Year: 2002

Reviewed: January 2002Released: 2001, IndependentRating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Waspman This CD arrived in my mailbox with no fanfare whatsoever (What, you don’t have trumpets signaling the […]

Reviewed: January 2002Released: 2001, EaracheRating: 1.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman Rabies Caste is a new band with some unusual lineage: Israeli-Russian. It’s always cool to see varied […]

Reviewed: January 2002Released: 2001, Century MediaRating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Waspman After reading the reviews of Solefald’s previous album, NEONISM, I was expecting something completely out of […]

Reviewed: January 2002Released: 2001, Nuclear BlastRating: 2.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman A band called Lacrimosa releases a new album on Nuclear Blast and the cover is all […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2002, Sanctuary / Noise RecordsRating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: 2002 Virgin Steele is celebrating their 20th anniversary. It was way back in 1981 […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 1990, A&M RecordsRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: CrashTest Classic Pick Extreme are one of my favorite rock/metal bands of the late 80s to […]

Reviewed: January 2002Released: 1999, Plastic Giraffe ProductionsRating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: CrashTest OK, so why the hell am I reviewing a CD that is two years old? […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2001, SPV / Steamhammer RecordsRating: 3.0/5 Reviewer: Pete I\’ve never really gotten the Michael Schenker \”guitar hero\” thing. Granted, his contributions […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2001, Threeman Recording / Music For NationsRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Anders Sandvall Entombed are L.G Petrov (vox), Uffe Cederlund, Alex Hellid (guitars), […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2001, Century MediaRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: CrashTest DARK GENESIS is a release that I have been eagerly anticipating for months. I have […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2001, Century MediaRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: CrashTest I feel lucky this month to be able to review something from two of the […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2000, SPVRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Anders Sandvall During 1999 the ex-Lizzy-members Scott Gorham (guitar and b.vox); John Sykes (guitar and lead vox); […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: n/a, Heavy Metal RecordsRating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Thiago Martins Let’s have some weird exercise right now. Imagine, if you are able to, […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: n/a, Encore RecordsRating: 4.7/5 Reviewer: Thiago Martins Eterna is a Brazilian white metal band. They sound like an epic Symphony X, […]

Reviewed: January 2002 Released: 2001, InsideOut Music AmericaRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Rick This CD should really have been reviewed for last month but it came on […]