Posts Tagged ‘album reviews’
Dust Settles On The Odontophobes, the debut EP from US instrumental outfit The Universe Divide, has been gaining a lot of positive attention in the ole’ metal blogging circuit lately. I am about to add to that positive press. Instrumental albums are a real risk, even in the progressive metal genre. For many fans, Sure, [...]
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The first thing you hear when you press play on “Oppenheimer”, track 1 on Observation, the debut album from Finnish band The Physicists, is a dinky electronic farting noise. At this point I’m reaching for the off-button, but then the riff starts, and I turn up the volume knob instead. Observation is a shocker of an album [...]
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I am trying to stick to my resolution of reviewing more metal albums by, shock horror, reviewing a metal album. I know, it hasn’t happened in awhile, but I went away and every metal band in existence REAMED my inbox with requests, and, it’s kinda like when you go to an ice cream shop and [...]
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Victor Griffin is a powerful name in the doom world, having previously played in Cathedral, Pentagram and Death Row. His current project, Place of Skulls, released their second album As a Dog Returns in April this year. The name derives from a biblical name for Golgotha, and the music, straight up, modern doom metal of [...]
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Last year I wrote a list of my top ten metal albums for the first half of 2010, then revisited my top ten metal albums of 2010 at the end of the year. It was interesting to see how my tastes changed over the next six months – what albums dropped off to make way [...]
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Review: Sadistik Forest – Death, Doom, Radiation
NZ Metal News and Gig Guide: 7 Feb 2012
Review: Kasium – Exhale
Linking Horn: A Quest Into the 77th Link
Review and Album Stream: Aborted – Global Flatline
