Album: Come Death
Label: Earache Records
Year: 2007

Lordi’s management has sent me info about an interesting contest which is quite in tune with the Halloween season. In light of their new CD coming out on the 28th, RedMusic.com is hosting a Horror Video contest. In order to qualify, follow the following instructions:
1.) Log onto www.redmusic.com/lordihorror where you will enter your cell number [...]

So, as with the last few years, 2008 has been ripe with Marvel madness (namely the excellent Iron Man), and now, movie goers get to give the comic book publishers another go around with the The Punisher saga, and this time John Travolta ain’t in it. Thank God! Accompanying the new movie entitled The Punisher: [...]

Pure transcendental black metal is what Liturgy one man founder Hunter Hunt-Hendrix describes his sound as. Is this based on religious implications, his choice of instrumentation, or both? It’s hard to really place Hunter’s motivations for describing his music in such a way, but by his use of pulsating electronic tones, and standalone guitar riffs [...]

Unearth has been a stand out for me in both the live and recorded environments. It takes a special band to really replicate their album into an amazing live act, and Unearth on every single one of their albums, has done just that. Recently, the metalcore juggernauts from Mass, have released their 2008 album The [...]

Here are some albums from the last few months that we’ve missed…
1. All Shall Perish – Awaken The Dreamers
Oakland, CA Deathcore stars, All Shall Perish, have released their third album in 2008 and it follows right in the footsteps of their previous release, The Price Of Existance. Awaken The Dreamers takes the style of [...]

Classic Era
1. Metal Magic (1983)
Pantera’s first, and definitely chalk full of classic heavy metal. “Ride My Rocket” is clearly very KISS influenced, but still has a bunch of NWOBHM backbone. “I’ll Be Alright” is a perfect classic heavy metal track with NO glam influences.. Realistically, back then, this would have been viewed as a [...]

So I finally got around to viewing the much anticipated documentary about the origins and life of thrash metal. Since I am a huge fan of thrash, this documentary quickly became a must in my Netflix queue, so when I acquired it today in the mail, I must say I was quite excited to finally [...]

Well that didn’t take long. This is it folks, the end of deathcore and metalcore as you know it. The Acacia Strain and Emmure have met their match. From this day forth, deathcore will become extinct and its all due to the English subverts known as Bring Me the Horizon. While not as heavy or [...]

1. Norma Jean – The Anti Mother (2008)
I have heard many bad things about this album, in fact, after initially listening to a couple of songs, I wrote this album off as another melodic metalcore assraping. However, for this review, sitting down at my computer and thoroughly listening to the Anti Mother, I have [...]