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Review: The Sword – Warp Riders (2010)
The Sword, along with a few other players, are largely responsible for bringing the stoner riffs to the forefront of metal. Many elitists panned them as being coattail riders, or posers who went from indie to stoner metal in a blink of an eye. Truth be told, The Sword were merely in the right place [...]
Review: RAM – Lightbringer (2009)
Along with Enforcer, RAM are the other big force in traditional metal revivalism in Sweden, however, unlike the former, they are a bit lacking in some areas, specifically in the vocal department.
Sounding a bit like Mark Osegueda From Death Angel and Kai Hansen of old school Helloween, vocalist Oscar Carlquist attempts to “sing,” but instead [...]
Review: Black River – Black N Roll (2009)
Swarmy, dirty, gritty and groovy heavy metal with a stoner bend…out of Poland? Pardon me for being surprised, but I am just so used to hearing the likes of Vader and Decapitated blowing out my eardrums with succinct death metal. Not only are these Poles, known as Black River, a relatively unknown commodity from Warsaw, [...]
Review: Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth (2010)
I get it. I get why people have liked Danzig after all these years. Songs like “Mother,” “Twist of Cain” and “Left Hand Black” are all very affective songs, with each of them exuding a dark atmosphere that few bands at that time were equaling. Hell, after years of putting out material, Glenn opted to [...]
Review: Enforcer – Diamonds (2010)
What was lacking on Enforcer’s Into the Night, the debut from these Swedish classic metal upstarts, has been smoothed out with age. After taking a year to tour and refine their sound, Enforcer are back with their 2010 follow up Diamonds, and it represents what ever sophomore effort should be, a new and improved version [...]
Review: Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons (2010)
It never ceases to amaze how much Darkthrone has transformed in recent years. Starting off as a death metal band, evolving into an out and out black metal act in their mid years, and now an amalgam of crust hardcore punk, black metal and traditional metal. Also worth noting is the band’s complete about face [...]
New Artist Watch: Toxic Federation
The English classic metal band Toxic Federation is just another new entry into the revitalized classic genre. However, unlike their Swedish and more recently, American counterparts, Toxic Federation isn’t about being completely retro, instead they infuse the classic sound with modern pop-metal appeal which leaves them with an edgy, but definite mainstream sound that is [...]
Review: Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony (2010)
The power metal is back ladies and gents! So many people frowned upon the last Avantastia because of it’s lean towards more traditional melodic styled metal. While I thought The Scarecrow was possibly the best Tobias has created, it was definitely less power metal inclined. Despite my immense interest in The Scarecrow, there were a [...]
Review: Bullet For My Valentine – Fever (2010)
Whelp, it’s finally happened, Bullet For My Valentine have finally admitted to themselves and now their fans, that they are not the melodic death wonder boys they attempted to convince the metal world of. 2010’s Fever is, at the very most in terms of heaviness, traditional metal with a slightnu-metal bend; gone are the days [...]
Review: Icarus Witch – Draw Down The Moon (2010)
For the amount of time I’ve been listening to metal music, I have enjoyed a lot of Heavy Metal bands with both old and new sounds from the industry. Icarus Witch’s Draw Down The Moon definitely has an older style sound to it, but it also has something else with their sound. Boring.
Icarus Witch, hailing [...]
