June 5, 2020
Torrefy – Life Is Bad
June 2020 July 1st, 2020 / Self-Release Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine When it comes to genre-bending or including several styles of music to classify a band’s sound, it can go either one of two ways. There tend to be some bands that try a bit too hard…
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED-Charred Walls Of The Damned-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Six (April 6, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2010, Metal Blade Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
Popoff, Martin-Anthem (Book Review)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, ECW Press Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I must admit when I heard that Popoff was writing a fourth(!) book about Rush I rolled my eyes. I felt he was going back to the well a bit too often and doing another book about a band…
CANDLEMASS-Ashes To Ashes Live-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 43 (May 13th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2010 Rating: 4/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar and…
White Crone – The Poisoner
June 2020 February 23rd, 2020 / Self-Release Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine “Lisa Mann made a career as an award-winning blues artist, but never lost her love of metal music. Growing up in the mosh pits of the 1980s, she was inspired by bands such as Iron Maiden,…
SPIDERS AND SNAKES-Melodrama-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 32 (May 2nd, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2008, Sansei Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar…
HIBRIA-Blinded In Tokyo-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Four (April 4, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2012, Cleopatra Records Rating: 3.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three…
Ignea – The Realms of Fire and Death
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2020, Kadabra Music Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Ukrainian melodic metal band IGNEA release ‘The Realms of Fire and Death’, a three-part experience of a heavy collision between metal and symphonic, electronic, and folk elements. Each part consists of three songs, outlining different perspectives on the…
RAGE-Strings From A Web-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 27 (April 27th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2010 Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar and…
Hyems – Anatomie des Scheiterns
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset/MDD Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis “Anotamie des Schieterns” is the third full-length studio album by Germany’s black metal force, Hyems, who hail from the North Rhine area. Whilst I am not a fluent German speaker, I do know the album deals with…
Mad Hatter – Pieces of Reality
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2020, Art Gates Records Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Swedish power metal act Mad Hatter released their sophomore album ‘Pieces of Reality’ through Art Gate Records on May 22, 2020. Their sound is influenced by classic heavy metal acts, which has won over fans and led the band to…
LEGION OF THE DAMNED-Cult Of The Dead-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Twelve (April 12th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2008, Massacre Rating: 3/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar…
IMMOLATION-Hope And Horror-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 35 (May 5th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2008, Listenable Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar…
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Unique Leader Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz In some what can only be some kind of cosmic joke, Afterbirth released one of the best death metal albums of the year the same week that COVID-19 basically shut the world…
MARDUK-Germania-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Seventeen (April 17th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2008, Regain Rating: 2/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar…