Reviews
Our metal reviews on current Metal albums.
Why hasn’t anyone told me about Volumes?
So after browsing youtube I feel I have stumbled upon something awesome. The band is, Volumes. They just released a 6 song EP in November, from what I’ve been reading. And after scoping out all of the tracks, I’m fucking impressed. I’m putting them up there with Cloudkicker-After the Buiral-hybrid-type event. You can even watch [...]
Bless the Child, Arkaik, Goatwhore, Black Dahlia Murder @ Skully’s Reviewed
Beers, shots, joints, local color…loud music. Tuesday was a blast, and I’m finally getting around to writing all this up. Bless the Child did us a solid by starting the show off right…how wrong can you go with three brutal guitarists. Yeah. I definitely looked these guys up again when I got home. You don’t [...]
Martyr has a sweet band logo.
Long story short: I found this band logo. I thought it was pretty bad ass. I listened to the music of Martyr, and I thought, “Yeah, I could be in the mood to listen to this. This is solid.” And it was good. Always awesome to learn about a new listenable band. That’s a good [...]
Check out Sworn Against
I like to keep up on stuff releasing this year, and came across these guys. You might like this song. I did. MOST ENERGETIC REVIEW EVER. Sworn Against Myspace
Welcome to Hell – A Review of Whitechapel’s “A New Era Of Corruption”
Phil Bozeman’s grasp on the evil, violent underbelly of, well, the world, is tighter than Rashad Evan’s chokehold, and has never been more apparent than now throughout the lyrics on Whitechapel‘s new record, A New Era Of Corruption. The album kicks off with what ends up to be one of my favourite tracks “Devolver,” about the devolution [...]
Why do all guitarists look like they are in pain when they play?
I’ve asked this question many times before. But every solo that has been played, an orgasmic face, of either pure enjoyment, or pure pain through your body. Which ever the case maybe, Metromix as thrown together a list of “Guitar Faces Hall of Fame“, and wouldn’t you know, there’s a few legends of metal in [...]
As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise
I credit As I Lay Dying with practically single-handedly pulling me back into metal. After college I went headfirst into my internship 40-50 hours a week and spent the rest of my time trying to make ends meet working morning shifts fulltime at Starbucks. I all but ignored new music in general, instead closing my [...]
Mastodon @ The National
Sunday night, my metal contemporary-and-friend Suzy and I approached the doors of The National in Richmond, VA. “Hi! I should be on the guestlist…?” Two texts, a phone call, a handing-of-my-phone-over-to-the-nice-smiling-chica-running-the-will-call-office-who-then-handed-the-phone-to-her-boss…. And we were in. (New town and a newer venue for me to frequent… you never know if it’s going to come through or [...]
Cannibal Corpse release video of “Priests of Sodom”
In this weird age of practically internet-only/underground support (since the yet-again-demise of Headbangers Ball,) I am often surprised when a new video is made and released by a metal band. Or, actually, any band that doesn’t have a million dollar budget for small promotions such as music videos. And although there doesn’t seem to be [...]