Metal Blade Records – Page 42

Gwar – We Kill Everything – Review

June 1, 1999

There’s the usual goof rock, punk, and speed metal, but there’s hard rock, Iron Maiden, and, um, funk metal in here, too.

Manowar – Hell on Stage Live – Review

June 1, 1999

Even cool guys attending shows just for laughs have had to admit that they went to the lost and found after the show to see if someone had turned their ass in.

Sacred Steel – Wargods of Metal – Review

June 1, 1999

You don’t have to be a genius to spot an ’80s powermetal leftover, no better aged.

Bolt Thrower – Mercenary – Review

April 1, 1999

Bolt Thrower has perfected their own style of Medieval-ish melodic death metal, and they deserve to be heard because they do it better than anyone else.

Memory Garden – Verdict of Posterity – Review

April 1, 1999

Pure delight for fans of progressive metal. Memory Garden are a Swedish phenom who mix their convolution with a detectable trace of doom via Memento Mori.

Hades – $avior$elf – Review

April 1, 1999

The highlight is the dug deep groove of “To Know One,” which somehow combines Sabbath, Savatage, and Aerosmith funk and flips itself into a suicide dirge.

Grip Inc. – Solidify – Review

April 1, 1999

Drama is created with bass and drum barrages, all laced with Middle Eastern flavors, or more accurately, middle British flavours of a grimly vampiric nature.

Flotsam And Jetsam – Unnatural Selection – Review

April 1, 1999

This one’s whimsical cover art refers to the band’s self-image as worker ants toiling away at the middle of metal, where nobody seems to be watching.

Galactic Cowboys – At The End Of The Day – Review

January 1, 1999

A slight left turn into a more immediate, dirt-faced sound, courtesy of drummer Alan Doss, who produced and mixed the whole Cheap Tricked starburst.

Enthroned – Towards the Skullthrone of Satan – Review

January 1, 1999

With very few exceptions, Towards… launches into a hyperspeed assault of early-’90s school black metal and rarely gives the listener a break.