Criminal Interview with Anton Reisenegger, guitars/lead vocals Interview by Paul Macmillan You’ve probably heard Anton Reisenegger in action before, even if you didn’t realise it; Pentegram Chile, Lock-Up, Brujeria, and, I’m led to believe, a certain spoken word section of a recent(ish) At The Gates album. However, he is best…
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Criminal – Sacrificio
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Blade Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Paul Macmillan A new Criminal album. Always a good shout. Sacrificio makes it 9 long-players for the Chilean mob, and marks 30 years of their existence. Here encompassed is an explosive, razor-toothed supply of dark, urban thrash. In some ways,…
Desaster – Sataniac
INTERVIEW WITH SATANIAC OF DESASTER The German Blackened thrashers Desaster will be releasing the ninth full-length album titled CHURCHES WITHOUT SAINTS on Metal Blade. Desaster has been flaging for the old school metal since the late 80s without slowing down. The ninth is a great piece of the pure blackened…
Spectacularly Majestic! Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 26: Brian Slagel (America)
Spectacularly Majestic! Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 26: Brian Slagel (America) by JP Inspiration can come from a number of unique sources. The concept behind this interview series was developed over time but recently crystallized in my mind. As the owner of a large library I’ve often pondered…
Cannibal Corpse – Alex Webster
INTERVIEW WITH ALEX WEBSTER OF CANNIBAL CORPSE Cannibal Corpse’s 15th full-length album VIOLENCE UNIMAGINED. The title of the album definitely tells a listener can expect a pure deadly quality death metal in the Cannibal Corpse way. Metal-Rules.Com had an interesting chat with the bassist of Cannibal Corpse, Alex…
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…
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Full disclosure – the last time I paid any attention to Primordial was around SPIRIT THE EARTH AFLAME, and I had zero inclinations that Nemtheanga had been spending the last few years…
Armored Saint-Punching The Sky
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: October 2020, Metal Blade Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Buddy H Full disclosure right from the start… As soon as I find out that Armored Saint is releasing a new album, I anxiously await it like a 5-year-old waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas morning. I was instantly hooked…
Six Feet Under-Nightmares Of The Decomposed
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP I usually don’t bother looking at reviews of albums I am considering reviewing. Most of the time I just can’t be bothered. It’s funny I’ve heard and talked to the reviewers who also say that they don’t read other…
FALCONER-From A Dying Ember
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP In my mind a new Falconer album is always an event. I’m sure many of us have heard the concept of the blind buy where we buy an album just based on the cover art. That was the case…
CIRITH UNGOL-Servants of Chaos-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Thirteen (April 13th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2012, Metal Blade 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…
Juggernaut-Baptism Under Fire/Trouble Within
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Over the past 15+ years, Metal Blade Records has been conducting a periodic reissue campaign. Various albums or bands are getting the deluxe two or three disc reissue treatment and the latest in the series is the band, Juggernaut.…
Interview with Ferry Damen of Antropomorphia
April 2019 Phone Interview by Sabrina Selkis
The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
Reviewed: June, 2018 Released: 2018, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.0/5 Review by: Pete Mutant The Crown are back with their tenth album under this moniker in Cobra Speed Venom, probably one of the worst names for an album I have heard -near ‘Deathrace King’ levels, but let not this name…
ACT OF DEFIANCE To Hit The Road In Support Of Old Scars, New Wounds
ACT OF DEFIANCE, the heavy metal group featuring the talents of Chris Broderick (ex-Megadeth), Shawn Drover (ex-Megadeth), Matt Bachand (Shadows Fall, Times Of Grace), and Henry Derek (Scar The Martyr), released their latest full-length album, Old Scars, New Wounds, via Metal Blade Records in September of 2017. Now, in 2018, the…