Most of the bands sound like halfway decent metal bands who might be good on their own terms, but they just can’t match the gory’n’glory of the almighty Zombie.
Quality is high, unknowns Mystic Force and Psycho Scream doing well, bigshots like Deceased and Memory Garden get the nod. Soilwork whip “Egypt” into a frenzy.
Pretty dark, weird, aggressive, and diverse. Some tracks are whispered schlock, some are ambient nightmare, and some are mediocre metal with loud dance beats.
As usual, there’re a few moments of beauty, and a lot of bands you’ve never heard of doing covers of songs that were just fine before they touched them.
As if Kiss weren’t enough of a parody, here’s the Dwell Records treatment of Kiss classics, as performed by mediocre death’n’growl bands you’ve never heard of.
Not just eighth-rate death metal, there’s garage, semi-industrial, punk, hard rock, and, um, bad bar rock bands. Most choose material from the first albums.
11 Iron Maiden classics spanning the years covered by underground bands ranging from neo-powermetal to traditional growl-and-snort death metal to avant doom.
Compiled by Raul (Dwell) and Rayshele Teige (ex-Century Media), you’d trust this’d be the best of women in extreme metal, but it fails to engage on any level.
12 “new” New York punk bands doing one “original” and one cover each. Proves again punk bands oughta stick to what they know best, ruining their “own” songs.