Reviewed: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Mockcharge is a band from New York City. It is a trio formed by lead singer and multi- instrumentalist Ed Marson, Tatiana Turin as bass player and Donnie Hogue on drums. An important aspect of this group…
Album Reviews
Undead – Existential Horror
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, Kadabra Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Undead were an unknown band for me but, I have to say, they will be one that sticks from now on. Their first full length effort ‘Existential Horror’ is a fine example of modern death metal which comes…
Vanishing Point – Dead Elysium
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, AFM Records Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres One of the biggest surprises this summer has brought is the return of Vanishing Point after a six-year long hiatus. They were a very successful band in the first decade of this century, sharing the stage…
Sadistic Embodiment – Blood Spell
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, CDN Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson When a band takes its name from a Cannibal Corpse song, I guess you kind figure they are going to end up sounding a bit, well, Cannibal Corpse-y. So it might come as a bit of a surprise…
Okyr – Premorbid Intelligence
Reviewed: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Self-Produced Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Okyr is a new progressive metal band from Brazil that has just released their debut album PREMORBID INTELLIGENCE. The band name is a word from the Kaingang indigenous people from Brazil, and it means “The Sound of History.” Thus, Okyr…
Scordatura – Mass Failure
Reviewed: [September 2020] Released [2020 Gore House Productions] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson I learned something today. Assuming Scottish death metal brutes Scordatura took their name from some hideous disease or medical anomaly – a la Vulvodynia, Katalepsy, Ebola or even Anthrax – or some such, I Googled it for…
Ayr – The Dark
Review Date: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Wolves of Hades Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Ayr, you ever been there? Pretty bleak and miserable place on the west coast of Scotland. I live not too far away so I know this to be true. Ayr (the band) though, are not from…
Manticora – To Live To Kill To Live
September 2020 August 28th, 2020 / ViciSolum Productions Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine The mighty Manticora are back with their second conceptual installment of Lars F. Larsen’s horror novel to which is the title of the band’s last effort, TO KILL TO LIVE TO KILL. I do believe…
Desolator – Sermon Of Apathy
Reviewed: [September 2020] Released [2020 Black Lion Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Sweden’s Desolator have been around for more than a decade, but to this point only have an EP and a nearly eight-year old full-length debut to show for their efforts. Yet these guys seem to be from…
SouthernForce – SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME
Reviewed: September, 2020 Released: 2020/Independent Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres SotuhernForce is a power metal band hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed by Ricardo Recofsky, after four long years searching for the right musicians to fit his own project. The band has already had some other lineups in the past,…
Quick Jabs for Sept. 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”. Angelus Apatrida – Cabaret de la Guillotine Released:…
Sensory Amusia – Bereavement
Reviewed: [September 2020] Released [2020 Lacerated Enemy Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Sometimes good things really do come in small packages. The new EP from Australia’s Sensory Amusia delivers some of the most corrosive and fearsome extreme metal around in a murderously efficient 18-minutes that will definitely leave you…
The Hawkins – Silence is a Bomb
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, The Sign Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Lisa Nash The Hawkins started out in a small Swedish town back in 2013, building their reputation on live gigs and e.p’s culminating in a huge chance to tour Russia in 2016. Mixing elements of rock, pop, punk and…
Warning Sign – PATH TO DESTRUCTION
Review Date: September 2020 Released: 2020 Label: Independent Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Heavy-metallers Warning Sign are back with their second full-length recording PATH TO DESTRUCTION, released independently by the band. If this album is any indication of how the heavy metal scene in Canada is doing, then I’d say it’s…
Steve Blower – The Prophecy
Reviewed: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Self Produced Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Steve Blower is the guitarist, main composer, and singer for Wakefield, England’s Hamerex. The band is currently on hold, so Blower has been active with his solo music. THE PROPHECY is the follow-up to 2019’s BACK IN HELL and…