Nuclear Blast Records – Page 28

A Tribute to The Beast – Review

August 2, 2002

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.

Timo Tolkki – Hymn To Life – Review

July 12, 2002

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.

Soilwork – Natural Born Chaos – Review

July 5, 2002

Natural Born Chaos is a very heavy record and it’s a great record, groundbreaking, potentially star-making.

Hypocrisy – Catch 22 – Review

June 28, 2002

A pretty conventional Hypocrisy album featuring huge, stressful guitar sounds, trebly snare and cymbals, and vocals pickled in a sea of electric currents.

Tidfall – Instinct Gate – Review

May 17, 2002

Every genre needs opening bands, and Tidfall fit the black metal opening slot nicely.

The Defaced – Domination Commence – Review

May 17, 2002

The Defaced combining extreme Swedish violence with the white hot and heaviest bits from Amercian nü metal bands, most notably Machine Head and Slipknot.

Kataklysm – Epic: The Poetry of War – Review

April 12, 2002

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.

Hypocrisy – 10 years of Chaos and Confusion – Review

April 12, 2002

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.

Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia – Interview

March 22, 2002

An interview with the guitarist Silenoz

In Flames – The Tokyo Showdown: Live in Japan – Review

March 1, 2002

In Flames now has a live album with most of the hits of their handful of now-legendary “rocker” take on soaring’n’ripping melodic death metal.