Nuclear Blast Records – Page 25

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

Thunderstone – Tools Of Destruction – Review

June 8, 2005

Power metal from Finland. Slightly less embarrassing than some, but still goofy as hell. A little more manly than the frilly-shirted prancers, but not much.

Disbelief – 66Sick – Review

June 1, 2005

A few glorious moments here and there to spice up an otherwise completely listenable, completely interchangeable brutal metal band.

Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night – Review

May 15, 2005

Guitar work is fantastic, the song-crafting is good. Power metal’s inherent cheesiness factor is present throughout. Like a bad guest, it overstays its welcome.