Review: Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome

Review: Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome
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Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome  Metal Blade Records Ooh, tricky—I thought by the title and statue on the cover, this would be gothic metal or power metal, but it’s just another piece-of-shit screamo metalcore band. Fuck this waste of plastic. And I wish these fags would stop trying to trick people into thinking their

Review: With Passion – In the Midst of Bloodied Soil

Review: With Passion – In the Midst of Bloodied Soil
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With Passion In the Midst of Bloodied Soil  Earache Records With Passion = Bathroom after lots of Mexican food It’s hit-and-miss with Earache Records anymore. It seems as though they are attempting to out-cheese Century Media and Metal Blade by signing SHIT!!! If this were Tatooine, I’d definitely be a Sith, as I’ve so easily

Review: Testament – Seen Between the Lines DVD

Review: Testament – Seen Between the Lines DVD
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Testament Seen Between the Lines DVD Escapi Testament = Slayer + Exodus + (old) Metallica An entire concert as well as video clips. The traditional stuff for a DVD these days, yes? Originally only available back in the early 90s on video, now it’s on DVD. Testament was much along the lines of Exodus back

Review: Ritual Carnage – I, Infidel

Review: Ritual Carnage – I, Infidel
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Ritual Carnage I, Infidel Osmose Productions Ritual Carnage = Hellchild + Hellbastard + Exodus There’s a lot of declaration in metal these days—“I, Monarch!” “I, Infidel!” What’s the deal? Anyway, stuff from Japan usually kicks ass, and there’s no exception here. This is good, solid thrashing death in the late 80s style complete with an

Review: Phazm – Hate at First Seed

Review: Phazm – Hate at First Seed
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Phazm are a French band that sound more like Amebix than any of their death metal contemporaries. … read more

Review: Origin – Echoes of Decimation

Review: Origin – Echoes of Decimation
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Clocking in with nine tracks (no intros!) in just under half an hour, you might suspect that Origin’s newest release in well over five years is fast. … read more

Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh

Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh
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MORTICIAN RE-ANIMATED DEAD FLESH  Mortician Records Mortician = Do you really need this? Okay- Cannibal Corpse + Napalm Death + Incantation   The seventh album from the Relapse Records-professed “World’s Heaviest Band” is unleashed upon the world! Imagine tuning your guitar so low it sounds like a low-tuned bass, and your bass tuning is so

Review: Lost Soul – Chaostream

Review: Lost Soul – Chaostream
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Lost Soul Chaostream Earache Records   By the horns of Satan, I had to listen to this album twice just to make sure it was as insanely kick ass as I first thought it was! INDEED it was! When you hear Lost Soul, you will KNOW that you have been brutalized and punished to the

Review: Impaled – Death After Life

Review: Impaled – Death After Life
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Impaled Death After Life Century Media Records   As I scraped shredded meat off of the scalpels and saws on my block, I noticed the pus oozing from the new Impaled disc. Pathological waste in the form of oozing riffage at once encrusted my eardrums. It was at this point that I deduced the flesh-shredding

Review: Hell-Born – Legacy Of The Nephilim

Review: Hell-Born – Legacy Of The Nephilim
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Hell-Born Legacy of the Nephilim Conquer Records Hell-Born is a band from Poland that sounds remarkably close in style to Japan’s Hellchild. This album has a definite thrash metal feel in the guitar playing, as well as the way the vocalist belts out the lyrics, but that’s as close to thrash as this gets. The