RECKLESS LOVESpirit Spinefarm (2013)Rating: 3/10 Finland’s Reckless Love is a band you’ll either love or hate. They are very much part of the whole metal revival scene, with numerous bands – of varying genres – from thrash to glam. These bands hope to reinvent the steel and bring back those glorious days of the 80s […]
GORGUTSColored Sands Season Of Mist (2013)Rating: 8.5/10 Gorguts are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest death metal bands of all time. Their disconcerting brand of nihilistic, technical death metal has battered the senses since their inception in 1989. The outfit, hailing from Québec in Canada, began life as a punishing death […]
IRON JAWSGuilty Of Ignorance Pure Steel (2013)Rating: 7/10 Iron Jaws are an Italian quartet who likes to indulge in old school thrash that actually works rather than irritates. Guilty Of Ignorance is the second full-length opus from this band, a follow-up to 2010’s Louder Is Not Enough. This is the sort of frantic moshing madness […]
STAINLESS STEELMetal Machine Pure Underground (2013)Rating: 7/10 Can it get more metal when a band is called Stainless Steel and their album’s title is Metal Machine?! You metal purists out there may be delighted to know that these guys formed back in the murky mid-80s and released their debut opus, In Your Back, in 1985. […]
DEVILDRIVERWinter Kills Napalm (2013)Rating: 8.5/10 It’s hard to believe that DevilDriver’s sixth album is upon us. When the Southern California band, fronted by then ex-Coal Chamber mainman Dez Fafara, hit the scene most extreme metal fans were apprehensive at best. Fafara and company have proven over the years though that they are one of the […]
ANNIHILATOR – No Surrender Anthony Morgan August 2013 Jeff Waters August 2013 studio full-length Feast – the 14th overall from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada-based thrash metal outfit Annihilator – was preceded by May 2010 outing Annihilator, that album’s respective predecessor (Metal) also having arrived three years prior in April 2007. Annihilator’s 14 studio affairs were released […]
MICHAEL MONROEHorns And Halos Spinefarm (2013)Rating: 8.5/10 “Coulda been, woulda been, shoulda been dead” croons Helsinki rock god Michael Monroe on his eagerly anticipated eighth studio outing, Horns And Halos. As expected, it’s another gem of a record that combines that smooth-toned swagger, glam rock stomp and punky attitude with a spring of sexy sax […]
GRAVE Release ‘Morbid Ascent’ EP August 26th, 2013 Swedish death metal group Grave issued EP Morbid Ascent on August 26th, 2013 in Europe through Century Media Records in digital and vinyl format. The label also scheduled a digital only North American release for September 17th. Sold at various stands at the Party.San and Summer Breeze […]
BOMBUS Release Second Studio Album ‘The Poet And The Parrot’ August 26th, 2013 Gothenburg, Sweden-based metal group Bombus issued second full-length album The Poet And The Parrot in Europe on August 26th, 2013 through Century Media Records. The label scheduled North American release for September 17th. The Poet And The Parrot was issued as a […]
THE MORE I SEE Release Fourth Album ‘The Disappearing Humans’ August 26th, 2013 Peterborough, United Kingdom-based metal group The More I See issued fourth full-length album The Disappearing Humans on August 26th, 2013 in Europe through Earache Records. Century Media Records / Earache Records also scheduled a North American release for October 1st. Mixed by […]
