Album Review: GRAVE DIGGER – Symbol of Eternity From the emotionally rousing intro to the last note played, this album delivers anthem metal like only Grave Digger can. Symbol of Eternity takes you on an epic journey through history to the Crusades (again, they like this period of time, haha)…
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Album Review: Valhalore – Voyage Into Eternity
Valhalore is an upcoming band from Brisbane, Australia. Running a strong team of 6. With Matthew Grimley on Bass, Anthony Willis on Guitars, Lachlan Neate on vocals, cello, and mandolin, Sophie Christensen on wind instruments, Morgan Cox on drums, and Lucas Fisher on Guitars and Vocals. Voyage Into Eternity is…
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Iron Reagan’s “Crossover Ministry” Will Exorcise Your Post-Election Demons
Editor’s Note: Move over, “Art of Partying.” My new anthem is “Fuck the Neighbors.” If there’s any truth to the general predictions of more profoundly heavy music emerging due to our current political shitstorm, Iron Reagan is already ten steps ahead. Crossover Ministry is the quick fix that pulls you away…
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Metal Life review: THE WHO – My Generation 5CD Super Deluxe Edition
In the half century since its release, The Who’s debut album My Generation hasn’t lost any of its raw, visceral power and still stands as the ultimate musical declaration of teenage rebellion. The title track alone has been covered innumerable times by the likes of Oasis, Green Day, Patti Smith,…
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Album Life On The Road By David Brent- The Album That Needed To Be Made
“Live Fast, Die Old“ Painfully funny and yet astonishingly awkward, Life On The Road is an album that will have you both laughing and cringing from beginning to end. It is a solid combination of David Brent’s shameless social missteps and Ricky Gervais biting humor bathed in the stage lights…
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H.P Lovecraft’s ‘The Lurking Fear’ Gets A Reboot
“Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined corridors of purple fulgorous sky… formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of…
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Mayhem’s Purgatorium Tour – A San Diego Review
If there’s anything we can say we are grateful for this year, it’s having been able to see Mayhem three times in the United States over the course of merely a couple of years. Just because this tour wasn’t called Black Metal Warfare 3 certainly doesn’t mean there was not…
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Metal Life album review – Repulsive Vision – Look Past the Gore and See The Art
Repulsive Vision’s “Look Past the Gore and See the Art” begins in panic: the first track is a fever-dream maelstrom of slasher-film samples, urgently warning against the rampant dangers of metal music that encourage “sex abuse, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia, infanticide, mutilation, molestation, and death.” What follows is an assault of…
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review: TESTAMENT – Brotherhood of The Snake
Legends that they are, we had no doubt that TESTAMENT would create yet another good album. However, would this be an amazing album? Would we be blown away or just be pleased that yet another TESTAMENT album was released? Well, let us start off with this: Brotherhood of the Snake…
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Clark Ashton Smith’s Inferno Brought To Life
“The night grows whole again, the shadows rest gathered beneath a greater shadow’s wings” S.T Joshi, a leading authority on the works of H.P Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken and more, has collaborated with spoken word label Cadabra Records to create a unique verbal vehicle by which to expose…