Metal Blade Records – Page 29

As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise – Review

May 1, 2010

As I Lay Dying hands out a solid three-song beatdown like focused, heads-down Dark Tranquility before going all In Flames/Soilwork on us.

Charred Walls of the Damned – Review

March 1, 2010

Whether it’s his work in latter-day Priest or Iced Earth, Ripper Owens’ delivery is always 100 percent over-the-top metal mania.

Amon Amarth – Twilight of The Thunder God – Review

October 1, 2008

Accessible Sunlight Studio death circa grinding Entombed, crossed with In Flames, Six Feet Under, and a bunch of holler-along anthems from power metal.

Shai Hulud – Misanthropy Pure – Review

June 1, 2008

Great band, new singer. This guy Matt can yell, but he’s been on the same one note for the last five songs, and there’s only so long I can sit through it.

Whitechapel – This Is Exile – Review

June 1, 2008

Knoxville, TN’s death metal sons do themselves proud.

One Way Mirror – Review

June 1, 2008

Rock metal from members of Mnemic, Lyzanxia, Phase I, Soilwork, Scarve, and Watcha. All produced good underground metal, all flirted with anthemic rock.

The Ocean – Precambrian – Review

April 1, 2008

Two discs, Hadean/Archaean and Proterozoic. One evokes the polluted decibel wonderment of Isis and Neurosis. Two exhibits more mellowness and elasticity.

Lizzy Borden – An Appointment with Death – Review

April 1, 2008

A thick, layered, ambitious record. Blackie and Borden alone own this decadent space between power and hair metal and strip mall junk while California burns.

Soilent Green – Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction – Review

March 1, 2008

Swamp grinders return on a new label, and they’re still miserable about it all.

Brainstorm – Downburst – Review

March 1, 2008

Sounding dark and at the heavy end of power metal in the substance end of it, yet being seen as nice, personable guys a couple partitions from Edguy.