans (Napalm Records)
Turgid aquatic doom…if there really is such a thing, then Germany’s Ahab are it. Regaling us with more stories of wave and woe, the band return with The Divinity of Oceans an equally-as-crushing salvo as their...
Leaves’ Eyes – We Came With the Northern Winds/En Saga I Belgia DVD (Napalm Records)
The handful of times yours truly has seen Leaves’ Eyes live, it appeared a bit of live “trickeration” was going on if you catch my drift. The band sounded a little too pristine for these ears,...
Augury – Fragmentary Evidence (Nuclear Blast Records)
Quo Vadis, where art thou? Technical Canadian death metal is not the same without you and if one thinks for a second the likes of Despised Icon and Beneath the Massacre are capable of...