Nuclear Blast Records – Page 21

Therion – Live Gothic – Review

June 1, 2008

This band’s been around for two decades and any metal fan who doesn’t have a CD or two in their collection ought to seriously consider their next breath.

Kataklysm – Prevail – Review

March 1, 2008

Over 15 years in the game, these Canadian death metallers know the drill, and they use it on your ears.

Divinity – Allegory – Review

March 1, 2008

A mix of thrash, death, and prog, they shred, the vocals roar then soar warblingly, harmonize with the best of them, then they trip you up like Meshuggah.

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.