Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: September 25, 2020 WormHoleDeath Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Thrash metal, that name brings back so many memories. Being there when the original thrash movement started is both an honor and a curse. The reason I say that is that because I remember the birth…
Album Reviews
Finntroll – Vredesvävd
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: September 25, 2020 Century Media Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead I love Finntroll. I love folk metal so it would only be natural to love the band that is the embodiment of folk metal! My love of folk/pagan metal goes back to the early…
AceFrehley Origins Vol 2. Album Review
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Entertainment 1 Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: James Cheney Mr. Frehley being the Rock God as it is surely doesn’t disappoint. This album has a lot of energy with different genres of the former metal genre, such as; Blues Rock, Hard Rock, rock and Beatles…
Church of the Dead – Church of the Dead
Church of the Dead – Church of the Dead Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Stay Heavy Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I was a huge fan of Church of the Dead’s collection of EPs from a few years back. Spread across 5 volumes between 2013 and 2015, the Helsinki…
Inner Circles – Inner Circles
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Inner Circles is a very interesting one man project led by John O’Kelly. He took care of guitars, bass, keys and programming. Recently in August released a self titled EP with 5 tracks developing a very atmospheric…
Various Artists – Women of Doom
Various Artists – Women of Doom Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Blues Funeral Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz WOMEN OF DOOM is a compilation album created to showcase and celebrate the impact of female artists in heavy music. Just about every facet of the album has been driven by women…
Houkago Grind Time – Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)
Houkago Grind Time – Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Outrageous Weeb Power Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I’m admittedly a sucker for bands that are musically left of center or just generally odd, but Houkago Grind Time takes it to another level. The brainchild…
Mors Principium Est – Seven
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020 AFM Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After 20 years and six previous albums, the one-time Finnish sextet Mors Principium Est have whittled themselves down to a mere duo for album number seven, which fittingly bears that as its title. In the time since 2017’s…
Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota
Reviewed: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Naturmacht Productions Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Finland’s Havukruunu came across my radar in December of 2017 when I happened to come across their sophomore full length, KELLE SURUT SOI. I was immediately intrigued with how they could be compared to Moonsorrow…
Quick Jabs for October 2020
This is a new monthly section where we will post an assortment of shorter reviews for albums that we have checked out or may have missed out on previously. The reviews are short and to the point, thus the tile “Quick Jabs”. Black Tractor – The Wonders Of The Invisible…
Transcendence – Towards Obscurities Beyond
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020 – Blood Harvest Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “Patience and perseverance” – These are the things Transcendence credit for their current position when considering the span of time between their formation in 2013 and the 2020 release of this; their debut album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. …
Demonical – World Domination
Reviewed: [October 2020] Released [2020 Agonia Records] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson While there have been some big changes in the Demonical camp since 2018’s Chaos Manifesto, the Swedish death metal brigade sound as surly and brutal as ever with their sixth offering. World Domination kinda puts it right out…
Oria – Sublimation(s)
Reviewed: [October 2020] Released [2020 Self-released] Rating [2.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson If you’ve been jonesing for a new Gojira album since the band dropped its first new music in four years with the standalone single “Another World” – and its awesome yet ultimately depressing animated video – two months ago,…
Possessed Steel -Aedris
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: 2020, Temple Of Mystery Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Gotta love the band name, so metal and so expected. AEDRIS is the debut full-length album for Toronto, Canada’s Possessed Steel. The band formed and have been playing since 2010 but did not finally release their debut EP…
Old Mother Hell – The Lord of Demise
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich I missed Old Mother Hell’s 2018 debut self-titled album, but I am just in time for their follow-up album LORD OF DEMISE. The new album will be released on October 23rd on Cruz Del Sur Music. The…