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Review: Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus (2010)
Who knew that a bunch of Germans would take the fusion of metalcore and melodic death metal, and put the genre’s American ambassadors to shame. Heaven Shall Burn I tend to liken to Dark Tranquillity in that they release album after album of fantastic work. 2008’s Iconoclast was easily one of my favorite albums of [...]
Review: Light This City: The Hero Cycle (2010, Re-release)
So I’ve listened to some really good bands that have a chick as a lead singer, and I’ve heard some bad one’s as well (which I won’t mention, just to save from receiving many, many comments on how I don’t know what I’m talking about), but nothing makes me wanna punch my own brother in [...]
Interview with Orwell!
Not too long ago, I had the chance to listen to Orwell’s newest album, Endeavors, and I liked what I heard. I was able to pull a rich sound from their album, which is something that is becoming harder and harder to do with all of the growth in the genre recently. So if you [...]
Review: Orwell – Endeavors (2009)
I can’t be sure if anyone else does this, but for some reason sometimes I get this ridiculous preconceived notion that just because of a band’s particular geographical location, they might suck. I don’t know why I do that. I feel like I have a pretty level head when it comes to thoughts like that, [...]
Review: Barren Earth – Curse of the Red River (2010)
Barren Earth is the superstar band that no one has been talking about. Containing former/current members of Amorphis, Chaosbreed, Swallow the Sun, Moonsorrow, the debut record Curse of the Red River is set to debut at the end of March, and really, after listening to this thing, it should be on everyone’s priority list because [...]
Check It Out! Kalmah – For the Revolution (2008)
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 [...]
Review: In Mourning – Monolith (2010)
Combining the likes of Opeth, Arcturus, Agalloch and Amorphis, Sweden’s In Mourning are a come out of nowhere success in the underground metal scene. Despite finding their roots as early as 2000, In Mourning have only released two albums since 2008. Monolith, the band’s latest album, is making waves as the next Swedish sensation with [...]
Review: Arsis – Starve For the Devil (2010)
Arsis have had a short, but storied career since their 2004 debut, A Celebration of Guilt, which immediately set them apart from their contemporaries as technically gifted death metallists. Since then, the band, while generally staying in favor with most critics and fans, has experienced a mixed bag of criticism from their next two efforts, [...]
Check Out the New Material By Stigma!
Italian deathcorians, Stigma, have released a few new streaming tracks off of their upcoming album Concerto for the Dead due out on Pivotal Rockordings, and they are damn good! Metalsucks.net is hosting some of this new material, but feel free to check it out over at Stigma’s Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/stigmahc.
Review: Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within (2010)
The debut of the much anticipated Roadrunner self titled release from New York’s Mutiny Within is upon us. Mutiny Within is set to hit stores tomorrow and marks the most “metal” album Roadrunner has released in what feels like ages (contrary to the speculation swirling around that Roadrunner was steering away from metal releases), however, [...]
