Sweden’s In Solitude sound like King Diamond singing over galloping Maiden-style metal. That clicks with more readers than some clusterfuck from a thesaurus.
It’s a fantasy RPG set thousands of years in the past, but the game also exists in an ooooold school RPG dream world where the modern age never came to pass.
It’s a Kiss tribute, released in 2010, by a band who peaked with their first album in ’89. Mean, but true. 15 covers ranging from classic Kiss to who cares?
To produce a work this mature this early portends of good things for the Globes. While Future Self isn’t great or even very good, it certainly has merit.
Samael settles into its trademark midtempo mood and plays things a little too safe at times, but the highlights leave more of an impression than the dips.
These Portland guys are in the sludgy, fuzzy metal camp. The band’s two vocalists will take you back to the golden Oliveri years of Queens of the Stone Age.
18 new songs to fingerfuck your eardrums, from harmonized rampage to doo-wop teenage thrills. Only Blag is getting a handjob under the counter at the malt shop.