Corporate Avenger – Freedom is a State of Mind – Review February 22, 2002 With mostly whoa-whoa-tempo grooves, Corporate Avenger “grind” it out “real” so suburban kids in pants that don’t fit can do that chicken strut thing.
CKY – Volume 1 – Review February 22, 2002 Noisy, smarter than your average bear, and a good, dark blend of grungy stomp and lethargic riffs, dude.
And Oceans – Allotropic/Metamorphic – Genesis of Dimorphism – Review February 22, 2002 Without a doubt, …And Oceans is excellent, but they don’t twist their black metal into weird enough shapes, like Thorns or Myrksgog.
Circle Of Dead Children – The Genocide Machine – Review February 22, 2002 The Genocide Machine functions on a manifesto accusing every single living person of being a part of a subconscious conspiracy to end all existence.
Slayer – God Hates Us All – Review February 22, 2002 Lots of bands know what sounds cool. Many forget. Slayer figured it out four or five seconds into Reign In Blood and then never forgot.
Cadaver Inc. – Discipline – Review February 22, 2002 One of the best new death/black metal bands: Technically intense and viciously cold. With fellow Norwegians Zyklon, Cadaver Inc. are leading the way.
Burnt By The Sun – Review February 22, 2002 All the enthusiasm and none of the focus that grindcore/tech metal requires, just like The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, every band on Hydra Head.
Sisthema – The Fourth Discontinuity – Review February 22, 2002 They like man/machine topics, favor “cold industrial” production and atmospherics, and the drummer is pretty bad-ass.
Sirius – Spectral Transition – Dimension Sirius – Review February 22, 2002 Millennial black metal, littered with blastbeats, monster keys/symphonics, demon growls’n’snarling, and all the ripping guitar a metalhead could ask for.
Naglfar – Ex Infertis – Review February 15, 2002 Not exactly toppling Cradle of Filth or nuthin’, more kinda chumming up with Darkthrone in the dirtier end of the pool.