When it comes down to Japanese heavy metal, Loudness are probably the first band you’d think of and while that’s understandable, I’ve always preferred Anthem in terms of ...
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Archives by: Colin
Colin
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I have been listening to metal since the age of... 14 or so. Besides music, I'm also interested in boxing, fitness, meeting new people and enjoy reading about a variety of topics.
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Sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me and I’m often glad that it does. It made me want to try out this Chinese restaurant not too far ...
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Comments Off on Review: Outworld “Promo 2008”
As a progressive metal fan that prefers the earlier incarnation of the style that was brought to life by Fates Warning, it’s hard to find newer progressive metal ...
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Comments Off on Review: Outworld “Outworld” [Replica Records]
During the 1990’s doom/death metal was all over the place in Europe, yet Poland is most likely not one of the countries you’d think of when it comes ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mordor “Prayer to…” [Promus]
Perhaps I’m a bit conservative with my ideas, but if you ask me bands writing more radio friendly material often results into trouble. Not even Fates Warning could ...
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Comments Off on Review: Fates Warning “Parallels” [Metal Blade Records]
Sometimes you stumble upon a unique band that that figuring out their obvious influences results in a massive headache. Enter Dark Millennium, who are a complete oddball of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dark Millennium “Ashore the Celestial Burden” [Massacre Records]
Sometimes you stumble upon an album that’s enjoyable on its own, but compared to what a band had released before just feels a bit pale, you know? Think ...
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Comments Off on Review: Virgin Steele “Invictus” [T&T Records]
One thing that I love about cover artwork is its ability to represent what kind of album you’re dealing with and of course plenty of death metal albums ...
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Comments Off on Review: Suffocation “Human Waste” [Relapse Records]
It’s been some years since John Arch and Jim Matheos formed Arch/Matheos and once I’ve heard the two men would come up with a second album, I wasn’t ...
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Comments Off on Review: Arch / Matheos “Winter Ethereal” [Metal Blade Records]
When one speaks of mid-paced black metal, there are often a variety of scenes and/or bands that come to mind; think of the Greek trinity, the Czech duo, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Argentum “Ad Interitum Funebrarum” [Full Moon Productions]
When band members leave and get replaced, it’s often a question whether the shoes aren’t too big to fill. In Anthem’s case, this wasn’t an issue once vocalist ...
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Comments Off on Review: Anthem “Domestic Booty” [Nexus]
By the mid-90’s doom/death metal was all over the place and Mythological Cold Towers were one of the earlier doom/death metal bands to rise from Brazil. Sphere of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mythological Cold Towers “Sphere of Nebaddon: The Dawn of a Dying Tyffereth” [Sound Riot Records]
Have you ever looked back at the time when you were a kid and your imagination had no limits? Me neither…but if I would, Awaken the Guardian would ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Fates Warning “Awaken the Guardian” [Metal Blade Records]
By the time Virgin Steele started to release concept albums it would only be a matter of time before the band would start to take these things more ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Virgin Steele “The House of Atreus – Act I” [T&T Records]
Long before Amorphis played mellow sauna metal, they were yet another Finnish death metal band with no hints of what was to come in sight. Indeed, listening to ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Amorphis “Privilege of Evil” [Relapse Records]
Whereas plenty of death metal bands from Europe made the switch to something softer and less metallic overtime, Sentenced remain unique in this category when taking into consideration ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Sentenced “North from Here” [Spinefarm Records]
While I’m rather fond of Forest of Equilibrium there are several things unclear about it. Why does that goofy purple creature on the cover artwork sticks out its tongue? Is ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Cathedral “Forest of Equilibrium” [Earache Records]
Once Conception had reached their peak with In Your Multitude they had seriously turned into one of the best progressive metal acts of all times. Surely this would mean more ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Conception “Flow” [Noise Records]
There’s something rather fascinating about the progression Fates Warning made early on in their career. Each year marked a huge step forward for the band and whereas their ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Fates Warning “The Spectre Within” [Metal Blade Records]
By the time Individual Thought Patterns came out, Chuck Schuldiner had already distanced himself from the horror themed sounds that characterized his early records. By no means was ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Death “Individual Thought Patterns” [Relativity Records]
