While it still imports a lot of the ballistic thrash of previous Protector recordings, A Shedding of Skin felt like a matured album risen ...

There is some alternative universe in which Death SS would have found more international success. They fully embraced the shock rock thing ...

Paradise Lost came out a little too late to capitalize on the three albums before it, or at least that's how I felt back at the time, b...

1991 was a year of peaks and valleys for me musically, as I've no doubt mentioned before in the write-ups for seminal works that everyon...

Shadows of the Past was not an album I took to immediately, because this was not my first exposure to Sentenced , and in hindsight, it just...

Idolatry seems to be the crowd favorite among Devastation 's records, and while I think a lot of that stems from the fact that a whole ...

The Best, The Rest, The Rare really walks the line between being a total label-driven bullshit retread compilation and something that was l...

Even with the advance knowledge that Helloween had adopted a silly side with tracks like "Dr. Stein", I saw the cover and title f...

While Rage has never in my estimation ever put out a truly bad album at any point in its career, the Extended Power EP was probably the fi...

Prove You Wrong is one of those really unique records of that early 90s period which I didn't take to at first, apart from a couple t...

I remember first hearing Blitzspeer when a friend acquired their initial Live cassette out through Epic records, which I thought was unus...

Warfare 's fifth proper full-length was such a bloody good idea at the time, or really, at any time: a British metal band paying tribu...

Energy Vampires are an interesting little obscurity from the Midwest who published an album-length demo back in 1991, to little or no fan...

No Bones About It suffered as a misplaced artifact for around when it came out, largely because the hard music landscape was in such a st...

If the Torture Tactics EP had just stopped with the first track, then it would have sufficed, since the titular lead-in is a brash, energ...

Possession Park is a record I remember more for the place in which I didn't initially purchase it than for any of its musical ingredi...

Hell Symphony was not only my first Root album, but one of the earlier exposures I had to Czech extremity, around the same time I was di...

Worship Him is aesthetically the full-length expansion to the style of the Medieval Prophecy EP, but the intervening years had been put ...

Most New Englanders get their rectums sore when one of their favorite athletes gets traded away to a rival team, but for myself, the hemor...