Album Reviews
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MONSTROSITY‘Screams From Beneath The Surface’Metal Blade Records Death metal has always had a strange relationship with time. Some bands decay slowly, leaving behind relics of a violent past, while others rise from the grave sharpened by the years, heavier and more deliberate than before. When MONSTROSITY announced, ‘Screams From Beneath The Surface’, their first album…
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LAMB OF GOD‘Into Oblivion’Epic Records Once a pioneering act of the new wave of American heavy/thrash metal, Virginia’s LAMB OF GODis now one of its longest-surviving champions. And the band’s durability is testament to the consistency and dependability it has worn as badges of honor for more than 25 years. While LAMB OF GOD sometimes…
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LIGHTNING STRIKESThe King Is VictoriousRubicon Music They were once touted as the first lean, mean Armenian heavy metal machine who predated SYSTEM OF A DOWN by a decade when they first formed in Los Angeles in 1985. Their name conjured up images of fast and furious forces of nature – so much so that their…
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LEVIATHAN CYCLE‘The Suffering Prolonged’ EPIndependent I’ve been fortunate, in this world, to not only review some of the biggest bands on the planet but many of them shaped the music I grew up ‘blasting through my speakers’. The moments that stick with you are often the early ones. Times when you catch bands before the…
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AXEL RUDI PELL’Ghost Town’Steamhammerhttps://www.axel-rudi-pell.de AXEL RUDI PELL isn’t exactly a household name in North America, but the tales of his exploits have been well documented overseas. The guitarist got his start in the band STEELER around 1984. Not the one with Ron Keel and Yngwie Malmsteen. The German one. Pell went solo in 1989 with…
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EXHUMED‘Red Asphalt’2026, Relapse Records Ladies, gentlemen, gore fiends and grind heads, start your engines: EXHUMED are back. Hard to believe, but true, the band led by Matt Harvey has been thrashing like maniacs for 36 years! Back now with newest opus ‘Red Asphalt’ one must ask the question: is this album a new era for…
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ROB ZOMBIE’The Great Satan’Nuclear Blast Recordshttps://www.robzombie.com/ ‘The Great Satan’ is the 8th studio album by musician and filmmaker ROB ZOMBIE. Rob’s latest collection of music, his first in nearly five years, can actually be summed up in just two words; classic Zombie! What era is that? I would classify it between WHITE ZOMBIE’s 1992 album…
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SYLOSISThe New FleshNuclear Blast Records SYLOSIS deserves a seat at the table and at this point, they’ve earned it! This isn’t a band still trying to prove they belong; it’s a band reminding the metal world that consistency, evolution, and riff writing still matter. For me, ‘The New Flesh’ isn’t just another album to review,…
