Nuclear Blast Records – Page 20

Arsis – We Are The Nightmare – Review

March 1, 2008

Think Berklee musicians are douchebags? Arsis are your wake up call. Technical death metal, brilliantly played, amazingly produced, and gory as a machete wound.

Death Angel – Killing Season – Review

March 1, 2008

The guys bring back the complicated thrash, but always within the context of Anthrax-core urban punk-grimed holler-along songfulness.

Soilwork – Sworn to a Great Divide – Review

February 1, 2008

I grew to embrace Sworn to a Great Divide just cuz, well, sometimes a by-the-books melodic death metal album from Soilwork is exactly what a person needs.

Meshuggah – Obzen – Review

January 1, 2008

Great musicians with riffs like Pantera gone haywire, but they’re often so prog, you can’t headbang without second-guessing their next slippery transition.

Exodus – The Atrocity Exhibition… Exhibit A – Review

December 14, 2007

Vitriolic tirades and epic rants on the corruption of organized religion and the brainwashing power of our wonderful military-industrial complex.

Amorphis – Silent Waters – Review

August 3, 2007

Like Paradise Lost, Amorphis seems bent on encompassing their catalogue and compressing it into diamonds of progressive, note-dense, mostly quite heavy tracks.

Samael – Solar Soul – Review

July 27, 2007

Beginning life as a poisonous black metal cabal, moving through luminous, magical industrial metal, through too much techno, and now, back to a heavy medium.

Sonata Arctica – Unia – Review

July 20, 2007

Emotion worn on the hearts of their white, frilly sleeves, Sonata Arctica sometimes get too close to maudlin. On the more orchestral side of the catalogue.

Echoes of Eternity – The Forgotten Goddess – Review

April 6, 2007

A pure, unadorned, dreamy voice placed over quick-picked progressive metal that’s so precise that it’s damn near a math metal version of Children of Bodom.

Sirenia – Nine Destinies of a Downfall – Review

March 18, 2007

Former members of Tristania, The Sins Of Thy Beloved, Trail of Tears: Quality Goth metal. Plenty of glorious orchestration, layered siren calls, and metal chug.