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 [...]
The world of American Thrash Metal has a lot of influences, coming from all over the country. Bands come and go, but few have done what Overkill, hailing from New Jersey, has done over the years. Their sound has been shaking the speakers of listeners since 1980, and with the release of their latest album [...]
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, [...]
Chicago’s Lair of the Minotaur’s new album may be called Evil Power, but the sound is more like “raw power.” Combining the ferocity of blackened thrash metal with the grinding style of doom metal, Lair of the Minotaur are really a sound to behold.
Some might see Evil Power as an album that takes queues from [...]
While traditional metal is just becoming en vogue once again in America, it has become relatively commonplace in Europe and Japan to see these retro bands of this type. One such band, Finland’s Armour has released a brand new album that is truly classic metal incarnate. Echoing bands such as Running Wild, W.A.S.P., Exciter, Grim [...]
Very few times in my “career” as a critic have I come across an indie metal band that has legitimately WOW’ed me, but Worcester, Massachusett’s Evince Mythos have done just that ten fold. Evince Mythos plays a brand of symphonic power metal that is very Euro-centric (and considering virtually the entire genre of symphonic metal [...]
Legendary German power metallers, Gamma Ray, are back with their latest studio effort since 2007’s Land of the Free II which AMR’s Cole panned as stereotypically awful power metal. I consider myself to be a bit of a power metal buff, so I figured I’d take point on this review and see if Kai and [...]
South Carolina has brought forth their sons, Through the Eyes of the Dead, for another dip into the death metal breakdown blizzard. I have read many critical pieces on this record (and some positive, mostly from the same players that would play any scene album), so I have been looking forward to wrapping my head [...]
Greece’s Need have released their second full length, Siamese God, and it certainly shows promise. Containing a band full of members that clearly know what their doing, Need are looking to make a statement, however, is talent alone enough to make a statement true?
On one hand Need represents a fast paced, well orchestrated progressive metal [...]
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, [...]
