Congratulations to the five nominees for the 2019 Juno Award for Best Metal/Heavy Music Album. BEYOND CREATION-Algorythm (Season Of Mist) Montreal, Quebec CANCER BATS-The Spark That Moves (New Damage) Toronto, Ontario KEN-MODE-Loved (New Damage) Winnipeg, Manitoba KOBRA AND THE LOTUS-Prevail II (Napalm Records) Calgary, Alberta …
Abigail Williams + The Infernal Sea + Martyrium @ Audio, Glasgow
Abigail Williams + The Infernal Sea + Martyrium @ Audio, Glasgow Monday, 10th December 2018 Review By: Pete Mutant
Avatar + The Mahones + Dylan Walshe @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire 20/01/19
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Best of 2018
Top 20 Metal Albums of 2018 As always, the top albums of the year are for full albums (no EP’s or demos) released in 2018. They are new studio albums for the year, not re-recordings, re-releases, cover songs, or live albums. Below the combined top 20 are the top 3…
Best of 2018 – Peter Atkinson
Top 20 01. Gorod – Æthra After making an out of character side trip into thrash on the just-for-fun EP Kiss The Freak in 2017 – which was done for a tour with Havok, Warbringer, and Exmortus – France’s Gorod get back to their tech-death ways in earnest with their…
Best of 2018 – John Haseltine
Top 20: John Haseltine 01. Amorphis – Queen of Time Amorphis have been out doing themselves album by album for many years now. While I am not sure Queen of Time surpasses Under The Red Cloud, it is chalked full of instant classics. Very memorable and sing along verses while…
Best of 2018 – Lord Of The Wasteland
TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2018 1. Ghost – PREQUELLE A contentious choice for sure but this is the record I continued to revisit over and over throughout 2018. All gimmicks aside, PREQUELLE is full of catchy, hook-filled songs that admittedly lean more towards hard rock than metal but the music…
Best of 2018 – Arto Lehtinen
My Top 20 metal albums of 2018 Judas Priest – Firepower Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods Amorphis – Queen Of Time Master’s Hammer – Fascinator Voivod – The Wake Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality Krisiun – Scourge Of The Enthroned Marduk – Viktoria Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog…
Best of 2018 – Aaron Yurkiewicz
Top 20 Studio Albums of 2018 1. Judas Priest – Firepower At an age when most bands from this generation are settled in as nostalgia acts or plotting their farewell tours, Judas Priest roared into 2018 with their strongest and heaviest album since PAINKILLER. FIREPOWER proved that not only can…
Best of 2018 – InfamousButcher
InfamousButcher: Best of 2018 – Top 20 Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality Outer Heaven – Realms of Eternal Decay Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy Cancer – Shadow Gripped Tomb Mold – Manor of Infinite Forms Gruesome – Twisted Prayers Terrorizer – Caustic Attack The Grotesquery – The Lupine Anathema Judas…
Best of 2018 – Erich
Top 20 Regrettably, 2018 was a year where I did not consume my usual amount of metal. Thus, I have been feverishly trying to catch up with what I am finding was a year of diverse and strong releases across all sub-genres of metal. Almost imperceptibly, I found that I…
IN FLAMES : Anders Friden and Björn Gelotte
INTERVIEW WITH ANDERS FRIDEN AND BJÖRN GELOTTE FROM IN FLAMES In Flames is such an interesting band as it causes different kinds of reactions and opinions amongst the metal fans. However, In Flames’s long career has lasted about 30 years and the 13th album I THE MASK proves IN FLAMES…
THE GATHERING 3 – KISS Kruise 8 Pre-Party with Four by Fate and Vinnie Vincent
In January of 2018, I traveled to the Atlanta KISS Expo to witness the long-awaited return of former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent. The event was a night to remember on many levels, and it was a lot of fun. So when I was preparing for my annual KISS Kruise, and…
Brutal Assault 2019 : Sodom, Sick Of It All, etc announced
SODOM marks the return of Frank Blackfire (ex-Sodom, ex-Kreator, or Assassin). SODOM have already released seminal albums such as Persecution Mania, the live cut Mortal Way Of Live and the highly successful Agent Orange with Frank Blackfire and he is back in a line-up featuring two guitarists for the first…
David Ellefson and Frank Bello of Altitudes & Attitude – It was a Labor of Love Making new CD, Get it Out!
Interview by Robert Cavuoto The new full-length debut CD from Altitudes & Attitude, Get it Out, was just released via Megaforce on January 18th. A&A is a collaboration between two of the world’s greatest Thrash Metal bassists, David Ellefson of Megadeth and Frank Bello of Anthrax. These two leviathan bass…