Bongzilla – Weedsconsin Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Century Media Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz In 1983, Motorhead, Venom, and Mercyful Fate had a heavy metal threeway whilst Angel Witch’s self titled LP provided the most romantic of soundtracks. Some say that it happened either in a greenroom at…
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Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm
Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Century Media Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Bionic Swarm is the debut album of Dutch thrashers Cryptosis, though that’s not the full story. The band were previously known as Distillator, and the new identity represents a transformation, a rebirth into a new, more efficient killing…
Iced Earth, Demons & Wizards Removed From Century Media Website
Iced Earth and Demons & Wizards are no longer listed on Century Media Record’s website following guitarist Jon Schaffer’s participation in the Capitol riot earlier this month. Century Media seems to have scrubbed all traces of the two bands, both of which include Schaffer as a founding member. Iced Earth…
Tribulation – Adam Zaars
INTERVIEW WITH ADAM ZAARS OF TRIBULATION The Swedish Tribulation is about to release the fifth album called WHERE THE GLOOM BECOMES THE SOUND. The album is another piece of the masterpiece of the dark and gloom metal of death. The four-piece however went thru the line-up change when the guitarist…
Voivod – Lost Machine-Live
Voivod – Lost Machine-Live Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz THE WAKE was the album that reignited my love affair with Voivod. My first guitar instructor (Joe Antares, love you dude) hated me because I begged him to teach me songs from DIMENSION…
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz For almost 40 years and I don’t know how many albums at this point, Napalm Death has explored and documented every corner of musical extremity. They’ve…
Shaun Glass – Repentance ( ex – Soil, Broken Hope, Sindrome)
INTERVIEW WITH SHAUN GLASS (REPENTANCE, BROKEN HOPE, SINDROME, SOIL, TERMINAL DEATH) Shaun Glass has been the part of the Chicago metal scene since the mid-’80s. Bands such as Terminal Death, Sindrome, Broken Hope have all carved the marks and gained the cult status in the thrash/death metal scene. Whereas Soil…
Wilderun – Veil of Imagination
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis On the surface, Veil of Imagination from the Boston-based Wilderun looks like another progressive or experimental metal album, but once you dig deeper you find there’s plenty more to this band and album than meets the eye.…
Demons and Wizards – III
Reviewed: April, 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Nearly ten years ago, in November of 2010 I asked Hansi Kursch in an interview when/if fans could expect a third Demons And Wizards album. I got my answer in February 2020 when the blandly named III was released.…
Queensryche – The Verdict
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP Believe or not this is the first Queensryche studio album I have reviewed. This seems strange to me because I have been a fan of Queensryche since 1984 and writing for Metal-Rules.com since 2001, which covers seven or eight…
Lucifer – Johanna & Nicke Andersson
INTERVIEW WITH JOHANNA AND NICKE ANDERSSON FROM LUCIFER Lucifer made a huge impact on the doom metal fans with the debut album simply named LUCIFER I. When the first line-up of Lucifer dissolved and Nicke Andersson stepped into the picture, the second album once again simply named LUCIFER II saw…
Eglinton, Mark – Lacuna Coil: Nothing Stands In Our Way (Book Review)
REVIEWED: February 2019 RELEASED: November 2018 PUBLISHER: Rocket 88 RATING: 5 out of 5 REVIEWER: Lord Of The Wasteland Rocket 88 is making quite a name for itself in the high-end book market. With affordable, all-encompassing memoirs on Dream Theater and Sepultura already to its credit, big beautiful editions of…
Barren Earth – A Complex Of Cages
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Century Media Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Gabor Csete I am not a big fan of progressive melodeath, but for f***’s sake, Barren Earth got me. I am going to be super honest, the clean vocals were annoying for me. Still I want to listen to ‘A…
Tribulation – Down Below
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2018, Century Media Rating: 1.5/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Some bands just outstay their welcome. Unfortunately this is the case with Sweden’s Tribulation. They have been around since 2005 and have amassed an impressive body of work in that time (debut album “The Horror” is a particular…
Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2018, Century Media Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Watain have tremendous pedigree and have returned with another slice of superlative savage Swedish skullduggery. Trident Wolf Eclipse (their sixth album) continues that fine BM tradition of choosing an album title comprised of three seemingly random words (Dimmu…