Nuclear Blast Records – Page 22

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.

Therion – Celebrators of Becoming – Review

January 12, 2007

How you feel about Therion depends largely on your tolerance for hugely melodramatic, pretentious opera metal. Experience Therion with this six-disc box set.

Chrome Division – Doomsday Rock ‘n Roll – Review

January 5, 2007

Doomsday Rock ‘n Roll constantly struggles to overcome the clichés attached to any other denim’n’leather band with aspirations of three-chord stardom.

Mendeed – The Dead Live By Love – Review

January 1, 2007

Third full-length, a glorious grab bag of thrash shred, hardcore stomp, Blind Guardian harmonies, snarling and clean singing, and dueling soloing.