Nuclear Blast Records – Page 26

Hammerfall – One Crimson Night – Review

April 19, 2004

Offering everything you’d want out of a live album, Hammerfall make this thing look and sound like Live After Death. The set is spirited throughout, one show in the band’s hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Manowar – The Dawn of Battle – Review

March 8, 2004

A gap-bridging affair reaching back to last year’s Warriors of the World and forward to Fire & Blood, an upcoming performance DVD with a trailer here.

Fireball Ministry – The Second Great Awakening – Review

February 16, 2004

Ten songs (11 tracks, but one of ’em’s an intro), four of which are already available elsewhere. The greedy part of me wishes this album was all new stuff.

A Tribute to The Four Horsemen – Review

January 28, 2004

I never knew The Four Horsemen were that influential… oh wait, this is a tribute to Metallica? Ooooooh boy, let the slaughter begin…

Destruction – Metal Discharge – Review

December 10, 2003

Germany’s most beloved frantic thrashers are back with their third post-reunion album, and it’s a wily, cogent mix between old and new.

Soilwork – Figure Number Five – Review

October 29, 2003

Soilwork somehow managed to combine their love of hard rock strutting with Gothenburg blood and Oakenfold house in a formula that didn’t stink to high heaven.

Helloween – Rabbit Don’t Come Easy – Review

September 24, 2003

Germany’s favorite steak’n’steiners return to their celebrated buoyant fast sound and, unfortunately, to the days of disastrous album titles.

Death Is Just The Beginning: Vol. 7 – Review

July 23, 2003

Metal is alive and well and living in Europe. Americans futz with knuckledragging nü metal and ’til-you-grow-outta-it hardcore, European metal pushes forward.

The Kovenant – Seti – Review

July 23, 2003

The Kovenant are Norwegian, come from a black metal background, and are smart enough to bring in members of Apoptygma Berzerek and Zeromance.

Death Is Just The Beginning – Vol. 7 – Review

July 23, 2003

Split (kinda) into power metal on disc one and extreme on disc two, tracked alphabetically per disc, there’s so much to open yer eyes, if yer at all into metal.