Kingdom of Noise

Few albums of 2011 had the energy or the stick-in-your-head-ness of Darker Handcraft ( Prosthetic ). I'm a sucker for that buzzsaw gu...

Again for the sake of laziness, I mean, expediency, I'm just going to copy the review True Traitor, True Whore  I wrote a few weeks ag...

I'm usually a pretty upbeat kind of guy. But I have had my down times. Plenty actually. Despond ( Profound Lore ) is the soundtrack f...

I don't usually like to make direct comparisons between bands but in this case the similarity (to me) was so striking I couldn't h...

This may be one of the most polarizing metal releases of 2011. Partially because Mastodon can hardly be called metal anymore. The Hunter (...

Last year, Landmine Marathon's Sovereign Descent landed inside the Top 20 on my year end list. So it was a pleasant surprise to lear...

Many of the albums that I have enjoyed most this year are dark moody affairs that unfold over the whole album. And some albums just fuckin...

I had mentioned in my Explanatory Blurb that there was an album that I came upon after I had pretty much finalized my list that I could not ...

It seems like every two years or so an album will make my year end list and then the band will break up before I even publish it. The last ...

It's only taken me 20 years to discover Exhumed. But when I first listened to All Guts, No Glory (Relapse) my reaction was "FUCKIN...

When I talked about the Origin album I made note of its technicality coupled with its brutality. Phoenix Amongst The Ashes (Metal Blade) t...

Yes, Varg Vikernes may be a despicable human being. But I don't really care about his personal life. I believe every man has the potenti...

Due to a number of circumstances, I haven't been able to listen to all the music I would like have heard in 2011. It boils down to acces...

In the interest of expediency (and laziness) I'm simply going to provide the link to the review of Sever The Wicked Hand (E1 Entertain...

I've seen Shutter Island . An asylum no place I want to go. But not all asylums are created equal. Be it a  physical place or merely a s...

This is another one of my favourite driving albums. The intensity and aggression of The Cold Testament (Prosthetic) makes it near impossibl...

My wife texts me from a record store, "At HMV. want n e thing?" Ya, the new Crowbar. "nope. don't have it" Ok, then....

Winnipeg's KEN Mode crack the top 30 as the second Canadian entry on my list. As much as I like the album, I find it very hard to descri...

I fell into the trap. I'd read some less than positive things about Unto The Locust (Roadrunner) before I actually heard it. So I didn...

In 2008, I named Twilight of the Thunder God Album Of The Year. So naturally I had high hopes for this year's Surtur Rising (Metal Bla...

I was familiar with the name Weekend Nachos but not familiar with the actual music. I may have shied away from previous works partially due...

Releasing an album in late October doesn't leave much time for scribes such as myself to digest it before the baying for year end lists...

Clocking in around 37 minutes, Entity (Nuclear Blast) delivers a technical death metal punch in the gut as opposed the Chinese water tortu...

That album title sure is a mouthful isn't it? Sounds pretty deep doesn't it? Well so does the record. ATVODBUOSMF (Profound Lore) ...

I was a little late to the metal party. I didn't start listening to metal in earnest til the mid-late 90's. Therefore, I missed mos...

Ottawa's Fuck The Facts are the first Canadian band to land on this year's list with their latest, Die Miserable (Relapse). Some b...

Not that I would consider myself a Black Metal rookie, but I will admit my fluency with the nomenclature of the genre is somewhat lacking. H...

Cannabis Corpse's Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise (Tankcrimes) is the first album on the list that I can imagine getting flack abou...