Reviews 50 BILLY HOWERDEL’S ASHES DIVIDE FALLS SHORT OF THE MARK IN DEBUT EFFORT April 22nd, 2008 at 3:39pm Vince Neilstein With Ashes Divide, essentially a one-man solo project in band […]
Reviews 60 EKOTREN’S LIGHT THE FIRE DOESN’T LIGHT MY FIRE April 18th, 2008 at 11:08am Axl Rosenberg It’s a little surprising that a band like EkoTren exists […]
Reviews 180 THE SWORD BE BORIN ME April 17th, 2008 at 3:12pm Kip Wingerschmidt Ok so I’ve given Gods of the Earth, the recently-released […]
Reviews 70 ORIGIN’S ANTITHESIS: SUPER TECHNICAL DEATH METAL YOU CAN ACTUALLY LISTEN TO April 15th, 2008 at 11:16am Axl Rosenberg Here’s the reason I’m so often turned off by super-technical […]
Reviews 0 MERCENARY’S ARCHITECT OF LIES ISN’T AS GOOD AS WE’D HOPED, BUT IS STILL PRETTY DARNED’ AWESOME April 14th, 2008 at 10:40am Axl Rosenberg Power metal, by its very definition, is a pretty cheesy […]
Reviews 30 ANEW REVOLUTION RISE TO NEW LEVELS OF BORING April 11th, 2008 at 12:44pm Vince Neilstein Anew Revolution – Rise Anew Revolution play radio-ready hard rock […]
Reviews 0 PORCUPINE TREE’S NIL RECURRING IS A B-RATE COLLECTION OF B-SIDES April 8th, 2008 at 2:27pm Vince Neilstein Porcupine Tree – Nil Recurring Nil Recurring is a collection […]
Reviews 1 DVD REVIEW: MUSE REV UP THE ENERGY LEVEL WITH HAARP April 8th, 2008 at 11:04am MetalSucks [MetalSucks contributor Tommy Leebowitz was lucky enough to attend a […]
Reviews 90 CHILDREN OF BODOM GET BLOODDRUNK April 3rd, 2008 at 12:21pm Vince Neilstein Children of Bodom are one of those bands, like Slayer, […]
Reviews 50 SEVENDUST, CHAPTER VII: HOPE & SORROW — VINCE’S SHORT REVIEW March 27th, 2008 at 12:35pm Vince Neilstein Seeing as Clint Lowery just rejoined Sevendust, really, who cares? […]
Reviews 1 SEVENDUST, CHAPTER VII: HOPE & SORROW — VINCE’S LONG REVIEW March 27th, 2008 at 12:33pm Vince Neilstein [Sevendust announced yesterday that founding member and key songwriter Clint […]
Reviews 20 FIREWIND’S THE PREMONITION DELIVERS IN THE EPIC METAL CATEGORY March 25th, 2008 at 1:35pm Vince Neilstein If only American bands made power metal this awesome and […]
Reviews 20 THINE EYES BLEED’S THINE EYES BLEED WILL MAKE THINE EYES, UH, BLEED March 21st, 2008 at 11:33am Axl Rosenberg So here’s the thing: I never heard In the Wake […]
Reviews 70 REVIEW: NEAERA, ARMAMENTARIUM March 19th, 2008 at 10:59am Axl Rosenberg How to feel about Armamentarium, the third album in as […]
Reviews 40 REVIEW: JARBOE/JUSTIN K. BROADRICK’S J2 March 17th, 2008 at 2:02pm Axl Rosenberg Okay, so let’s just get the negative out of the […]
Reviews 0 EPICUREAN’S A CONSEQUENCE OF DESIGN INJECTS A WELCOME DOSE OF EUROPE INTO AMERICANA METAL March 17th, 2008 at 1:38pm Vince Neilstein For their Metal Blade debut A Consequence of Design, the […]
Reviews 40 BYZANTINE’S OBLIVION BECKONS BECKONS FOR A NEW SINGER, BUT WE STILL BECKON FOR A REUNION March 12th, 2008 at 10:13am Vince Neilstein For their third full-length release Oblivion Beckons, Byzantine have conjured […]
Reviews 100 AM I EXTRA-SMART BECAUSE I “GET” MESHUGGAH? KmfW ON *OBZEN*, THE NEW OFFERING FROM SWEDEN’S PROTO-PROG-POLYMETRIC MASTERS OF SYNCOPATED M E T A L March 11th, 2008 at 11:42am Kip Wingerschmidt Well, there once was a time when a question like […]
Reviews 1 ELUVEITIE’S SLANIA IS THE PERFECT UNISON OF CELTIC FOLK MUSIC AND HEAVY METAL March 11th, 2008 at 11:11am Vince Neilstein Monsieur Axl Rosenberg said it best when he stated that […]
Reviews 50 ASG WIN US OVER WITH WIN US OVER February 26th, 2008 at 4:04pm Vince Neilstein Amplification of Self-Gratification (ASG) combine a number of ’90s alt-metal […]