Raging out from the Netherlands comes the thrash act Distillator, a speed-focused project that took formation back in 2013. They’ve dropped two full-lengths and a split since then, ...
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Archives by: Nichalas Edward
Nichalas Edward
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Metal lover and rock 'n roll junkie. Besides headbanging, I lift, run, read and party. Huge drinker, I also love horror.
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Grave Dust came across my radar when seeing a post by the frontman of their fellow death metallers Coffin Rot. Hailing from Portland as well, they create an ...
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Comments Off on Review: Grave Dust “The Pale Hand” [Children of the Abyss / Crypt of the Wizard]
I need to give this review a bit of a preface. Warbringer has never really been a thrash act that I jumped at. I’ve always found their brand ...
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Comments Off on Review: WARBRINGER “Weapons of Tomorrow” [Napalm Records]
Speed metal is a pretty cut-and-dry genre. Fast riffs, fast picking, fast energy, right? So when something comes along and removes itself from the norm by adding its ...
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Comments Off on Review: SÖLICITÖR “Spectral Devastation” [Gates Of Hell Records]
Coming from the rotting tombs under Westerstede, Germany rises another death metal project that sucked me in upon the first listen of their latest EP titled The Dissolution ...
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Comments Off on Review: Graveyard Ghoul “The Dissolution of Flesh” [Lycanthropic Chants / Fucking Kill Records]
A little warning in advance, I would go ahead and mark this under the “give it time to grow on you” category. Acolytes Of Moros are a Swedish ...
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Comments Off on Review: Acolytes of Moros “The Wellspring” [Nine Records]
What a fool I am for sleeping on Traveler last year. Their debut album is pretty magnificent, but it would have made the newest effort even more fun, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Traveler “Termination Shock” [Gates of Hell Records]
Let me just start by talking about how fucking beautiful this album art is. Upon seeing something like that and discovering that it’s blackened speed metal, I had ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hellish Grave “Hell No Longer Waits” [Helldprod Rec.]
Slow and menacing riffs with horrendous vocals is something that I can easily get behind. Dropping the frequency to the depth of funeral doom is definitely treading new ...
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Comments Off on Review: Khazad-dûm “Hymns from the Deep” [I Hate]
There are very few records that grew on me at the rate that Spectral Voice’s debut album did. I only found out about it within the past couple ...
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Comments Off on Review: Spectral Voice “Eroded Corridors of Unbeing” [Dark Descent Records]
I truly have no idea why I’m only stumbling upon Manacle now, two years following their debut record. No Fear To Persevere avoids all of the redundancies that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Manacle “No Fear to Persevere…” [Hard and Heavy Records, No Remorse Records]
At the rate that Haunt puts out albums and EPs, it’s damn-near impossible to keep up with them. Both of their full-lengths Burst Into Flames (2018) and If ...
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Comments Off on Review: Haunt “Mind Freeze” [Shadow Kingdom Records]
Fitting in with the traditional heavy metal revival bands, Ice War make a very stripped-down brand that only really scrapes from the bottom of the classic influences. Their ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ice War “Manifest Destiny” [Dying Victims Productions]
Gatecreeper are a band that have a small surge of hype around them, and considering they’re coming to my home-town, I felt it my duty to look into ...
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Taking formation back in 2015, Black Road rose from Chicago Illinois, and they deliver a brand of stoner/doom that’s surprisingly accessible with a ghostly aura attached. Two years ...
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Comments Off on Review: Black Road “Witch of the Future” [DHU Records]
I’ve touched on many albums in my time as a reviewer that have made me end with something like “I don’t really like this, but you should listen ...
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Comments Off on Review: Midnight Priest “Aggressive Hauntings” [Metal On Metal Records]
The first Municipal Waste full-length is an anomaly that is far removed from what comes to mind when hearing them. I thought it was worth going back and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Municipal Waste “Waste ‘Em All” [Six Weeks Records]
Born out of the late ‘80s thrash movement that resided on the techy side came a band known as Defiance. One with a smaller but still sizeable following, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Defiance “Product of Society” [Roadrunner Records]
Earlier this year, I covered Necrosexual’s most recent EP, and while I was a bit skeptical about the antics and layout, it proved to be worthwhile. Recently, I ...
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RidingEasy Records has been delivering some great stuff this year between Zig-Zags, Bus and my latest discovery Hell Fire. The band has been around for about a decade, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hell Fire “Mania” [RidingEasy Records]
