Category: Reviews – Audio

Glorious metal in all its earthly forms, compressed onto shiny plastic discs or into digital files. Which ones will become the soundtrack to your life?

  • Head To Head On… Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions

    Two very different reviews of the new Arch Enemy album, entitled Khaos Legions, out now on Century Media. Which one do you agree with?

  • Totimoshi – Avenger

    This record runs the gamut from cool to quirky to slightly-boring alt-rock slog, leaving no stone unturned along the way.

  • Unexpect – Fables of the Sleepless Empire

    Using every positive adjective I could find may not do the album or the band justice but try this on: Unexpect are a collection of aural artists and in Fables of the Sleepless Empire they have created their masterpiece.

  • Heinali And Matt Finney: Ain’t No Night

    Ain’t No Night is a spectacular record, unique and eclectic. Its rewards are deep, but they are demanding.

  • Toxic Holocaust – Conjure and Command

    Simply put, Conjure and Command is Joel Grind at his most vicious and it’s Toxic Holocaust’s most noticeable album to date. Whatever’s pissing this dude off we’re lucky to be reaping all the benefits.

  • Rhapsody of Fire – From Chaos To Eternity

    I have to admit that it’s pretty bittersweet, as good as From Chaos to Eternity is; I feel it should have been a bit more epic. The finale to such a huge, sweeping overall piece of musical work, in my mind should have been much grander.

  • Obscura – Omnivium

    One believes that what makes Omnivium a successful album is that it is willing to take chances, whether it be playing a slower, more intricate melodic passage when the listener is expecting a battering ram riff, or indoctrinating your ears with further gravity blast bliss and shredding guitar when the average human’s arms and headbanging…

  • Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned – 30 Weight

    Not quite what I expected, sort of a subpar Danzig I with a coupla country-fried tunes tacked on to the end.

  • Mayan – Quarterpast

    It may take a few spins to really grasp it, but Quarterpast has enough major virtues making the effort worthwhile. Hopefully, if Mayan does decide to put out a second album they can smooth out the creases

  • Hail! Hornet – Disperse the Curse

    What do you get when you cross Dixie Dave with T-Roy Medlin? Well, whatever it is, it can be found in Hail! Hornet, a Carolina sludge supergroup combining the forces of two of the state’s biggest names with a couple former members of Sourvein and Alabama Thunderpussy.