Ensiferum “Two Paths” Metal Blade records Ensiferum are one of my favourite bands from one of my favourite metal countries, Finland. I’ve been lucky enough to see them ...
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Archives by: Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas
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Metalhead, mother, mathematician and slave to two of the world’s most adored cats. Has been around metal for longer than might seem feasible, but it’s never long enough!
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Enslaved – ”E” (Nuclear Blast records) Two things surprised me about E: it’s Enslaved’s fourteenth release (it must be, it says so on their facebook page) and the ...
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Sepulchral Whore – ”Everlasting Morbid Delights” (Metal Ways Records) I might be a bit peculiar, but I like to listen to a release first, before I read the ...
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Threshold “Legends of the Shires” Nuclear Blast records Threshold maintain their relationship with Nuclear Blast, and vocalist Glynn Morgan is with them for this album. For anyone (else) ...
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Anguis Dei “Ad Portas Serpentium” Svart Records Now I always thought that I reviewed music. But clearly I’ve been getting it wrong for a while now, as I’ve ...
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WINTERSUN “The Forest Seasons” Nuclear Blast records Sometimes, when you’re given an album to review, you get a picture in your head of how it all came about. ...
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Alter Bridge “World Inferno” (Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities) Napalm Records It’s amazing the information that you can cull from the Internet these days. A quick ...
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Entrails “World Inferno” Metal Blade records Swedish death metal from Entrails. Those five words give you a massive clue about the rest of the review. This is their ...
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Scargod “Stay in Track!” 7Hard Austrian extreme melodic metallers Scargod have been on the scene since 2013 and produced three full-length albums to date, with Stay in Track! ...
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Mordatorium “Obsessed with Death” Mordatorium hail from Chicago, but you probably wouldn’t guess that from listening to “Obsessed With Death”, which is their third release (discounting the two ...
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WEDNESDAY 13 “Condolences” NUCLEAR BLAST records Condolences is the sixth studio album from Wednesday 13, and his first for Nuclear Blast. It further interprets his schlock, horror theme ...
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IMPURE WILHELMINA “Radiation” Season of Mist records Surprisingly, I hadn’t come across Geneva based Impure Wilhelmina before I had this album to review. They tick a lot of ...
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DESULTORY “Through Aching Aeons” Pulverised Records All good things come to an end. This album is the final studio album from Stockholm death metallers Desultory. They’ve split up ...
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ALESTORM “No Grave But The Sea” Napalm Records Alestorm single-handedly invented the concept of “pirate metal”: an enthusiastic blend of power and folk metal, all with a pirate ...
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Cult of Luna “Years in a Day” Live from La Gaité Lyrique, Paris Indie Recordings This video release was filmed at La Gaité Lyrique in Paris, a 750 ...
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ROGGA JOHANSSON “Garpedans” Chaos records Rogga Johannson’s latest release, Garpedans, has a bit of history behind it. It started out as the follow up to the third Demiurg ...
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