
SAMURAI PIZZA CATS‘Press Start’Century Media Records Sometimes dumb and fun will do the trick. And Germany’s SAMURAI PIZZA CATS hits the mark on both counts.With a band that takes its name from an early ‘90s Japanese anime show and boasts guitarist Daniel Haniß from ELECTRIC CALLBOY – who have essentially conquered the world with its…

CORROSION OF CONFORMITYGood God/Baad ManNuclear Blast Records Magic!Loss!Rock ‘n roll celebration!…unintentionally ahem “baad” spelling? Let’s face it: Much has gone down in the CORROSION OF CONFORMITY universe since their last album smacked us upside the head. Back in 2018, when No Cross No Crown dropped like a rock n’ roll atom bomb, the tried-and-true CORROSION…
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SODOMGet What You Deserve [Deluxe Box Set]BMG / Noisehttps://www.sodomized.info 1994 was not the best year to be a Thrash Metal band. The entire world had embraced the Seattle Grunge scene. Some bands folded, others tried to adapt, but SODOM said “fuck you” to the entire system and continued to do things their way. SODOM albums…

HELLRIPPERCoronachCentury Media Records There are nights where you throw something on just to fill the silence, and then there are nights where something finds you. This was one of those. I review albums regularly sometimes it’s bands I’ve followed for years; others it’s something I should have known but didn’t. HELLRIPPER falls into that second…

EXODUSGoliathNapalm Records From the band that brought you the creed “ALL POSERS MUST DIE!”, Bay Area Thrash Legends EXODUS return with a new album. With releases always highly anticipated, this is their 12th to date and is also their debut on a new label, Napalm Records. Not only that, this is also marks the return…

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…

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…

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…