Reviewed: October 2021 Released: September 2021, Frontiers Music Srl Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Buddy H The acrimonious 2012 split between Anette Olzon and Nightwish has been well documented. The short time she spent with the band has proven to be very polarizing among longtime fans. Regardless of which side of the…
Album Reviews
Helheim – WoduridaR
Reviewed:01/10/2021 Released :29/10/2021, Dark Essence Records Rating : 4/5 Reviewer : Neil Langton Norwegian Viking Metal legends Helheim return with their 11th album “WoduridaR“. Recorded at Conclave & Earshot Studios in Bergen with Bjørnar E. Nilsen ,the album marks a return to the bands roots with the harshness, aggression and…
Claymorean – Eulogy for the Gods
Reviewed: October 1, 2021 Released: September 15, 2021, Stormspell Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal (also referred to as NWOTHM) is alive and well and a serious movement. It is not a sound or a subgenre. Instead it is a movement to…
Ancient Empire – Priest of Stygia
Reviewed: October 1, 2021 Released: September 15, 2021, Stormspell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead One of the best things about the NWOTHM is the diversity among the different bands. Each one carries a little bit of their main influence real close to them and it comes out in…
Brainstorm – Wall of Skulls
Reviewed: October 1, 2021 Released: September 17, 2021, AFM Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead I’ve been a fan of Germany’s Brainstorm since their 2000 release AMBIGUITY. I found them to have a very unique sound. They had roots in European power metal being from one of the countries…
Thor-Alliance
Reviewed: October, 2021 Released: 2021, Deadline Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve written so many reviews of Thor albums that I feel like I’m starting to repeat myself. Thor is one of Canada’s longest running, most prolific and best selling Metal artists and he is back with album # 27 or…
The Electric Mud – Black Wool
Reviewed: October, 2021 Released: 2021, Small Stone Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Here is an engaging smattering of retro stoner rock, riff-centric and Sabbath injected with liberal doses of southern Florida rock and metal mixed in. The Electric Mud hail from Ft. Meyers, Florida and BLACK WOOL is their follow-up…
Dream Theater-Score (DVD Review)
Reviewed: October, 2021 Released: 2006, Rhino Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The cleverly titled SCORE (with double meaning fully intended) is the bands 20th anniversary DVD. As I mentioned in a previous review, the home video 5 YEARS IN A LIVETIME sort of masqueraded as a fifth anniversary compilation despite it…
Vandenberg-The Complete Atco Recordings
Reviewed: October, 2021 Released: 2021, Cherry Red/ HNE Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP About 15 years ago I started to methodically digitize my 3000 strong cassette collection. The goal was preserve and archive those fragile beauties. This was pre- Spotify so it was a real treat to have all these increasingly…
Necronautical – Slain In The Spirit
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Candlelight Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Necronautical: all the way from Manchester, this quartet have been working non-stop for the last decade to get into the upper echelons of British black metal, and I can now say they have secured their seats at the…
Heads For the Dead – Slash ‘n’ Roll
Heads For the Dead – Slash ‘n’ Roll Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Transcending Obscurity Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz At the time of my typing these words, we’re exactly 30 days from Halloween 2021. Which makes Heads For The Dead’s latest EP SLASH ‘N’ ROLL surprisingly timely. Stewarded…
Venefixion – A Sigh From Below
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine After releasing a split with Belgium’s Possession two years ago, Venefixion are unleashing their first full-length record, named A Sigh From Below. Founded in France, the metal quintet have had a productive eight years. “On the boil…
Pestilential Shadows – Revenant
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Seance Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Forming almost twenty years ago, Australia’s Pestilential Shadows are no strangers to the themes of death and disease. They have returned 18 months into the pandemic with their sixth full-length Revenant, following up 2019’s compilation album The Fate…
Rivers Of Nihil – The Work
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter Well, this has been coming and, after eight years, the cycle is finally complete: RIVERS OF NIHIL’s seasonal tetralogy has reached its end. Debuting with the spring-influenced ‘The Conscious Seed Of Light’, the band have seen their star…
Feed The Corpses To The Pigs – This Insidious Horror
Reviewed: [October 2021] Released [2021 Horror Pain Gore Death Productions] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Have to admit I was caught a little off guard by these guys. With a name like Feed The Corpses To The Pigs (or FTCTTP) – and nicknames like “Murder Pig” and “Torture Pig” –…