Nuclear Blast Records – Page 24

All Shall Perish – Hate Malice Revenge – Review

March 28, 2005

Death metal with Cookie Monster vocals. Another one. The band’s debut. Tight as shit, but most death metal is.

Hammerfall – Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken – Review

March 16, 2005

Swedish power metal, but a glance at the cover shoulda made that clear. Anyone into power metal or falsetto-layered heavy metal knows who these guys are.

Malevolent Creation – Warkult – Review

December 20, 2004

Malevolent Creation always follow up a good album with a bad one. Warkult is the tails to The Will to Kill’s heads.

In Flames – Soundtrack To Your Escape – Review

December 20, 2004

In Flames have carved themselves an endearing, enigmatic, amusing place within a scene now dominated to the left and right by American metalcore bands.

Death Angel – The Art of Dying – Review

December 1, 2004

The Art of Dying is the sound of a creative entity so far beyond rudimentary thrash, that they can’t even fake their discomfort in “returning to roots.”

Agnostic Front – Another Voice – Review

November 21, 2004

The heaviness sounds calculated, as if the band’s so hell bent on being HEAVY, that they lost the effortless magic of their earlier material.

Therion – Lemuria – Review

October 4, 2004

With all sorts of hugely symphonic and choir-blessed folk/prog passages, and plainly chugging metal bits, Sirius B/Lemuria holds one’s attention throughout.

Primal Fear – Devil’s Ground – Review

September 20, 2004

Featuring a former Gamma Ray frontman and an ex-Annihilator drummer, Primal Fear have been amongst the most dependable when it comes to power metal.

Edguy – Hellfire Club – Review

August 30, 2004

Those nutty dudes in Edguy have gotten me hooked. There’s an unabashed sense of fun and a joy for music in their latest, and I can’t help but love it!

Stratovarius – Elements Pt. 2 – Review

August 9, 2004

Raised on and characterized by Germans like Helloween and the Swedish offspring of Malmsteen, the band produce another multi-faceted model of consistency.