Nuclear Blast Records – Page 34

Crack Up – Heads Will Roll – Review

June 1, 1999

Scantily-clad chicks, big guns, tough cars, scantily-clad chicks with big guns draped on tough cars, but Crack Up just don’t fully gel.

Dismal Euphony – All Little Devils – Review

June 1, 1999

Dismal Euphony comes from black roots (unlike most Goths’ hair) and they have the male “blackened shriek,” but somehow they just don’t take me the distance.

Darkseed – Give Me Light – Review

June 1, 1999

Each track throws in a new sound and arrangement, but I can’t help thinking that the boys are abandoning ship, passing Sentenced on the way to Paradise Lost.

Pro-Pain – Act of God – Review

June 1, 1999

Pro-Pain return with newfound energy. Ya gotta give these guys credit for stickin’ to their guns and pounding away at the same few chords.

Steel Prophet – Dark Hallucinations – Review

June 1, 1999

This reeks of the ’80s, unlike much of the new powermetal and heavy metal around these days. Equal parts mediocre thrash and wanking prog metal.

Hypocrisy – Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken – Review

June 1, 1999

With 11 live tracks (gorgeously produced, I might add) and four studio tracks, Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken is a must for die-hard fans.

Sculpture – Review

June 1, 1999

Similar to bands like Cemetery, Dreadful Shadows, and Evereve, Sculpture mix the metal with the moodiness and have produced some fine, heavy Goth rock.

New Eden – Obscure Master Plan – Review

June 1, 1999

Evidently, some guy started New Eden, joined Steel Prophet for a couple albums, then thought it’d be a swell idea to resurrect his old band. I disagree.

Thy Serpent – Christcrusher – Review

April 1, 1999

These Fins create some wickedly atmospheric and skillful black metal that rivals their contemporaries in Sweden and Norway.

Agathodaimon – Blacken the Angel – Review

April 1, 1999

On Blacken The Angel, this German sextet leans toward the more melodic and atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum.