It’s a sad day when a Kalmah album isn’t reviewed, because these guys are one of the most under-appreciated bands in the history of metal. Sadly, AMR failed to review this album back when it came out despite being a magnifficent display of modern melo death. Well now I am encouraging all of my readers [...]
I am just going to call these Germans D.A.R., because their name is a bitch to type out (I guess I could copy it, but they needed an acronym anyway). My primary exposure to D.A.R. has been in the form of Allegro Barbaro, the band’s 1999 effort, which despite my owning it, is very hit [...]
Thanks to my buddy Chris for turning me on to these guys! Gorod, in the simplest of terms, is Daath with a funk swing. This is technical death metal that needs to be made aware of, because it seems like no one knows about these dudes. So check out this album and tell your friends [...]
Spinefarm Records is pleased to announce the reissue of Valley Of The Damned and Sonic Firestorm — the first two full-lengths from Grammy nominated UK power metallers Dragonforce! Both titles will street Tuesday February 23, 2010 and feature updated packaging and bonus audio and DVD content.
In honor these re-releases of what I consider the two [...]
Wintereich – Immortal Souls
Soundgarden has announced they are likely going to be doing a reunion tour (full return perhaps?), so in honor of the overpriced tickets for this once great band, I have presented the readers of AMR with the band’s quarky and groovy debut, Ultramega OK which is FAR less mainstream than anything they released 1993 and [...]
Prior to Chuck Schuldiner’s untimely passing, he was beginning to make new waves with his band, Control Denied, which is a U.S. Power Metal band with the same technical wrangling ever so present in latter Death albums (i.e. that trademarked Death guitar and bass tone). Chuck shows with Control Denied that his vision of metal [...]
I never thought of it really, but Soviet Russia, as a concept, was meant to be played in doom metal. The unbearable cold days, totalitarian oppression, and vodka….lots of vodka. What could spell doom more than the KGB dragging you out of a brothel by your toes for cursing Lenin in front of an undercover [...]
Calling these guys overplayed is a bit of an exaggeration at this point since they are still very underground, even in their home nation of Germany. Nonetheless, We Butter the Bread With Butter is bound and determined to become the next pop culture metal sensation, and all I can do is lower my head in [...]
One of the many projects of the legendary Dan Swanö, Odyssey took the concept of progressive metal to the next level. By melding heavy death metal-like riffs with whimsical sound effects and the haunting clean vocals of Dan Swanö, the Odyssey EP, which would end up being the only thing released with this project, was [...]
