For those who want a little old Soilwork with your new Soilwork, look no further than this second record from Speed Strid’s vicious side dish, Terror 2000.
Covering Iron Maiden is tricky. Two decades of shitty metal bands have paved the way for this thing all the way up my ass. But that’s not always the case here.
The soundtrack to Stratovarious’ Timo Tolkki’s life, and that’s sometimes a sweet thing, sometimes dark and angry, sometimes thoughtful or lonely or wistful.
A pretty conventional Hypocrisy album featuring huge, stressful guitar sounds, trebly snare and cymbals, and vocals pickled in a sea of electric currents.
The Defaced combining extreme Swedish violence with the white hot and heaviest bits from Amercian nĂĽ metal bands, most notably Machine Head and Slipknot.
Sounding like Bolt Thrower and Arch Enemy combined (except with more blastbeats than those two could ever muster), the crazy Canucks of Kataklysm are back.
From early death metal served straight-up, to blasts of blackened metal, to industrialish doom plod, Tägtgren and the boys do it with style and class.