Music Reviews
Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise
Straight from the depths and darkest corners of the Dayton, Ohio metal family comes the conjuring of 6-piece extreme band Into Pandemonium. They’ve used guitar strings and drum sticks to paint broad genre-crossing strokes tapping black, extreme and technical death with vocal experimentation beyond growls and screams. The young blood drips like a sacrificial chalice fermenting a new brew from a new...[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]
Aria Release Epic Guest from the Kingdom of Shadows DVD
On April 30th Russian veteran metal band Aria played a massive show at the CSKA Arena formally known as the VTB Ice Palace and Legends Arena in Moscow for an all ages, sold out crowd supporting their latest record Curse of the Seas.The bombastic, visually stunning set was filmed multi-cam for a live CD/DVD release, now available. A three-level stage and screen captured what the band is visually ca...[Read More]
Necronomicon – Unus
The sounds and audio spells from Canada’s extreme music benders Necronomicon have carried into late 2019 with a new stirring opus combing styles, structures and genres molded into their world venturing down new pathways, producing a unique product all their own. They’ve gone Beyond Thunderdome so to speak on new record Unus. They’ve made a career pulling the teeth from traditional death metal usin...[Read More]
Survive – Immortal Warriors
Seven albums into their career, Japan’s long standing riff masters Survive have proven neither time, millage or volume can slow them down. If the sound’s on new record Immortal Warriors are any indication, they’re getting louder, faster and heavier with age with vocalist/guitarist Nemo , guitarist Gaku, bassist Sinjilow and drummer Shintarou blasting out new audio plunder. Blending thrash, new an...[Read More]
Liv Sin – Burning Sermons
The sister of sin has continued her work of delivering loud, brash, harsh and violent vocals to a group of new songs summoned as Burning Sermons. While it’s yet to be determined what gospel she’s spreading. Building off the cindering, possibly cloven heels of Follow Me, Sin’s returned with more, yelling flame spit messages for the congregated masses. Liv Sin have expanded their universe to include...[Read More]
Another Day Dawns : A Different Life
This year marks nine years of dedication, hard work and constant shows by Lehighton, Pennsylvania’s hard rock outfit Another Day Dawns. Playing covers to start, the addition of singer Dakota Sean moved them toward original inspiration with material coming fast gaining attention and a following around the area. Over time they earned opening spots with Avatar, Sammy Hagar, Godsmack, 5 Finger...[Read More]
The Scabby Ghouls Come Forth
Since the early days horror and punk have had a side by side, lurid, on stage and screen relationship. Horror and all its monstrous, bloody creations have shared inspiration with painted up performers donning the look of the undead as mobile corpses, dressed up or rotting, have shared screen time with humans in countless movies since the golden age of film. Whether it was flesh ripping zombies or ...[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]
Dawn of Ashes – The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam)
From sunny and tan Los Angeles comes a dark new offering from Dawn of Ashes infested with wrath, ready to reign. Vocalist Kristof Bathory brings back the classic, old-school industrial aggro-tech signature sound of Dawn Of Ashes. The past few years brought turbulence and change for Bathory but he’s weathered storms and challenges, keeping his vision intact, conjuring up new alchemy-ridden creatio...[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]