Album: Aegis
Label: Massacre Records
Year: 1998

California’s Rusty Eye and their album Possessor pose an interesting question: how do you take the horror cliche and not make it so “Hot Topic” like. Looking at the band’s promo poster, the members look like they were given a $500 gift card to their nearest Hot Topic and went to town. Hell, they are [...]

I have to admit, my attention to symphonic and gothic metal this year, female fronted groups in particular, has been terrible. I have found my attentions so focused on the revitalized thrash and traditional scenes, that symphonic and goth metal has seemingly fallen by the wayside of All Metal Resource even after the stellar live [...]

And no that’s not a racial slur, it’s an apt title for Vermont based Nephilim who are working on turning the Burlington landscape into an epicenter of darkness filled with refined melodies. Combining the mainstream sensibilities of Killswitch Engage melodies with black and goth metal grit, Nephilim may hail from the simple land from the [...]

By harnessing the melancholy vocal melodies of Ville Laihiala of Sentenced and Poisonblack fame, Blue Skies Bring Tears brings a whole new meaning to goth styled metal, but strong progressive elements. In fact, the band’s 2008 album Anomaly is not only vocally reminiscent to Sentenced, but riff and atmosphere wise as well. While definitely metal, [...]

Swedish industrial/goth band Deathstars, have released their third release this year called Night Electric Night, combining elements from Rammstein, Cradle of Filth, Marilyn Manson and Clawfinger, the result however, is far from electric. I was surprised to find out that Emil Nödtveidt and Ole Öhman, both former members of Dissection, along with an assortment of [...]

1. Blaze Bayley – The Man Who Would Not Die (2008)
Blaze, like Ripper Owens, is seen by many as a singer for hire who supplemented Iron Maiden’s need for a vocalist while Bruce Dickinson did his own thing. However, while fans hailed the return of Maiden’s classic vocalist, Blaze Bayley seemingly went politely off [...]

Moonspell – Night Eternal (2008)
Bought this one completely blindly– had a gift certificate at a local record store. Listened to 30 seconds of one track at the listening station and decided to pick it up. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the band, like I was, Moonspell is a Portugese goth metal [...]

POISONBLACK – Bear The Cross (New Video)

Perhaps the most underrated aspect of heavy metal today is its diverse subject matter that is articulated into some of the most beautiful, shocking, depressing, stoic and humorous lyrics ever written in music. For the most part, it seems that people, be them fans or otherwise, tend to focus on the heavy aspects of the [...]