SACRED REICH: Awakening
SACRED REICH Awakening
METAL BLADE
7/10
GROOVE/THRASH METAL: Twenty-three years is a long time to wait for a new album. Awakening is seminal thrash band...
ELYSION: Bring Out Your Dead
ELYSIONBring Out Your Dead
MASSACRE
8/10
OPERATIC POP METAL: It sure as hell doesn’t sound like it, but Bring Out Your Dead is Elysion’s first album in...
POSEHN: Grandpa Metal
POSEHN Grandpa Metal
MEGAFORCE
10/10
COMEDY METAL: Comedian Brian Posehn and his famous friends are here to rip metal a new pie hole. Grandpa Metal is...
MARK MORTON: Ether
MARK MORTON Ether
RISE
7/10
ACOUSTIC ROCK:
Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton shows off his skills as a
diverse musician with his second solo offering,...
SIX FEET UNDER: Nightmares of the Decomposed
SIX FEET UNDERNightmares of the Decomposed
METAL BLADE
4/10
DISAPPOINTING DEATH METAL: Let’s get the “elephant in the room” out of the way right off the bat....
VENOM: Sons of Satan
VENOM Sons of Satan
BMG
8/10
LAYING DOWN THEIR SOULS: Lesser and vastly more insignificant bands have had fawning and comprehensive biographies penned about...
INCITE: Built to Destroy
INCITE Built to Destroy
MINUS HEAD
7/10
MODERN EXTREME METAL: Phoenix based Incite—led by frontman Richie Cavalera—have been proving themselves for 15 years now. Despite his...
ESSENCE OF DATUM: Spellcrying Machine
ESSENCE OF DATUM Spellcrying Machine
SEASON OF MIST
7/10
INSTRUMENTAL
MELODIC TECH DEATH:
This Belorussian duo may excise a focal talking point from their landscape by
not employing a vocalist,...
PAN/SCAN: Kosmonauter
PAN/SCAN Kosmonauter
CINEPLOIT
9/10
REMIX AND REWIND: The term “pan and scan” means different things to different people. For some, it’s a somewhat nostalgic...
NEKROGOBLIKON: Welcome to Bonkers
NEKROGOBLIKON
Welcome to Bonkers
MUSIC BOX
5/10
GOBLIN METAL: One of the reasons Dethklok works as well as it does is that Brendan Smalls fully understands that if...