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 […]
Reviews 50 SCULPTURED’S EMBODIMENT IS JUST THIS CLOSE TO BEING A PROG MASTERPIECE February 26th, 2008 at 2:12pm Axl Rosenberg Here’s what I think it wrong with Embodiment, the new […]
Reviews 1 STONERIDER – THREE LEGS OF TROUBLE: THE BEST TEN SONGS IZZY STRADLIN NEVER WROTE February 25th, 2008 at 2:26pm Vince Neilstein StoneRider – Three Legs of Trouble (Trustkill) If Izzy Stradlin […]
Reviews 20 REVIEW: TAINT’S SECRETS & LIES February 25th, 2008 at 11:34am Vince Neilstein If Clutch had listened to a few more Neurosis albums […]
Reviews 460 PROTEST THE HERO’S FORTRESS IS AN EARLY CONTENDER FOR BEST ALBUM OF 2008 February 20th, 2008 at 5:34pm Vince Neilstein This review has been incredibly hard for me to sit […]
Reviews 70 DEAD TO FALL’S “ARE YOU SERIOUS?” AIN’T AS CLEVER AS IT WANTS TO BE February 19th, 2008 at 2:09pm Axl Rosenberg First thing’s first: no, Dead to Fall most certainly are […]
Reviews 220 HATE ETERNAL’S FURY & FLAMES IS EASILY THEIR BEST ALBUM YET February 15th, 2008 at 1:13pm Axl Rosenberg In our interview with Erik Rutan earlier this week, I […]
Reviews 60 REQUIEM – FORTISSIMO: VIRGIN BLACK ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH February 14th, 2008 at 12:43pm Axl Rosenberg I’d be lying if I said I was familiar with […]
Reviews 40 REVIEW: HUNG’S PROGENY IS SOME OF THE BEST METAL NEW YORK HAS TO OFFER February 13th, 2008 at 6:03pm Vince Neilstein Progeny, the first proper release from New York City’s Hung, […]
Reviews 6680 GENGHIS TRON’S BOARD UP THE HOUSE: WHEN DORKS ATTACK February 13th, 2008 at 3:30pm Axl Rosenberg Most metal heads were probably not the popular kid in […]
Reviews 3740 EXCELLENT SMOKE-WORTHY RELEASES FROM TIDES AND PERTH EXPRESS ON TEENAGE DISCO BLOODBATH RECORDS February 12th, 2008 at 10:53am Vince Neilstein Teenage Disco Bloodbath Records may be a mouthful to […]
Reviews 5160 CAVALERA CONSPIRACY & KINGDOM OF SORROW: THE FIRST NICE SURPRISE VS. THE FIRST BIG DISAPPOINTMENT OF 2008 February 12th, 2008 at 10:42am Axl Rosenberg Reunions and supergroups* almost never add up to the sums […]
Reviews 40 REVIEWS IN BRIEF: EGYPT CENTRAL, ONCE NOTHING February 11th, 2008 at 1:13pm Vince Neilstein Slowly but surely we’re whittling down the ceiling-high pile of […]
Reviews 60 REVIEWS IN BRIEF: SALT THE WOUND, AIRBOURNE February 8th, 2008 at 5:12pm Vince Neilstein MetalSucks writer Vince Neilstein takes a look at recent releases […]
Reviews 80 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE’S SCREAM, AIM, FIRE MISSES THE TARGET January 28th, 2008 at 2:15pm Vince Neilstein Invariably in the evolution of a musical genre there falls […]
Reviews 50 FEAR FACTORY SINGER RETURNS WITH ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS January 22nd, 2008 at 12:34pm Vince Neilstein Fear Factory singer Burton C. Bell is finally back with […]
Reviews 90 WAR WITHOUT END: WARBRINGER CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE THRASH REVIVAL January 21st, 2008 at 2:25pm Axl Rosenberg In a November 2007 Decibel article about the current thrash […]