Review: Chinchilla

Chinchilla "“Madness”" (Metal Blade) Rejoice!  For those of you who never thought there’d be a proper cross over between Manowar and Pretty Maids, well you thought wrong, damn you!  This is pure...

Review: Masquerade

Masquerade "“Flux”" (Metal Blade) I’'m not sure what it means, but I had the hardest time being able to appreciate this album because it is on Metal Blade.  I thought all they did was metal, so...

Review: Dave Brokie Experience

Dave Brockie Experience "“Diarrhea of a Madman”" (Metal Blade) I’m not sure what to expect when an album from Gwar’s frontman opens up with a song that seems to be a cover of a The Knaack song, but...

Review: Vomitory

Vomitory "“Revelation Nausea”" (Metal Blade) Fast, brutal: Death Metal. Non stop aggression from start to finish, the only respite is the silence between tracks.   The major downfall of the wall of...

Review: Catastrophic

Catastrophic "“The Cleansing”" (Metal Blade) My first impression of Catastrophic was they sound incredibly like the ground breaking  American Death metal Obituary, and for good reason.  In the wake of...

Review: Flotsam and Jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam "“My God”" (Metal Blade) Yeah, I’m sure every dumb fuck out there is getting big fat jollies by doing exactly what I’m about to do... My God?  My God is right!  It’s exactly what...

Review: Hades

Hades "DamNation" (Metal Blade) Hades, like early David Bowie, is probably best played at maximum volume, but because I live in a ghetto lord’s tracing paper-walled apartment complex, I’ll have to...

Review: Vomitory

Vomitory "Blood Rapture" (Metal Blade) The album cover art might come from the old school of having your slightly talented friend who really wants to do something for the band draw the picture for the...

Review: Vader

Vader "Revelations" (Metal Blade) Vader has been on the blasting doomified death metal scene for many long years but somehow their particular death metal path and mine had never crossed until the day of...

Review: Manowar

Manowar "Warriors of the World" (Metal Blade) Manowar just hasn't been the same since September eleventh.  Like the rest of us they were deeply affected by the images of sudden violent warfare waged...