Reviewed: January 24th 2021 Released: 2020, self-released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Dennis Dallas, Texas is not only known for it’s oil and cotton industry, there’s also some nice, ass-kicking Metal bands around. Protest did release three Eps in 2020 and all of them sound angry as fuck. As every Metalhead knows…
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Waves Of Decay – Burn Your Angel Wings
Review Date: February 2021 Released: 2021, Independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Nearly four years have passed since Belgium’s Waves Of Decay released their Cycloptic EP. Now the power-thrashers are back with their latest offering BURN YOUR ANGEL WINGS, released independently by the band. The cover art is very well done…
Laiho, Alexi (w. Silas, Peter) Chaos, Control & Guitar (Book review)
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2020, Johnny Kniga Publishing Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP In very early 2021 (Jan 4th) the world discovered that Alexi Laiho, guitarist and founder of Children Of Bodom had passed away. I personally was not shocked, very disappointed yes, but not shocked. I saw COB on the HEXED…
Darklore – The Evil of Man
Reviewed: February 2021 Released: 2021, independent Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, a metal quintet by the fitting name of Darklore release their brand new album from fantastical realms. The Evil of Man combines symphonic and melodic elements with a recognisable blackened thrash metal foundation, cemented by lyrics that call upon…
Unredeemer – 4-19-23 EP
Review Date: January 2021 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Unredeemer is a relatively new band from Finland, and they’ve released their 4-song EP called 4-19-23. Vocalist Saša Pul hails from Croatia and joined the band after moving to Finland. After a brief intro, “Defiance” kicks in and right…
Deconsecrate – Dark Night Of The Soul
January 2021 December 1st, 2020 / Goodlife Recordings Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine I was a bit hesitant about putting a review of Deconsecrate’s sophomore release DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL up on the site here. Only for the fact that they still have a genre description…
WITHOUT MERCY Interview
Interview with DJ Temple (guitarist) of WITHOUT MERCY Interview by Kat Knite Official Website – Bandcamp – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram – Spotify Listen to Seismic here: Bandcamp – Spotify – Youtube Music – Deezer Vancouver based death-metal act Without Mercy had been hard at work for the last few years working on fresh material, making sure…
Armageddon-Three
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: June 2002, Toy’s Factory Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Buddy H No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. I did not accidentally transpose the 2’s and 0’s in the release date. This is not a new release. Rather, I have the honor and pleasure of reviewing one…
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…
Mustaine, Dave-Rust In Peace (Book Review)
Reviewed: December, 2020 Published: 2020, Hachette Press Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The 30thanniversary of Megadeth’s most iconic album, RUST IN PEACE is a good a time as any to write a book about it! The good people at Hachette have published just such a thing. The hardcover book is pretty…
Sodom – Genesis XIX
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: November, 2020 Entertainment One (“eOne”) in North America and Steamhammer/SPV in Europe Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Theron Moore Of all the old school bangers still around, Sodom might be the best at what they do in terms of pure thrash and speed metal. Sodom are one of the…
Squealer-Insanity
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: December 2020, Pride & Joy Music Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Buddy H I must confess that, while I have heard Squealer before and have listened to them sporadically throughout the years, I am not as familiar with them as I would like to be. With that being…
Interview with Kneel
Interview with Pedro Mau (drums, bass, guitar) Interview by: Beandog Kneel: Bandcamp / Facebook Off the back of KNEEL’s powerful new album – Ailment – Metal Rules tracked down the band’s central figure, Pedro Mau and spoke to him about his inspirations and the creation of the new record… Hi there,…
Terravore – Vortex of Perishment
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: November 27, 2020 Punishment 18 Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead There are a lot of bands that can call themselves old school thrash but that label can sometimes be misleading. Bulgaria’s Terravore wants there to be no misunderstanding, they play real thrash bordering on death…
Interview with Bear Mace
Bear Mace – Interview with Chris Scearce & Mark Sugar Interview by: Beandog Bandcamp / Facebook / YouTube Metal Rules recently had the pleasure of speaking to Chicago death metal band Bear Mace about the release of their densely heavy new album, Charred Field Of Slaughter. We gave the album…