Nuclear Blast Records – Page 26

Amorphis – Far From The Sun – Review

April 4, 2005

Enigmatic lead singer Pasi Koskinen’s swansong is an interesting, not altogether successful, return to heaviness, although it’s more la trip to a new heaviness.

Bleed the Sky – Paradigm Entropy – Review

April 4, 2005

Chugs and speedy parts and clean harmonies, all in the right places. Weird interludes and whispers and noise to show they’re deep.

Grave Digger – The Last Supper – Review

March 28, 2005

They’ve been humpin’ it out since the mid-’80s. In 20 years, they should’ve gotten a lot better than this. Mediocre then, mediocre now.

Apocalyptica – Reflections – Review

March 28, 2005

Love the concept (metal with cellos) but always kinda let down by the CDs. In ’96, they covered Metallica tunes. Maybe we’re waiting for something like that.

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.