CD Reviews
Static-X – Project Regeneration Vol. 1
After the high success of last years 20th Anniversary world tour the reunited Wisconsin Death Trip lineup of Static-X has returned with the first of two volumes celebrating the life and music of late singer/guitarist Wayne Static Project Regeneration Vol. 1. Fan reaction proved there’s still a demand for more evil twisted disco. The first volume offers 12 new tracks, with over 20 songs on both re...[Read More]
Raider – Guardian of the Fire
Canada has unleashed the newest thrash onslaught in Waterloo Ontario’s five-piece Raider. Their new full-length “Guardian of The Fire” is eight tracks of raw, old-school thrash modernized for today’s hungry headbanging youth holding the ingredients of their ‘80s and ‘90s forefathers. Perpetual speed, noise and a nuclear assault on the ears and senses was the goal attained. With first single “Boun...[Read More]
POE (Philosophy Of Evil) – Of Humanity and Other Odd Things
The unique creative process that would become POE came from the mind of vocalist Charles Wooldridge, which began churning in late 2012, going from ideas, to snippets to structured sound. Taking the inherit evil concepts produced, joining them with the dark, twisted narratives of Edgar Allen Poe creating an album rich in vintage horror, classic sci-fi and what a horror host program with a backgroun...[Read More]
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic
Annihilator has spent the last three-and-a-half decades churning out consistent, adrenalized thrash ready and worthy of any pit since the VHS and cassette days of ’84. Despite lineup changes, the name has been kept alive by Jeff Waters keeping vintage fans and gaining new ones. Ballistic Sadistic is the newest thrash serving from the Canadian veterans. It’s a fast, technical throwback to earlier w...[Read More]
Nocturnus AD – Paradox
Mike Browning has returned to the sci-fi, speed conjuring universe with Nocturnus AD. A moniker whose namesake combines two band names have returned from the halls of death metal immortals with a new record carrying a modern day, cemented old school sound that started the ‘90s Florida scene. Nocturnus, regarded as one of the most influential death metal bands ever, was laid to rest years la...[Read More]
Per Wiberg – Head Without Eyes
Lou Reed meets Mushroomhead is one way Per Wiberg’s mini collection of emotion bending, brain stirring tunes could be deciphered. Songs that need a few listens to truly understand everything that’s happening within, processing all effects and messages intended. Nuance and detail are used in fine tuned fashion, while the experience is like a slow heavy machine churning out sound, mixed together and...[Read More]
Dark Mirror Ov Tragedy – The Lord Ov Shadows
Dangerous Toys, Carach Angren and Cradle of Filth might be considered an unlikely combination, which perfectly mirrors the musical sentiment of South Korean symphonic black metal brood Dark Mirror ov Tragedy. Conjured to being in 2003, their sixth mixture of off elements takes an old school black metal approach, as the symphony meets the coven. Their music, echoing influence from the basement dun...[Read More]
Zardonic – Become
GWAR and Fear Factory meet Ministry and Mushroomhead would be a unique and apt description of Venezuelan sound maker and mixer Zardonic. He brings a mobile house party, rave and rapid fire industrial light show to every show with the visage of Mushroomhead, the sound of industrial metal and stage attire resembling The Predator. Using every show as his own unique audio carnival, he packs in franti...[Read More]
Mechanical God Creation – The New Chapter
Milan Italy’s death metal acolytes Mechanical God Creation will release the next chapter of their headbanging, growling history in late March via Goatmancer Records. They’ve released “Warface” introducing new material to slap ears around with in the meantime. Created in 2006, they’ve shared stages and festival spots with Behemoth, Septicflesh, Kreator, Dragonforce and Rotting Christ touring throug...[Read More]
KOSM – Cosmonaut
Inspired by the sounds and work of Tool, Mastodon and A Perfect Circle among others Vancouver prog group KOSM have created their own musical H.P. Lovecraft influenced cosmic horror-sci-fi story. Their debut centers on a cosmonauts transformation through time and space, breaking the chains of earthy confines, ascending to an immaterial and omnipotent being. The work of Frank Herbert and Roger Zel...[Read More]
SINE – INSOMNIÆ
Take the after midnight, all night heartbeat of the dance club add flashing spotlight speed adrenaline and the pulse of hundreds of people moving to the sounds vibrating from the speakers and you’ll get the songs Sine has created on debut INSOMNIÆ. She’s amped up the soul of the dance floor to her specifications, pouring sexually, personality, and chemical abnormality into the lyrics and sounds of...[Read More]
Electrocution – Psychonolatry
Italian thrash icons Electrocution return in 2019 with a loud, shredding vengeance releasing the deafening Psychonolatry. A massive musical onslaught containing 11 tracks that will annihilate any speakers and ears in proximity. Spawned in the early ‘90s like many of their classic American contemporaries, they’ve toured their homeland, shaking stages and soil with gore-fiends Carcass, Motorhead and...[Read More]