Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Awakening Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Apocalyptic Fear was a little-known early death metal band from Canada, releasing just two demos: Decayed Existence (1992) and Dawn of the Ritual (1994). These have now been combined and reissued by Awakening Records. And for early 90s…
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Blazon Stone-Return To Port Royal (Definitive Edition)
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: 2020, StormSpell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP For the working class Metal artist, content is king. Only the biggest bands and artists can survive on past glories and take several years between albums. Cederick Forsberg does not have that luxury. When the global pandemic hit and…
Succsexx-Sexx Machine
Reviewed: December,2020 Released: 2020, FNA Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP Man, is this ever a nostalgic gem for me! I was very excited when I learned that the good people at FNA Records were going to release SEXX MACHINE. I had the pleasure of seeing this band in Toronto back…
Aria-Baptism By Fire (Re-recorded and reissued)
Reviewed: December,2020 Released: 2020, M2BA Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Despite the world being more and more inter-connected by technology there are still some regions that have quite insular Metal scenes. Geography, politics, money and most of al language, all play a role in preventing bands from expanding internationally. Nowhere is this…
Death Angel-The Enigma Years (1987-1990)
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: December 2020, Hear No Evil/ Cherry Red Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than getting your loved one a Death Angel boxset? I can’t think of any! HNE/Cherry Red continue to bring the goodies as they have just issued…
Rock Rollas-Metal Strikes Back (Definitive Edition)
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: 2020, StormSpell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP For the working class Metal artist, content is king. Only the biggest bands and artists can survive on past glories and take several years between albums. Cederick Forsberg does not have that luxury. When the global pandemic hit and…
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.…
Stortregn – Evocation Of Light
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Non Serviam Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog It’s been almost ten years since Stortregn released their debut album, Devoured By Oblivion. In the years that followed, the Swiss black metal band have maintained a steady course of live shows and regular album releases – one…
Perished – Kark
Reviewed: June, 2018 Released: 2018, atmf Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson It is a crying shame when good bands only stay long enough to gift us a couple of albums. Perished are one such band. “Kark” was their incendiary debut and one that deserves revisiting. Contemporaries of the likes of…