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Virus of Violence is, as I understand it, the only full-length studio album by the Dutch band Desensitised. Of course, I never heard about them before. That makes the best kind of listening experience don’t you think? While doing a fast search there also seems to be an American band with the same name. This band allegedly changed its name to på Murder Syndicate in 2008. I haven’t heard anything about them either and I...
Battle of the Ancients’ biggest enemy is the production. If the band had just found a better producer who could make it sound less tinny, it would surely have been much better. For my part, there’s far too much bass and overall a dull, rumbling sound that I don’t enjoy at all. I never thought I would say this, but it needs a bit of air and separation between the instruments to work better. Musically,...
From Hell I Rise is the debut solo album of former Slayer guitarist Kerry King. He has gathered a new band around him for this. I guess it’s inevitable since Slayer is no more, even though they’re apparently doing a couple of festival gigs this year. For me, personally, there can’t be Slayer without Jeff Hanneman (who is dead) and Dave Lombardo so I guess I’ll have to settle for something else. Kerry King’s solo...
Among the Living is what led me to discover Anthrax, no doubt about it. At the time, I was hanging out with a pretty big fan of the band and, as a result, gained quite a bit of insight. But it was only this album that I felt I absolutely had to have! I’ve never been ecstatic about the entire record, to be honest. There are six out of the nine tracks that I have...
I’ve always found Jeff Waters’ guitar riffs innovative and fresh on all of Annihilator’s albums. Never Neverland is a huge development from Alice in Hell. This is where you truly notice that he doesn’t choose conventional paths and is eager to incorporate odd tones and tempo changes for effect! It’s not as straightforward Speed Metal as the debut, and it feels overall more thought-out. Coburn Pharr handles the vocals on Never Neverland, and he performs...
Path of Destruction is the full-length sophomore album from 2020 by Canadian Metal band Warning Sign. I think it’s a wonderful name for a band and I this the album title is a really cool title too. It sounds so Armageddon-ish. And it somehow gathers the essence of what this type of metal is all about. In one way or another at least. When I looked up Warning Sign and did some research I found...
Heal is Sacred Reich’s 4th full-length studio album if I’m not mistaken. They maintained a pretty even pace at this point in their career. Ignorance in 1987, The American Way in 1990, Independent in 1993, and Heal in 1996. That means that the band should have had enough time to invest in every album I think. At least that’s how it plays out in my mind. But they are all very different from each other...
I’ve listened to Sacred Reich’s Independent numerous times now, trying to find qualities that just aren’t there. I’m sorry but I can’t find the great moments that were on The American Way. Neither musically nor lyrically. It’s a shame really. The American Way is a true masterpiece and might be the best album of the 90s. But Independent doesn’t live up to it at all. It’s not bad by any means, there’s just not that...
As I have stated in a couple of previous reviews of Sacred Reich’s albums, The American Way is their masterpiece according to me. There is really no comparison to the previous album. The sound quality is exactly as I like it. There is not too much bass and just the right amount of heaviness. The lyrics themselves reflect society’s concessions, which is no surprise. And the music has just the right amount of hit quality,...
Surf Nicaragua was probably not the first album I got with Sacred Reich. If it is an album that is. I guess it’s really an EP or a min album or something. There are six tracks on it and two are new if I’m not mistaken. Two original Sacred Reich songs that is. There is the title track – Surf Nicaragua, which is the whole point of owning this. Not to say that the other...
I recently had a discussion with Micke from TPL Records. We meet once a year and he’s always great to talk metal with. I would like to say that he knows everything about metal music. That’s not entirely true of course. No one knows everything, but it’s safe to say that he knows more about it than me. But then again, he has been dealing with Metal for 40 years, selling albums and keeping track...
Crimson is an album by the band Aramis. Another band that contains of one person. just like Anal Stabwound that I wrote about a while back. I’ll say the say thing here as I said then. Kudos! It takes a great deal of talent to master all instruments, produce and mix the music and get it on the market. But I don’t know if it affects the quality a lot too. Maybe you need input...
