Metal Blade Records – Page 29

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.

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.