I'm growing to love albums that combine war metal and deathgrind. So this is music like Infernal Coil but it achieves a much different effect. I really liked the whole thing. There are some 1st class head-bopping parts. Also, just wondering if the band actually thinks NYC is so dystopian at time of release... maybe it's intended for reminiscing about previous decades... just wondering.   Jan 24, 2024

Super early years of deathgrind, so I started my deathgrind Tuesday with it. This was an excellent choice. I was hoping to like it, but even so the quality of this album surprised me. Maybe it's well known that Terrorizer is a band to come to for great drumming... and now I know it too. I'm not surprised there's a band named after track 11.   Jan 24, 2024

Can someone please give out awards for band names? Anyway, this is raving mad music, and I can tell it's crafted just to drive people in a club into a sweaty frenzy. Also, I like this even more than baby shark. EVEN MORE!!!111oneone   Jan 24, 2024

There are some great polar opposite vibes that this album switches between (meaning there are savage freakouts and there are sentimental parts as well). Sass might be unknown to a lot of us, so I'm glad to recommend this one, even though I'm in it for the cybergrind.   Jan 24, 2024

My favorite discovery from my cybergrind Monday. This gets my blood pumping. A bit of oldschool industrial influence shows up a couple of times, and it just makes it an even richer album. I'm eager to get deeper into Drumcorps's discography soon.   Jan 24, 2024

I really admire this artist's ethos of pay-what-you-want releases. This album is short, sweet, and it scrambles your brain in the best of ways.   Jan 24, 2024

I started my cybergrind Monday in style with a great album by Genghis Tron. I like this one slightly more than Dream Weapon. Board Up the House does make some pronounced shifts between those genres, keeping it interesting yet cohesive with a well-chosen track order. Also, it's mostly very harsh & heavy. Metalheads, give it a try.   Jan 24, 2024

The perfect album cover! Also the skeleton delivers some captivating melodies on that accordion. The songwriting is a great example of being just long enough; they all build up emotion increasingly and deliver very emotional releases by their end, even if the melodic structure might be simple. Then they all end at the perfect moment. Also, just learn Cyrillic OK?   Jan 24, 2024

Squeaky cute vocals followed by death growls? Somehow Violet Cold makes things like this work, and this album is full of interesting highlights & intense emotions. It was also fantastic for a sunny frozen walk today.   Jan 22, 2024

Well, the title makes sense, but the music is so focused on heaviness that son structure and musical ideas feel omitted. OK, I was laughing during Satan's Ice Cream Truck, but as a whole it's just a so-so release.   Jan 22, 2024

Excellent melancholic melodies throughout this powerful record. The vocalist often switches into this defiant tone that adds great variety and helps give the album form and the sense of a plotline. I loved the whole thing.   Jan 22, 2024

Cool new artist. It feels like he's just starting out, which is probably the plain truth. This album starts off so-so but gets better and better. The brooding mood and feeling of destroyed surroundings grow pretty strong.   Jan 22, 2024

I love this band's style. Very good album here, but their 2023 release is in another tier.   Jan 22, 2024

I knew these guys were famous, and now I know what they sound like. Pretty good to my ear. I can tell they have tons of ardent fans. Maybe with a different album I'll be able to hear what they hear.   Jan 22, 2024

I keep playing this short-but-sweet album, and keep liking it more & more, maybe even more than Solar Soul. Nice use of symphonic elements. Also, I didn't know they went industrial this early. Excellent music.   Jan 22, 2024

Overflowing with passion. I do wish the vocals had more variety, but the whole album still slaps. I also recommend seeking out the live bonus track.   Jan 19, 2024

It's half covers and half original material, and there's a mix of quality here, but when it comes to the choruses the songs really shine. The Heart cover (track 9) is the high point. They improved Journey's Separate Ways by eliminating the corniness (though the lyrics still don't make sense). Other highlights for me are tracks 6, 8, and 12.   Jan 19, 2024

There's a lot of good points about this album. However, its a constant barrage of singing parts hurrying in one after another, sometimes edited to overlap to smash them even closer. It gets incessant and destroys the variety that exists in the instrumental composition. This drags it down from a 75 to a 70 for me.   Jan 19, 2024

Another great album by Malist, though As I Become Darkness is better. So his last album was anti-war, this one is about scorched earth, and now he has relocated to the Czech Republic. Let's draw overwhelmingly obvious political conclusions.   Jan 19, 2024

Good stuff by Beherit here, and it's just a demo.   Jan 19, 2024

I guess it's my cup of coffee.   Jan 19, 2024

Fiery evil abounds. I had an absolute blast. Tracks 8 to 11 (the Dawn of Satan's Millenium EP) is the better material in my opinion.   Jan 19, 2024

Great first album! I was surprised to find it's one of the best releases in their formidable discography. Just even more proof that hundreds of millions of metalheads will love Svart Crown to death if they just give them a try.   Jan 19, 2024

Wow, I did not expect it to be like this. It's like some of Beck's albums that surprise you by jumping to an unexpected genre of music, and then trick you again by blending 2 other genres together. Deathgrind plus a cornucopia. Contrastic indeed. My pick of the day.   Jan 19, 2024

For me the whole album maintains a menacing & foreboding aura that really touches my soul, and that is fitting, considering the topic of and background to the album title. The legendary title track that opens this album is by far the most melodically engaging to my ear. All the other songs are good too, but Transilvanian Hunger is a song in its own elite league.   Jan 19, 2024

I hear a lot of power metal on this, maybe around half. It's pretty good.   Jan 19, 2024

Their 2011 album is in a different league. Insecure feels to me closer to typical early 2000s death metal plus some atmosphere. It still has genuine emotion and is quite catchy. Not as original or impactful as their later work, but still good through & through.   Jan 19, 2024

There are lots of great moments on this album. Here & there, I felt like the songs could be better, but lacked that underlying Celtic Frost gusto that their music usually has. Maybe they could've tried another session for some of the songs... Anyway, still good overall.   Jan 17, 2024

A truly excellent album by Windir. Their rousing melodies are unique and the spirit of their songs deepened black metal's ethnic element, which artists from all cultures are now exploring. This last album is so close to a perfect score for me. Massive respect to Windir for keeping it this real for their whole career.   Jan 17, 2024

군터 베르노의 부재가 오히려 곡의 diversity가 증가하는 방향으로 귀결되어 조금 변화된 VP를 느낄수있다. 그 와중에 코어는 전혀 흔들리지 않고 너무나 탄탄한 장르의 전형을 보여주는 뛰어난 앨범이다. 이들 특유의 늘어짐이 가끔은 지루하기도 하지만, 이정도 내공에 이정도 앨범을 찍어내는 이들은 결코 없으므로, 이제 당연히 명예의 전당에 입성해야 한다.   May 10, 2024

군제대 후 이 앨범을 듣고 충격을 받았던 기억이 생생...토비아스의 천재성이 드러난 앨범 바이올린을 전공했던 큰 애가 요즘도 가끔 연주하는 "Vain Glory Opera"   Apr 25, 2024

간만에 듣는 수작 프로그레시브 젠트 앨범. 개인적으로 프록을 좋아하지 않음에도 불구하고 리프가 살아있고 복잡한 연주보다는 분위기나 리듬이 강조되어 듣는 재미가 배가 되었다. 보컬이 그로울링이었더라면 취향 100점 짜리 앨범이 되었지 않을까라는 생각도 드는 앨범.   Apr 29, 2024

전작 "Cowboys from Hell" 에 이은 연타석 홈런...얼터가 판치기 시작하던 때 꿋꿋이 버텨 준...   Apr 30, 2024

very good album by Vanden Plas. These prog metallers know how to make a good album.   May 1, 2024

DT와 더불어 가장 활발한 활동을 하는 스틸 얼라이브 프록메탈 밴드로 영국의 대표밴드 스래쉬홀드와 더불어 독일을 대표하는 프록메탈밴드로 아주 훌륭한 연주력과 작곡력이 이번 앨범에도 퍼포먼스에 광을 내고 있다   May 3, 2024

1990년도에 대체 무슨 일이 있었길래... rust in peace, painkiller, spiritual healing, cowboys from hell까지... 가슴이 웅장해진다. 나머지 앨범들도 손에 꼽을 정도로 좋아하는 앨범이지만 거의 모든 곡이 취향 저격인 앨범은 이것 밖에 없다.   May 7, 2024

드디어 이들의 약점이었던 절제된 기타솔로가 어느정도 해금되었습니다. 지난 앨범도 만족스러웠는데 역시나 이번에도 실망하지 않게 해주네요. 나이가 들어감에 따라 내가 좋아하는 밴드들도 하나둘씩 늙어가고 멤버들도 세상을 떠나는 걸 보니 매우 슬프네요. 반덴플라스는 계속 음악활동 왕성히 해주었으면 좋겠습니다   May 8, 2024

리치가 베이스를 1–3, 6를 연주했다. 그 외의 스튜디오는 밥 데이즐리 연주. 어렸을 때에는 1,5를 굉장히 좋아했었는데 문제는 5를 라센 시기에는 듣질 못했었다. 지금은 오히려 4번 같은 곡이 애청곡이 되었다. 앨범으로 기준으로도 1,2집보다 더 좋아했던 기억이 있다. 8번은 역시나 디오의 또 다른 보컬 맛을 느끼기 좋은 곡. 디오 재적시의 앨범은 영원할 것 같다.   Apr 20, 2024

3인조 코로너의 전 앨범 특히 2,3,4집을 좋아합니다. 옛날에 3집을 LP로 구입했었는데 속지에 시계, 스위스, 큰 글자로 '그로테스크' 라고 적힌 기억이.. 이후 90년대 중후반에 걸쳐서 전 앨범을 시디로 하나씩 모았죠. 30년간 신보를 안 내고 재결성 후에 아직도 활동하는 것도 특이한데, 그만큼 고정팬들이 많다는거 거겠죠.   Apr 25, 2024

올해의 명반!   Apr 28, 2024

카르카스 앨범 중 최고 명반이 아닐까!!!   Apr 30, 2024

Absolute crushing, heavy as fuck!   May 3, 2024

이름값에 걸맞는 앨범. 특히 유럽 내에서 그들의 인기는 타의 추종을 불허한다. 처음부터 끝까지 단단한 구성과 강력한 연주가 여전하다. 하지만 들은 후 이렇다할 임팩트나 싱글지향적 멜로디 부재의 한끝이 아쉽다.   May 5, 2024

개인적으로 이 앨범을 그렇게 좋아하지 않는다. 이 앨범이야 말로 방향성이 애매했던 프로듀싱과 작곡으로 생각보다 안좋네 라고 생각했던 앨범. 물론 메탈 갓이 주다스의 시그니쳐로 쓰이기는 한데 이 곡도 애매하다. 브레이킹 더 로나 리빙도 맘에 안들고 물론 관중과 싱어롱할때는 좋긴 하다고 생각은 하지만 말이다. 75-80점.6번 8번이 의외로 좋다.   May 8, 2024

밀레니엄 시기의 소위 '팝수성' 가득한 사운드로 청자를 타격한다. 특기할만한 것은 그 타격 지점이 RATM도, Limp Bizkit과 Korn, Slipknot도 내딛지 않았던 공간이라는 사실.   May 10, 2024

very good album by Sepultura. Also, the front cover of Arise is excellent.   May 12, 2024

20세기의 끝을 알리는 멜데스의 걸작이다. 끝내주는 멜로디 하나로 메탈을 좋아하지 않거나 입문하는 사람들에게도 권해볼만한 작품   7 days ago

이 앨범 그냥 시대를 관통했습니다. 2030 고독사가 늘어나고 점점 사람들과의 관계가 멀어져 가는 요즘 시대에 살아가는 우리들에게 받아야할 위로를 이 앨범이 하나의 동화처럼 들려주기 때문입니다. 그리고 이 앨범의 모티브가 된 실화는 현 우리나라의 문제점을 그대로 나타나는 게 더 소름돋습니다.   7 days ago