REVIEW: YNGWIE MALMSTEEN – “Parabellum”
Yngwie Malmsteen positions his new record as the result of being able to take “much longer in the studio, both to write and record,” due to the pandemic, and he…
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Andrew Small
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Andy Small, dedicated father and husband, consumer of delicious craft beer, office drone, Lovecraft fanatic, occasional writer and musician and heavy metal acolyte, resides in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. He, for one, welcomes our new insect overlords.
REVIEW: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – “Blood In The Water”
Flotsam and jetsam the marine debris is defined as “useless or discarded objects.” Plagued by a series of bad breaks including label problems and dubious production choices, Flotsam and Jetsam…
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REVIEW: THE END MACHINE – “Phase2”
Let’s get down to brass tax. I love every Dokken record up to and including ‘The Beast from the East,’ and George Lynch is arguably my favorite metal guitarist. I…
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REVIEW: WITHERFALL – “Curse Of Autumn”
Witherfall’s genre-bending new record does not necessarily defy classification, but to pin it down to a specific metal subgenre does the record an injustice. A necessary evil, subgenre categorization allows…
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REVIEW: TRIBULATION – “Where The Gloom Becomes Sound”
“In Remembrance” kicks-off Tribulation’s new record at the beginning of the end. A requiem for the living, the narrator remembers being “led by the devil, a possession in blood, a…
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REVIEW: CARCASS – “Despicable” [EP]
Taking its name from the 1974 Spanish-Italian answer to the seminal ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ the riff salad of “The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue,” which kicks off…
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REVIEW: TOMORROW’S RAIN – “Hollow”
Tomorrow’s Rain’s debut record kicks off with the one-two 6/8 punch of “Trees” and “Fear. These tracks serve as good indicators of what follows—ambient, almost pastoral doom that crawls along…
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REVIEW: ALCATRAZZ – “Born Innocent”
Beginning with his tenure under Ritchie Blackmore on Rainbow’s divisive ‘Down to Earth’ record, Graham Bonnet has long been associated with some of the greatest guitarists in metal history. Most…
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REVIEW: SORCERER – “Lamenting Of The Innocent”
Once a distant memory, Sweden’s Sorcerer were hopeless to escape the call of the void and jumped back in headlong in 2010 after an 18-year hiatus. Never a band to…
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REVIEW: PARADISE LOST – “Obsidian”
Obsidian glass is characterized as hard, brittle, and amorphous; and as such, given to fracturing into sharp edges. Veteran doom dealers Paradise Lost’s powerful new record ‘Obsidian’ unquestionably lives up…
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