Music Review Album Review: Valhalore – Voyage Into Eternity Orion Parfrey, April 8, 2017April 8, 2017 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… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life album review – Repulsive Vision – Look Past the Gore and See The Art Amon Crow, January 16, 2017 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… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life review: THE WHO – My Generation 5CD Super Deluxe Edition Terry Bunch, December 13, 2016 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,… Continue Reading
Music Review review: TESTAMENT – Brotherhood of The Snake Terry Bunch, September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 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… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life album review: Summer Flake – Hello Friends Terry Bunch, April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 While not a metal release, Aussie indy band Summer Flake is set to unleash an album upon us, the unwashed masses, that deserves a serious listen through. Hello Friends is a bluesy, down and dirty groove rock album that is top notch to say the least. Front woman Stephanie Crase’s… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life review: PALACEBURN – Curses EP Karila Shannis, January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Kids these days wouldn’t know what rock music was if it slapped them in the faces with a Marshall halfstack, thanks to sensible denotations like AC/DC and Kiss being exchanged in the minds of youth for the marshmallow-ness of bands like Mumford & Sons and Arcade Fire. Thank goodness there… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life Album Review: Tarja Turunen (ex NIGHTWISH) – Ave Maria En Plein Air Diana Marsh, October 27, 2015 With the release of her debut classical solo album, Ave Maria En Plein Air, Tarja has opened a new world of beauty and composition to metal and classical fans alike. The song, Ave Maria, an intersessional prayer to Mother Mary set to music, has inspired countless composers throughout the ages,… Continue Reading
Music Review Album Review: DISTURBED – Immortalized Karila Shannis, September 17, 2015 I have been a fan of Disturbed since I was in junior high; their music was the crutch that I leaned on during awkward adolescent phases, transitioning into college life, and coping with shifts in religious and political beliefs. Thus this preface exists to say I did my best to… Continue Reading