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…
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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…
Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2107 , Metal Blade Ranking: 3.5/5 Reviewer: John Haseltine After nearly 30 years of punishing brutality, the death metal masters Cannibal Corpse have bestowed upon us RED BEFORE BLACK. Being their 14th studio effort and after not really listening to their last couple offerings, I was…
Ensiferum – Two Paths
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2107 , Metal Blade Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: John Haseltine From album to album, many bands of every genre experiment, changes things up a bit here or there in order to not become stale in the vast universe of music. And depending on the genre, how many…
Metal Blade Records – Interview with owner Brian Slagel
Metal Blade Records has existed since 1982, and without Brian Slagel, the metal scene would be a different one. There was no way to turn down the opportunity to talk to him via Skype, not even being on holidays in the middle of nowhere in France while having a barbecue,…
1349 Interview with Ravn
1349 Interview with Ravn The Underworld, Camden 19th November, 2014 Interview by Caitlin Smith While 1349 may not have been around when black metal exploded at the beginning of the 90s, but 17 years on they have still managed to carve themselves as a stable in any black metal fan’s…
1349 @ The Underworld, Camden
1349 @ The Underworld, Camden 19th November, 2014 Review by Caitlin Smith Photos by Oliver M. It may have been 3 years since infamous black metal band 1349 spread their plague ridden offerings across UK soil, but they have certainly not been forgotten. Despite being a school night for most,…