Kingdom of Noise

There is something about small venues that is just better than larger ones. So when I found out how small AKA Autonomous Social Centre ( h...

Early Man - Beware The Circling Fin : Typical Early Man. Not as good as Closing In but better than most new heavy thrash inspired metal. Mi...

I was going to wait and include this with my Top Albums of 2008 but since there isn't many I thought I would just do it now anyway. In n...

I have condensed all the albums that I have listened to from 2008 down to a (not so) short list of about 67-68. I should be able to get that...

Volition - Volition: When I first started listening to this I immediately thought of Crowbar. It has a similar tone and that slow pacing. Th...

Testament - The Formation of Damnation : Remind me again why Testament was never as big as "The Big 4" of thrash? Because musicall...

When Six Feet Under first got together, I thought they were the shit. I thought Chris Barnes' voice was soooo cool. At this point, I had...

As I try to figure out what albums will make my Top 40 or so of 2008 I put them into one of 2 folders. NOPE, or I KNOW it's good. Here i...

Here is my short take on Life's Trade by Samothrace. The first time I listened to this I was not in a good place. I was really down and...

Pharoah - Be gone and Sahg - II , pretty much both get a Horns down. Not because they suck, but because they are nothing special. Pharoah i...

All three albums get the same review Paganus - Paganus Pyramids - Pyramids Russian Circles - Station Must be really stoned to enjoy. Slow an...

Melvins - Nude With Boots : It was alright. I like the first few tunes but then it just drifted into background music. Nothing really pulled...

Krisiun - Southern Storm : Excellently executed Sepultura cover = Automatic Horns UP! Sepultura is an obvious influence as the cover is righ...

Kingdom of Sorrow - Kingdom of Sorrow : I think alot of people gave KoS a bad rap before they heard a single note. I think people are kinda ...

Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master : This is how metal should be done, people. Wicked blend of style without it sounding too pla...

Iota - Tales: Plodding, nice paced groove. Great tone. Can't quite pin down who they remind me of. Sleep at bit, but not the vocals. The...

Hemlock - No Time For Sorrow: Front to back, solid metal. Pretty good metal vocal range. Death growl, black screech and screaming. Vocal hoo...

Half Makeshift - Omen: Track listing: Omen I, Omen II, Omen III and Omen IV. How boring is that? About as boring as the tracks themselves. T...

The Evpatoria Report - Maar: I think I am growing out of my ambient/drone phase.This is just boring to me. If I wanted to listen to Explosio...

Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption: Showed promise at first with some good drumming but then it deteriorates into noise. Just noise. It isn...

Grand Magus - Iron Will : Pretty standard Grand Magus. Stoner-tinged rock. Like St. Vitus Light. It's good to listen to but I think they...

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday : I want to give this a thumbs up based on the album cover . But alas, I can't. I liked the first coup...

Fear Falls Burning - Frenzy of the Absolute : Burning? More like smoldering. And where is the frenzy part? One of the most boring things I h...

Dagoba - Face The Colossus: If you are going to share your name with a planetary system in the Star Wars Universe, you better be good. But s...

Tokyo's Coffins make me think twice about Japanese death metal. I never thought it would be so good! Plodding, evil guitars roll behind ...

Century - Black Ocean : Frontman Carson Slovak has a beast on his hands here. They album is awesome. They've been described as "pro...

Dismember - Dismember : This is what death metal is supposed to sound like. Not overly fast, destructive guitar tone and low growled vocals....

Walls of Jericho - The American Dream : Not bad musically, a little dated. Not a bad screamer....for a girl. There are better ones. She soun...

Black Elk - Always a 6, Never a 9 : Very eclectic. Seemingly all over the place, most of the time within the same song. But the hold it toge...

Abysmal Dawn - Programmed To Consume : Pretty good tech-death. Nothing really special about it though. I'll give it a thumbs up. Across ...