If A Shedding of Skin was my favorite of the earlier Protector catalog, The Heritage was directly on its heels, and in fact some days I m...

As steep of a dive as Set the World on Fire takes from the first two Annihilator albums, I think it's important to evaluate the world ...

If you look at some of the earlier Invasion Records releases, the focus was almost entirely on local death and grind, weighted towards the l...

While the band's debut doesn't strike me as one of the more unique offerings from the earlier years of the Finnish death metal scene...

Head Tales was the Finnish band's first signing through Invasion Records, and while it might look just as dumb or dumber than the previ...

Chameleon is widely considered the nadir of Helloween 's career, even more lowly than Pink Bubbles Go Ape , and I can entirely understa...

  The fossilized Soundchasers on the cover, and the very familiar Perfect Man vibe given off by the opening riffs to "Firestorm" ...

Sexual Affective Disorder was not about to transform Konkhra into your new favorite death metal band of the early 90s, but it's clea...

The cover to this EP reminds me so much of what I loved about thrash and heavy metal back in the 80s...vintage fantastical artwork which s...

While Vio-Lence  largely managed to avoid a number of the 90s pitfalls that many of their thrash peers faced in that decade, their third f...

In the Shadows could be considered a righteous 'comeback' record long before metal comeback records became a thing, as the majorit...

I can only imagine that a lack of availability through the years has crippled Greetings from Hell in terms of its underground popularity,...

Alice in Chain's second EP, Jar of Flies , is an enigma in my personal hierarchy of the band's discography, in that while it is far...

A band so obscure that I'm sure its own members have difficulties trying to recall it, Brazil's Butcher was nonetheless an intere...

Though their first two records revealed obvious hints of experimentation, it wasn't until Dimensions that Believer would fully embra...

Leave it to Voivod to come up with the gimmick to include 3D glasses with a CD, but that is indeed what happened for the limited edition ...

Being that Edge of Thorns marked an enormous transition for the band, Jon Oliva departing from his frontal duties to serve more as a ...

A number of West Coast thrash acts in the late 80s/early 90s decided to test the waters of a live recording through an EP rather than a fu...

There seems to be a fairly overt consensus among thrashers on I Hear Black as the official shark jumping of New Yorkers Overkill , but I ...

My first recollection of Something Wicked was that John Connelly had joined Megadeth in the 90s, because certain songs here reminded me ...