Tags: death metal, evisceration, grindcore, review, music, metal, death, black, heavy, rock
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Review : Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Review: Beyond The Ninth Wave - Volume I
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Garlikde'th - While God Sleeps Review
Formed in Mosjøen in 1988, Garlikde’th was 
Tags: garlikde'th, garlik de'th, review, cd, thrash, metal, heavy, rock, black, dark, death, music
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Review: Metallica - Death Magnetic
How long has it been since there was even a glimmer of hope to be had that the former masters of metal, one of the vaunted big four, would release not a great album, but even just a good album? How long has it been since metal fans of a certain age could relish the latest Metallica release? Almost twenty years? Yea, that's a long, long time for the once great metal outfit to languish in a purgatory of mediocrity and irrelevance. I would have never guessed I would be writing these words when I caught them as a young man on the Damaged Justice tour with Queensryche oh so many years ago, but as my teens passed me by, so did the quality output that we were used to getting from Metallica.
The sad truth is, my favorite Metallica albums were all put out before the nineties began, and I have little use for anything that came after the Black album. It pained me to see one of my favorite bands go from trailblazer to sheep following the herd, but it was something I dealt with long ago, and put aside. What else could I do? I found it pathetic to watch Metallica and its members flounder with ridiculous stances on issues that had made them initially, and even worse, releasing music that would have embarrassed a "me too" hard rock outfit. It seemed as if they would never get it together.
But I always hoped. To such end, it was with great interest that I followed the hype around St. Anger, and the rumors of a much awaited return to form, only for my hopes to be once again dashed upon the rocks of disappointment by what can only be seen as a bad, bad mistake. There was nothing about St. Anger that even hinted at the promised return to form, only a misguided attempt to gain some sort of relevance by gravy training on to what they thought would be popular. Once again, Metallica was very wrong.
Tags: metallica, death magnetic, review, reviews, music, metal, thrash, speed, heavy, cd, vinyl, audio, rock, hard
Monday, December 29, 2008
New Arrivals: Death/Black/Heavy Metal CDs
Just got in the music order I've been waiting for from Yosuke over at Nuclear War Now! Productions. My order was shipped quickly, and despite a small inventory problem which was taken care of with the utmost professionalism and quickness, everything was just as I expected it to be. I was really in a death metal mood when I was kicking around the web site, but ended up also adding some black metal and straight up heavy metal to the order as well. Couldn't help myself, just too many choices. I'll be visiting again soon. I picked up the following this time out:
Armour - Sonichouse Tape (American Invasion): I've listened to this one once all the way through, and although it really has a demo sound quality at times, the music is straight up old school heavy metal right from the eighties. Armour really has managed to capture the sound that made all those eighties metal acts great. Worth a listen for heavy metal fans everywhere.
Caligvla - Bukkake Baptism: After one listen to this one, I'm undecided on how much I like or dislike it. It's death metal, there's no doubt about it, but I don't really think it's particularly distinctive in any way. Tends to the "if you aren't looking or hear the pause between songs, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the song has changed" school of death metal, which I don't care for traditionally. I'm going to listen to it a few more times before passing final judgment though.
Octagon - Death Fetish: Again, one spin down, and my initial thoughts on this black metal work is that it has merit, especially as it is more a reminiscence than a sequel to Octagon's first work. This is a collection of songs written and recorded prior to 2002, or in 2002 as the case may be. I have found it to be satisfactory so far.
Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous: Depending on who you ask, you might get very different answers as to exactly which sub genre of extreme metal this band fell into. I say fell since they are no longer an ongoing concern. I've never been particularly good at getting everything in the right genre,you could say one of my many weaknesses :lol:, and as such, I'm just going to call this death metal. Be advised some might very well try to put this one into one of the many "core" genres though. Your mileage may vary. No matter what genre this fits into, I've enjoyed my first listen though. Tempo changes, a little this, a little that, I can tell when the songs change. :lol: All good things. Will have to listen a few more times to get a final opinion, but so far it's looking good.
Midnight - Complete And Total Fucking Midnight: Haven't listened to all of this one yet.
Sol Evil - Sanctus Santanas: Again, haven't listened to this one yet either. Will be soon though.
Lots of stuff to listen too, just the way I like it. Will also be reviewing some other things I have laying around that are just begging to actually be used for once. :lol:
Tags: metal, death, black, heavy, thrash, music, cd, extreme, dark, gothic, headbanger, fun, grindcore
Monday, September 17, 2007
Beer and a Movie: Vacancy
Well, higher expectations were for naught, as the film was very mediocre, and that's being generous to it. It pretty much hit all the cliches. I expected more from a major label release that obviously had more than a dollar fifty spent on it. Even Kate couldn't save it. A more complete review will be coming soon, if I can bring myself to revisit the horror (and not a good horror).
captainzoli
Torchedthreads
