Album Review: “Sound & Fury” by Dust Bolt
Dust Bolt's fourth album, Trapped in Chaos, showed the German thrash band experimenting with its sound while retaining an aggressive edge. That edge is severely blunted on its newest release, Sound & Fury. Dust Bolt slow it down this time, opting ...
Album Review: “Bloodmoon” by Kerrigan
Teutonic trio Kerrigan unleash a barrage of old school metal on its debut album, Bloodmoon. Clean vocals, anthemic choruses, blasts of speed metal and shredding guitar leads are abundant on this album. ”Eternal Fire” opens the albums in fiery fashion ...
Album Review: “Hellriot” by Mystic Prophecy
Mystic Prophecy's twelfth album, Hellriot, initially surprised me. I expected a bombastic, over the top power metal album and heard an album filled with grit, groove, catchy choruses and virtuoso guitar leads. The Bavarian quintet do not play around a ...
Album Review: Atrocity-Okkult III
German death metal group Atrocity complete its trilogy with Okkult III. Okkult treads the line between commercial accessibility and uncompromising brutality on this record. Songs will shift from grooving riffs reminiscent of Machine Head and Slipknot ...
Album Review: “Trapped In Chaos” by Dust Bolt
Dust Bolt expands its horizons on the band's fourth album, Trapped In Chaos. There is greater depth to the songs, while the band retains its signature thrash sound. Album opener “The Fourth” transitions between aggressive, blistering drums spliced with s ...
CD Review: “Oblivion” by Crematory
Crematory return with its 14th album, Oblivion, a steely slab of death metal, goth and industrial. “The Expectation” is a short orchestral piece that commences the album and concludes with a short poem that introduces the band. “Salvation” is noted for it ...
CD Review: ‘Akroasis’ by Obscura
Obscura's fourth record, Akroasis, is a metal mindtrip. The long awaited follow up to the critically acclaimed Omnivium, is a progressive musical journey of death metal, jazz and classical. The seven minute long “Sermon of the Seven Suns” is a metallic ro ...