Century Media Records – Page 31

Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle Earth – Review

September 1, 1999

22 tracks, 60 minutes of pure German melodic metal with lush orchestration and vocal harmonies that roll thru the songs like that huge snowball did in Willow.

Borknagar – The Archaic Course – Review

June 1, 1999

Members of Immortal, Hades, Arcturus, Ved Buens Ende, Gorgoroth, and Enslaved. A diverse eight-song release filled with longing, pain, darkness, and revelry.

Arch Enemy – Stigmata – Review

June 1, 1999

Stacks upon high influences from black to death to thrash to classic ’80s metal, emerging from the tunnel as one enigmatic tactical unit of metal might.

Skinlab – Eyesore – Review

June 1, 1999

Along the same lines as new metal roarboyz Machine Head, Skinlab are a headache waiting to happen.

Skinlab – Disembody: The New Flesh – Review

June 1, 1999

Dark, moody passages amidst the roaring repetitions and stomping guitars, Disembody shows Skinlab to be intelligent songwriters as well as sonic destroyers.

Emperor – IX Equilibruim – Interview

June 1, 1999

An interview with vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn

Sacramentum – The Black Destiny – Review

June 1, 1999

Further distancing themselves from Dissection, Sacramentum have fused an old-school death and thrash attack to their distinctive melodic dementia.

Rotting Christ – Sleep Of The Angels – Review

June 1, 1999

An attempt at Goth rock/dark metal, with whisperingly dramatic vocals and subtle guitar riffing, and that’s not what Rotting Christ is best at.

Turmoil – The Process of – Review

June 1, 1999

Pennsylvania’s Turmoil deliver crunching metalcore on The Process of…, stomping the listener’s face with pure aggression.

The Gathering- How to Measure a Planet? – Review

April 1, 1999

The spiffy graphics support this abandonment of metal, and the cryptic waffle-minded lyrics sound great from said hummingbird throat.