Metal/Hardcore Review – Page 67

Beyond Fear – Review

May 12, 2006

Ripper gets to run his own ship. A cool first step, a measure of variety, but maybe just a bit too grimly clanking and double bass-barraged for my liking.

Municipal Waste – Hazardous Mutation – Review

May 5, 2006

Imagine How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today mixed with Crossover and Spreading the Disease, and you’ve got Hazardous Mutation.

Watch Them Die – Bastard Son – Review

May 1, 2006

A raw brand of metal butchery. The band couples Eyehategod’s urgent brutality with intricate, catchy guitars, especially on “Bastard Son” and “Throne of Lies.”

Mushroomhead – Volume 1 – Review

April 28, 2006

They have the decency to keep it under an hour. If you’re not already on board with Mushroomhead’s slightly-above-bad nü-metal, nothing here will convince you.

Manowar – Hell on Earth IV – Review

April 28, 2006

A video of the band’s over-the-top concert and behind-the-scenes behavior was a welcome arrival in 2001, the original Hell on Earth. We didn’t need the sequels.

Sepultura – Live in Sao Paulo – Review

April 28, 2006

Double DVD/CD set has the band storming through 20 songs with Green at the helm, more than capably leading the charge like he was born to do the job.

Doomed Nation – Issue Two – Review

April 28, 2006

If you’re into animal torture, human carnage, and dozens of horror movie death clips sandwiched between stoner/doom/unintelligible metal videos, you’re in luck.

Orgy – Trans Global Spectacle – Review

April 28, 2006

Brutally boring backstage banality. The four music videos say it best: Catchy New Order cover, two good pop-metal originals, descent into bland nü metal trash.

Testament – Live in London – Review

April 28, 2006

Though considerably less hyped than the reunion of “classic” Anthrax, the original line-up of Testament tore through this past summer much more convincingly.

Samhain – Live 1984 Stardust Ballroom – Review

April 28, 2006

The songs are slower, more textual, and less cartoonish in their execution, but definitely traceable to the core interests of Glenn Danzig’s brutish brooding.