Metal Blade Records – Page 28

New England Metal & Hardcore Festival 2011 Line-Up Announced – News

February 1, 2011

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival will enter it’s teenage years this April with an eclectic mixture of bands from the metal and hardcore genres.

Ghost – Opus Eponymous – Review

January 28, 2011

The pop sound of the irresistibly catchy odes to Satan, “Stand By Him” and “Satan Prayer,” are enough question whether this is serious or a goof on metal.

Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and original vocalist John Arch team up for new project – News

January 19, 2011

ARCH/MATHEOS’ Jim Matheos and John Arch are currently working together on a new album that will be released in late spring/early summer via Metal Blade Records.

Metal Blade Records signs Swedish sleaze and punk influenced metal band Sister – News

January 12, 2011

Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the signing of Swedish sleaze and punk influenced metal band Sister.

Gwar – Bloody Pit of Horror – Review

December 31, 2010

It’s the McDonald’s ball pit of metal, a gloriously fun and dirty pile of sounds with a solid undercurrent of good songwriting and metal knowledge beneath.

Nightfall – Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants – Review

October 27, 2010

Greece’s Nightfall have been around awhile, and that experience pays off. What lies within is expertly polished death metal.

Return to Earth – Automata – Review

October 1, 2010

Wildly varying styles (black metal, Faith No More, and Ministry in the first track), overreaching thematic concept, and artsy instrumental interludes.

Early Graves – Goner – Review

August 13, 2010

I thought the new Exodus record would be unmatched in 2010 for pure, condensed hatred, but Goner has it beat by a mile. It’s gnarly, ugly, and ferocious.

Lightning Swords of Death – The Extra Dimensional Wound – Review

July 14, 2010

Metal for those who demand vocals straight from the crypt, guitar picking so fast the strings might ignite, and drums blast-beated into infinity.

Bison B.C. – Dark Ages – Review

June 1, 2010

Bison B.C. can dress up the music any way they like, they can’t hide their true intention, which is to rock out in a lumbering, fuzzy head-trip fashion.