Metal Blade Records – Page 43

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.

Riot – Shine On – Review

January 1, 1999

Although Reale and DiMeo are an admirable team, this competent self-important churn does little for me.

Poundhound – Massive Grooves – Review

January 1, 1999

Doug’s Poundhound project is (thankfully) very much like a King’s X record. Only Doug has, quite predictably, blasted it with heavier, bass-throbbing tones.

In Ruins – Four Seasons Of Grey – Review

January 1, 1999

Pretty creepy hearing a Philadelphia power trio carving an authentic and pioneering niche within black metal.