Chinchilla ““Madness”” (Metal Blade) Rejoice! For those of you who never thought there’d be a proper cross over between Manowar and Pretty Maids, well you thought wrong, damn you! This is pure soaring melodic German metal. All hail Germany, where…
Masquerade ““Flux”” (Metal Blade) I’’m not sure what it means, but I had the hardest time being able to appreciate this album because it is on Metal Blade. I thought all they did was metal, so hearing a solid rock album…
Dave Brockie Experience ““Diarrhea of a Madman”” (Metal Blade) I’m not sure what to expect when an album from Gwar’s frontman opens up with a song that seems to be a cover of a The Knaack song, but isn’t. Catchy,…
Vomitory ““Revelation Nausea”” (Metal Blade) Fast, brutal: Death Metal. Non stop aggression from start to finish, the only respite is the silence between tracks. The major downfall of the wall of butchered sound put out by Vomitory is the…
Catastrophic ““The Cleansing”” (Metal Blade) My first impression of Catastrophic was they sound incredibly like the ground breaking American Death metal Obituary, and for good reason. In the wake of line up changes, guitarist Trevor Peres, the one noted with…
Flotsam and Jetsam ““My God”” (Metal Blade) Yeah, I’m sure every dumb fuck out there is getting big fat jollies by doing exactly what I’m about to do… My God? My God is right! It’s exactly what I thought when…
Hades “DamNation” (Metal Blade) Hades, like early David Bowie, is probably best played at maximum volume, but because I live in a ghetto lord’s tracing paper-walled apartment complex, I’ll have to review Hades’ new album DamNation at something less than…
Vomitory “Blood Rapture” (Metal Blade) The album cover art might come from the old school of having your slightly talented friend who really wants to do something for the band draw the picture for the cover, but the music itself…
Vader “Revelations” (Metal Blade) Vader has been on the blasting doomified death metal scene for many long years but somehow their particular death metal path and mine had never crossed until the day of this fateful death metal album review…
Manowar “Warriors of the World” (Metal Blade) Manowar just hasn’t been the same since September eleventh. Like the rest of us they were deeply affected by the images of sudden violent warfare waged against the people of the United States…