I've been with  Kreator  for nearly 40 years at this point; no, not as a member, but as a fan of this institution that has swept the thr...

By title, Excessive Outburst of Depravity might give you an impression that this is somehow going to be a leveling up of filth and aggressi...

Summon the Hordes arrives right on queue, at another 3-year interval which seems to be the efficient standard Protector is maintaining for...

Cursed and Coronated is a difficult record to write about because it is so ridiculously close to its predecessor in production, songwriting...

Like many other thrash bands of the 80s and early 90s, Protector would enter its torpor around the time the genre died down on the world ma...

World of Shit is a project which has existed in the shadows for over two decades, finally coming to full fruition with this new EP Bleeding...

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...

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

Leviathan's Desire has another of those evocative covers where you've got this dad-bod troll or goblin hanging out at at some sort ...

Urm the Mad was the first Protector album I managed to come across out in the wild, and I recall being thrown off a little at the beginnin...

One of the things I always enjoyed about Protector was the fantastical whimsy on some of their earlier cover arts, and in the lyrics, start...

A little over a decade back, I wrote an exhaustive amount of reviews covering the German thrash scene that I came up with through the 80s an...

Khôra 's hauntingly psychedelic-looking debut  Timaeus was a pretty interesting entrant into the more dissonant and modern black metal ...

I'd hate to repeat a comparison I've already made over my last couple Chapel of Disease reviews, but Echoes of Light once again wal...

The third Chapel of Disease full-length (don't expect me to type out the whole title) is probably a smaller stylistic transition than w...

The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art seems like a pretty huge step forward for a sophomore outing, trading in the brash (if appreciable) o...

The gap between the  Leviathan  EP and  Dawn of Depravity  was a bit smaller than that between their two full-lengths, but I actually think ...

The sophomore Rebel Souls outing sees the German/Spanish act digging deeper into that aggressive balance they struck on their 2017 debut Th...

Sodom pays tribute to its own year of formation with a moderately paced new track, lyrics that are self-referential but not cheesy as you...

Vendetta 's earlier 80s material had a lot of personality to it, and Brain Damage stands as one of my favorites in that second or third...