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…
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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…
Sanity Control – War on Life
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Selfmadegod Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Sanity Control is a crossover thrash metal band hailing from Warsaw, Poland who pay homage to the classic metal sounds while combining it with a distorted hardcore punk assault and shoving the whole thing through a blender repeatedly. I…
ONSLAUGHT-Generation Antichrist
Review Date: August 2020 Released: 2020 Label: AFM Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP There are a few 80’s bands that have had a career resurgence later in life and Onslaught certainly meets that category. The band after their comeback churned out three killer, thrash albums in six years, faster and…
MEKONG DELTA-Tales Of A Future Past
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Mekong Delta is one of those cult-type bands that ignores trends, ignores politics and just does their own thing. Their combined output is weird and sporadic, this being album #12 after a six year wait since IN A MIRROR DARKLY. I…
Reverber – Sect of Faceless
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Punishment 18 Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Italian thrash metal band Reverber return with their third full-length album entitled Sect of Faceless. Founded in 2007 by a group of young musicians with a hunger and a fire to deliver thrash metal at maximum power, Reverber released their excellent…
Ice War – Defender, Destroyer
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Fighter Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry ICE WAR is a speed metal project formed solely by Jo Capitalicide shortly after his previous group IRON DOGS disbanded in 2015. Since then, he’s been releasing demos, EP’s and albums at a relentless pace! Now, ICE WAR…
Interview with Pessimist
Interview with ‘Murphy Lange and Eric Tobian (Guitarists) Interview by Luke Hayhurst Social Media sites: www.facebook.com/pessimist.thrash/ www.instagram.com/pessimist_band/ Hey and thank you for your time! Hey Luke! Thanks a lot for this interview. This is Eric (Guitars, since 2012) and Murphy (Guitars, since 2016), thanks for having us! It’s been 7…
PERZONAL WAR-Neckdevils Live-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Fourteen (April 14th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2018, Metalville Rating: 3.5/5 (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 dissimilar…