As many of you know now, my top album of 2008 was Scar Symmetry’s Holographic Universe which I thought was absolutely stunning on so many levels. Recently however, the metal world has been hit with some sad news with the vocalist of Scary Symmetry, Christian Ãlvestam parting ways with his cohorts. Soon after, it has [...]
A nice dose of some Swedish melodic death metal for your Saturday afternoon.
Album: Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Year: 1997
Album: Year of Desolation
Label: Prosthetic Records
Year: 2007
Becoming the Archetype is part of a fresh breed of extreme metal popping up America that is truly pushing the proverbial envelope about what is fresh and edgy. Taking the best parts of metalcore, the extremity of death metal, and the melodies of electronic music, this new breed following in the footsteps of all too [...]
Album: Rise of the Tyrant
Label: Century Media
Year: 2007
Ok so it may be a little cheesy, but Amon Amarth’s riffs are a force to be reckoned with. Cody’s review of the album can be read here.
This video is hilarious and wicked cool at the same time!!! Enjoy…
Amon Amarth “Twilight Of The Thunder God”
Album: Overcome
Label: Prosthetic Records
Year: 2008
2008’s Overcome brought to you by the darlings of American melodic death metal, All That Remains, leaves me in a conundrum. On one hand, the brutality of previous albums is not as apparent, replaced now with a much more poppy, mainstream sound. However, unlike other equally guilty parties like Trivium and Five Finger Death Punch, [...]
After being exposed to the shitstorms known as Death Magnetic and The Crucible of Man, I couldn’t wait to feast my ears on the brand new Amon Amarth album Twilight of the Thundergod. Along with Dark Tranquillity, Opeth and a few other bands, Amon Amarth in the past 5 years or so has been about [...]
1. Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (1992)
I am a huge fan of Dio era Black Sabbath, and while Dehumanizer isn’t the greatest of the three albums Dio did with Sabbath, it is indeed a great album that is painfully under appreciated. What I find most telling about this album is that it maintains an undeniably [...]
