Nuclear Blast Records – Page 24

Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine – Review

February 24, 2006

One vocalist dead and another “You are dead to me,” Gary Holt keeps it alive with Rob Dukes. Like the thrash purity of Peter Dolving returning to The Haunted.

Gorefest – La Muerte – Review

January 20, 2006

Dutch thinking man’s extremists Gorefest have been coaxed out of retirement, partly by a reissue campaign, partly because the damnable creativity still flows.

Clawfinger – Hate Yourself With Style – Review

January 1, 2006

Sweden’s Clawfinger never got their due, and it’s doubtful they ever will. Probably the only metal band with rappy vocals that don’t make me wanna hurl.

Darkane – Layers of Lies – Review

November 11, 2005

Technical metal is making a return to writing songs, rather than merely stringing together complex riffs, and Darkane understand this better than any.

Hypocrisy – Virus – Review

November 11, 2005

Peter’s back churning his mechanized doom at a verbosity of velocities, but the main different in the terrible tale is that Immortal’s Horgh is on as drummer.

Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree – Interview

October 28, 2005

An interview with vocalist Jens Kidman

Malevolent Creation – Warkult – Interview

October 21, 2005

An interview with guitarist Phil Fasciana

Soilwork – Stabbing The Drama – Review

June 13, 2005

Comparisons with In Flames are inevitable, but there’s a consistency here that makes Soilwork more cohesive: Soilwork’s vocalist isn’t weird.

Samael – Reign of Light – Review

June 13, 2005

This collective (Kovenant, Satyricon, Sentenced, Amorphis, Nile, Lake of Tears) play clubby, mechanistic, Rammstein, er, disco metal, but they’re evil about it.

Soilwork – Stabbing the Drama – Interview

June 13, 2005

An interview with vocalist Bjorn “Speed” Strid