Terror Propaganda is another of the early Craft records which has so many similarities to the earlier post- Soulside Journey Darkthrone ...

Cold Steel... was an interesting album because it almost does a 180 spin back from the polished Phoenix Rising back to the more feral appe...

The Knocking... is one of their rare, anomalous records that comes around and completely eradicates you, and then has you begging the quest...

  My favorite of the Arcturus records, The Sham Mirrors takes on a sort of opposite side of the coin to La Masquerade Infernale . Where th...

By the time this album arrived, I had already seen Megadeth a couple times in the live setting, so there wasn't any real sense of antic...

The best thing I can say about Waking the Fury is that the WORST thing I can say about Waking the Fury is that the cover is kind of lame, ...

The Germans not only swapped labels to Displeased for their second full-length, but also had a slight shift in style, not that they abandone...

If Stormchoirs was a sign of its times, then Artificial Supernova might be seen as AHEAD of its times. Since three years had already passe...

The Cold White Light , a.k.a. 'The Blue One' was a nice pivot from the dregs of Crimson , and in fact I'd say even the first fiv...

Natural Born Chaos feels like someone took all the components of its predecessor A Predator's Portrait , threw them into a stir fry and...

Treasure Chest is a massive 'fan package' sort of collection which aims to at least give the band's core fanbase something they ...

I've had plenty of positives to say about the 90s Rage records, even if I had spent that decade mildly disappointed, but come 2002 and ...

When Prong re-emerged after a five year hiatus, the longest yet in the band's career, they did so with their first full-length live a...

Mystic Circle had a fairly substantial career, starting in 1992, as one of Germany's earlier black metal acts, and dropping a number ...

Opera IX was not a band with any real weak link back in its heyday, but if there were any member distinctive and striking enough to set o...

Problems persisted with Grief of Emerald' s ability to stand out among a very crowded crowd, but one has to give them a little credit ...

It's got to be discouraging when you've released four records and each is on a separate label, and in fact this curse would plague...

Nihility was the second and final Decapitated album. Okay, that's a lie, but it was really the last to truly deliver on what I felt ...

With a provocative name like Gaschamber, you've really got your work cut out for you in sonically living up to it, something that thi...

2002 would bring about a reversion to a more atmospheric Darkane , which was both reminiscent of their Rusted Angel debut, and at the same...