Metal Blade Records – Page 31

Goatwhore – A Haunting Curse – Review

January 5, 2007

Soilent Green vocalist Ben Falgoust, ex-Acid Bath/Crowbar guitarist Sammy Duet, bassist Nathan Bergeron, and drummer Zack Simmons play blackened death metal.

Architect – All Is Not Lost – Review

January 1, 2007

These Architects build a mighty headache. A nice, brutal orgy of hardcore knuckledrag and pretentious splatter/noise art, mixed all brutal metal mean.

This Ending – Inside the Machine – Review

January 1, 2007

New band, no bio, definitely Swedish or thereabouts, obsessed with technology/humanity like Fear Factory, but more death metal.

Destroy Destroy Destroy – Devour The Power – Review

December 15, 2006

Children of Bodom played to perfection, shrieking Cradle of Filth played to a (Manowar) tee. All the Viking lore played for your giggling, ironic amusement.

Amon Amarth – Wrath of the Norsemen – Review

October 11, 2006

Perhaps the greatest Viking metal band of them all, Amon Amarth present us this three-DVD set featuring five full concerts plus additional backstage material.

Cataract – Kingdom – Review

September 1, 2006

Of superb quality, using modern toolings, only a smidge of modern styles, anchoring their imposing sound in a complex miasma of death metal movements.

A Love End – Suicide In The Disaster – Review

September 1, 2006

More a Ferret band than a Metal Blade band: A one-note singer, dense production, little change in pace or tone, a solid listen, no real gems, no boring tracks.

Goatwhore – A Haunting Curse – Review

September 1, 2006

All the “I Heart Metal” button-wearing posers will run home and curl-up with their wanna-be Suicide Girl girlfriend for comfort. Goatwhore don’t fuck around.

The Crown – 14 Years of No Tomorrow – Review

August 18, 2006

A three-disc set that includes a “documentary,” four live shows, and an extensive amount of amateur footage of the Swedish death metal band over the years.

If Hope Dies – Life in Ruin – Review

August 11, 2006

A tasteful blend of roar, rampage, stutter, groove, thunderous drumming, twin guitar interplay, manly vocals, and the blood-spattered kitchen sink.