Loadown - Metal Music Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
So this is the collection earache 'was allowed' from BBC of various influential/early grindcore bands. VERY EARLY/first recordings on the Peel sessions.A 'must' for fans of the bands or collectors or just fans of early grind. It's not shit quality cuz of the recording - but what the band sounded like back then.BANDS: Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Godflesh, Unseen
Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
LEAVES' EYES, LEGION OF THE DAMNED, POWERWOLF and HEIDEVOLK have been confirmed for the Metalfest Open Air Festival which is set to take place from May 13th-15th, 2010 in Dessau, Germany. The Festival line-up so far is as follows... ALESTORM BOLT THROWER DECAPITATED ENFORCER EPICA HEIDEVOLK LEAVES' EYES LEGION OF THE DAMNED MILKING THE GOATMACHINE MYSTIC PROPHECY NEVERMORE POWERWOLF www.de.metalfest.eu/...
Jonny (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Top blasting with Mr Race big bad J HH Sat AM hit up Norwich track with puddles everywhere & drizzle cos we just don't care. Got the blood pumping & shifted me 'party' induced hangover. There is no room for bible themed paper based games in my partying so I mainly got drunks & that to blot out the hideous reality I was experiencing. PM we hit up farmers trails with the lovely Ms Gothic...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Following up last year's decent debut album, Condemned Cathedral , Texan old school cult Decrepitaph have issued a limited edition 7" EP with a pair of new tracks, an intro and outro. "Resurrected (intro)" swells with dark ambient synths for just over a minute before the death-doom tones of "Apocalyptic Pandemonium" embark on their bleak journey. Once the track picks up, it...
The Product Review Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By David Glisan Throughout its history, heavy metal has done well to avoid pretense. Bands sung about topics like slaying dragons, chasing women, and partying. Then, at some point during the 1990s, the cancer of nu metal started to metastasize in the heavy metal genre. Bands started singing about relationships and their feelings in an effort to gain mainstream popularity. Were not talking about an...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Germany has had its fair share of death metal, a solid if softspoken scene which has existed since the early days of the genre's transformation and genesis. But few of its exports have exploded onto the scene in quite the same fashion as the excellent Fleshcrawl . This band would go on to create many great albums with a clear Scandinavian death influence, but ironically, their debut Descend Into the...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Australia's been pretty pissed lately, and Destruktor is yet another piece of evidence. Another band performing in old school territory has made their way to Hell's Headbangers records and then to your stereo. After a few splits and EPs, Nailed is this band's first stab at a full-length, and a successful puncture wound. Unlike most of the label's acts, this is more of a pure death metal album with...
Metal Hammer (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
British veterans confirm that a European tour is in the works for 2010! (more…)
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Sardonic is a German death metal band with a pair of albums under their belts. Similar to another band I've recently reviewed ( Fleshworks ), they've got a former member of Branded Skin, but the material this band performs has a fun, thrashing edge to it which is thoroughly entertaining throughout the EP. Title track/instrumental "Parasites" is the first out the gate with a nice buildup before...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Top 20 Metal Albums of 1992 01. Darkthrone (No) - A Blaze in the Northern Sky 02. Faith No More (US) - Angel Dust 03. Testament (US) - The Ritual 04. Trouble (US) - Manic Frustration 05. Master's Hammer (Cz) - The Jilemnice Occultist 06. Root (Cz) - The Temple in the Underworld 07. Gruntruck (US) - Push 08. Dream Theater (US) - Images and Words 09. Kreator (De) - Renewal 10. Blind Guardian (De)...
Loadown - Metal Music Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Serving as my introduction to Bastardized Recordings, Morphology Of Fear is a split disc featuring dual EP offerings from two of Germany's elite deathcore acts, Six Reasons To Kill and Absidia. The term deathcore should be taken in the lightest representation possible. Both bands, in essence, are outstanding death metal acts. The 'core' elements only come into play for brief moments here and
The Grumpy Stunty (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Yeah, as the title says I am a dunce. Why? Because I only just realised that two of the four dwarf quarrellers I have finished have the wrong arm. They do not have the correct one to allow the hand attached to the crossbow to connect. So, I do not have four finished quarrellers, I have two. =/ I feel like an idiot. Alas no pictures, but there will be when I get around to painting the rest of the unit...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Top 20 Metal Albums of 1989 01. Pestilence (Nl) - Consuming Impulse 02. Deathrow (De) - Deception Ignored 03. Bolt Thrower (UK) - Realm of Chaos 04. Running Wild (De) - Death or Glory 05. Voivod (Ca) - Nothingface 06. Ministry (US) - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste 07. Coroner (Ch) - No More Color 08. Sabbat (UK) - Dreamweaver 09. Sepultura (Br) - Beneath the Remains 10. Lizzy Borden (US)...
DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
New issue of Terrorizer magazine features Immortal on the front cover: Terrorizer #189 October 2009 | Terrorizer.com Feature Highlights: IMMORTAL SLAYER PARADISE LOST EVILE MARDUK BARONESS SECRETS OF THE MOON THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER DYING FETUS DEPISED ICON SKITLIV SONATA ARCTICA TOUR REPORT: Benediction + Bolt Thrower
Jez's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
So now I've got that lot painted I've got the pledge totals so far. Checking the photos, I've got 52 miniatures painted (counting each bike as 2 minis). So far I've bought 14 wood elves, 35 minis from the space hulk boxed set and 2 free mantic elves. 52 vs 51 - yes! Well actually its more of a nooooooooooooo. Yesterday I cracked and ordered a big box of those mantic elves so I have another 52 miniatures...
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