Album Review: Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic

Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic January 24th, 2020 Thrash Metal Silver Linings Music / Neverland Music Ottawa, Ontario, Canada No band other than Razor typifies the feeling of 'Canadian thrash' other than Annihilator. There's something about the technical yet catchy, strangely cold sound of Jeff Waters' riffs that have kept me coming back for years ever since …

Album Review: Body Count – Carnivore

Body Count - Carnivore March 6th, 2020 Rap Metal / Hardcore Century Media Records Los Angeles, California, USA My first exposure to Body Count was their slightly modified version of the Suicidal Tendencies classic "Institutionalized" which I have to admit I enjoyed quite a bit. Besides that I had also been made aware of their song …

Album Review: Grand Magus – Wolf God

Grand Magus - Wolf God April 19th, 2019 Traditional Heavy Metal / Doom Metal Nuclear Blast Records Stockholm, Sweden As with many of the artists I've reviewed in the last year who have new albums that came out in 2019, Grand Magus is one whose existence I was certainly aware of but who I wasn't really …

Album Review: Tombs – Monarchy of Shadows

Tombs - Monarchy of Shadows February 28th, 2020 Black Metal Season of Mist Brooklyn, New York, USA Tombs has what is one of the most interesting genre shifts in the metal mythos, at least to my knowledge. Starting out firmly in the realm of post metal in the vein of bands like Cult of Luna or …

Album Review: Lucifer – Lucifer III

Lucifer - Lucifer III March 20th, 2020 Occult Rock / Doom Metal Century Media Records Berlin, Germany Going into this album I honestly had only given Lucifer a single shot beforehand. It was their debut full length record, appropriately titled Lucifer, that I had decided to check out, but ultimately I felt like it didn't really grab …