Babylon Sad – Kyrie – Review February 1, 1995 Kyrie owes its best moments to the moody shifts and instrumental surrealism that are truly haunting. But I’m not a great fan of cookie monster vocals.
At The Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease – Review February 1, 1995 A hellbent express train loaded with mean guitars tuned low, speedcore drumming and Kreator/Whiplash death vocals. Produced by Tomas Skogsburg.
Widowmaker – Stand by for Pain – Review February 1, 1995 If you still haven’t gotten enough of that mid-’80s metal sound, pick this one up, ’cause guys like Dee Snider aren’t gonna let it die.
Groovezilla – Review February 1, 1995 Groove’s influences are obvious throughout – blending rap, reggae, power funk, and gobs of early Metallica into a sound uniquely their own.
Tree – Plant a Tree or Die – Review December 1, 1994 Plant a Tree or Die may only be thirty (or thirty-three) minutes long, but blasts for every second, so you barely notice how brief it is.
Slowpoke – Framed – Review December 1, 1994 Distorto-ravings to intricately layered powergroove in a Pantera meets Metallica suburban sorta way.
Generation – Brutal Reality – Review December 1, 1994 Brutal Reality is tortured mid-tempo to thrashy rage, littered with the sampled debris of a faithless, technology-driven world.
Fudge Tunnel – The Complicated Futility of Ignorance – Review December 1, 1994 The power they emit is unsettling. There isn’t a death metal act on the earth that FT couldn’t rival in intensity and sheer force of ear assault.
Monster Voodoo Machine – Suffersystem – Review December 1, 1994 12 songs of grinding samples, massive, chugging guitars tuned low and mean, distorted roars (kinda Drown-ish) which, if I could understand, I’d yell, too.
Clawfinger – Deaf Dumb Blind – Review December 1, 1994 Zak raps like a barrel-chested Mike Patton, and the guitarists chug and stutter. Hip-hop/metal energy and blasts of Pantera power.