While many fans of Acid Bath may arch an eyebrow at Agents of Oblivion’s sauntering dirge rock, anyone drawn like moths to a flame to “Dead Girl” will get it.
Seeing as these Germans were pioneers in the melodic speed metal scene of the mid-’80s, it’s kinda cool to see them dig back even deeper to their roots.
Another slab of hatred and agony with which these Swedish forefathers can prove their worth, and all you kiddies out there should definitely pick it up.
The collaboration between Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer and Blind Guardian’s Hansi Kursch. Quality, serious-minded power metal riffs and creatively fresh harmonies.
Darkseed write like the second-stringers they are, stabbing and shooting at what is a miserable metal quagmire and coming up covered in delete bin swamp mud.
Continuing down the pathway of the underrated Odd Fellows Rest, Kirk, Sammy and crew have inflicted more Trouble into their fire-the-brimstone doomskullery.