DESTRUCTION – All Hell Breaks Loose
(Nuclear Blast) Rating: 8.5 Now this is what a reunion should sound like. Slowly but surely over their career, Destruction got real lost, misdirected and their material began to suffer...
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IMMORTAL – Damned In Black
(Osmose Productions) Rating: 10 Never really could stomach an entire Immortal record in one sitting, but these Norwegian heroes have grown into a solid force, equally as impressive as the...
The Prophecy (Stigmata Of The Immaculate)
(Nuclear Blast) Rating: 8.0 By Chris Bruni Well the band had this in the can for quite some time now. Bandaging up their relations with Nuclear Blast, The Prophecy sees...
EVERGREY – Solitude Dominance Tragedy
(Hall Of Sermon) Rating: 10 By Allan Grusie Brilliant is not enough to describe the second outing from Sweden’s Evergrey. From the first ripping chords of “Solitude Within” to the...
ANTHRAX – Return Of The Killer A’s
(Beyond / BMG) Rating: 4.0 Once regarded as one of the Big 4, not exactly sure why, but I guess there had to be some East Coast presence to offset...
TRANSPORT LEAGUE – Satanic Panic
(Pavement) Rating: 8.0 By Martin Popoff Third record now for Sweden’s Transport League, who have turned in an engaging pastiche of crossover ironies, evolving from their post-B-Thong existence as more...
RAISE HELL – Not Dead Yet
(Nuclear Blast) Rating: 8.5 By Martin Popoff Loosening their nooses and letting the joculars hamhock forth in sexy swivels and beer swigs, Raise Hell have made a record that begs...
MOTÖRHEAD – We Are Motörhead
(CMC) Rating: 8.0 By Martin Popoff It ain’t about change with this band, but I detect something cleaner but ironically meaner about this one, Lemmy and Co. sounding snapped tight,...
DEICIDE – Insineratehymn
(Roadrunner) Rating: 7.5 By Chris Bruni Cool album title as once again we prepare to become subjected to another blasphemous outburst from Glen Benton and co. No surprises this time,...
IRON MAIDEN – Brave New World
(EMI) Rating: 10 Life must feel good in the Maiden camp. Remarkably, some are saying that Brave New World is Iron Maiden‘s finest output to date. Pretty strong sentiments to...
