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Written by Liu
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 18:52 |
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Cruz Del Sur
Few years back Pharaoh released The Longest Night, a highly regarded album in the power metal field. Mixing powerful guitar playing, epic songwriting and the supremely underrated vocal talents of Tim Aymar, the album was a breath of very fresh air in a genre that was well past choking on an overflow of me-too worthless bands. The follow up had a lot to live up to, nevermind deliver anything in the league of By The Night Sky, the sort of epic power metal song that'll make you get on a steed and gallop into a forest to battle ogres.
Be Gone does this, and so much more.
The first thing of note is that this isn't actually a power metal album, not in the way that The Longest Night was. Instead, Pharaoh has delivered a perfect heavy metal album. Pharaoh has taken a much more intricate approach this time, much in the same way that early Dio, Fates Warning and Queensryche did. The songs are deceptively simpler in comparison to the grandiose nature of The Longest Night, but there's brilliant subtlety that becomes more and more apparent on each successive listen. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 January 2009 19:33 |
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Read the full review [Pharaoh - Be Gone]
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Shorter Than Danzig: End Of Year Blowout |
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Written by Liu
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 15:22 |
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So here we are, with another year gone and a new one ushered in. In an effort to address the ever-growing pile of albums that I want to review, but just never can't find the time to, I'm gonna toss all of them in here and wipe the plate clean. So here we go, with what will no doubt be the longest Shorter Than Danzig to date. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:40 |
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Click here to read this massive set of reviews [Shorter Than Danzig: End Of Year Blowout]
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Dream Theater - Chaos In Motion 2007 - 2008 DVD |
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Written by Liu
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:06 |
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Roadrunner
Answer this multiple choice question:
Do you like Dream Theater?
A) Yes, I like all or most of their material.
B) Yes, but only their albums with Kevin Moore.
C) Yes, until they started playing nu-metal.
D) No, Dream Toilet sucks.
If you answered A, then read on.
If you answered B, then stop reading because you're a lost cause.
If you answered C, then you're a fucking tool.
If you answered D, then why are you reading this?
Dream Theater live albums are usually a special treat for the die hard fan (I say usually because Score was a fucking abomination). Their latest live offering, Chaos In Motion 2007 - 2008, is no different. Chronicling their Chaos In Motion world tour, this live set contains 3 hours of material culled from every corner of the band's back catalog. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:41 |
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Read the full review [Dream Theater - Chaos In Motion 2007 - 2008 DVD]
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The Faceless - Planetary Duality |
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Written by Steve Holetz
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 21:52 |
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Sumerian Records 2008 “A vile adversary approaches with haste; the immense conqueror hides the sun…” So begins the title track of Planetary Duality, the latest from Los Angeles based tech/prog/death metal collective The Faceless [Link], authors of the brilliant 2006 debut Akeldama, a disc I did my level best to wear out over the past 18 months. As I stated in my reviews of the last two Summer Slaughter tours,[2008 Link], [2007 Link], I have long been impressed with The Faceless, and their rare ability to make highly technical metal accessible to ALL metal fans, through singular songwriting that incorporates cutting edge technicality with a great sense of metal history, something which I find truly notable for such a young group. As such, I couldn’t wait to hear this latest release, although wait I would due to a local music chains preposterous inability to ever get the damn thing in stock. But that’s another story… |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:42 |
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Read the full review [The Faceless - Planetary Duality]
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Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery |
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Written by Steve Holetz
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Friday, 21 November 2008 06:14 |
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Peaceville 2008
Mikael Akerfeldt is a busy man. Hot on the heels of the release and tour for Opeth's Watershed, Mikael jumped back into the studio with Swedish supergroup Bloodbath to record their latest platter of molten death, The Fathomless Mastery.
For the uninitiated, Akerfeldt originally formed Bloodbath in 1998 with Dan Swano and Anders "Blackheim" Nystrom of Katatonia/Bewitched fame, in order to fulfill their urge to play the old-school Swedish death metal that we all know and love (much as ex-Entombed, Ex-Hellacopter Nicke Anderson would later do with his own Death Breath). Two incredibly strong releases followed in the Breeding Death EP and Resurrection Through Carnage. Akerfeldt stepped away from Bloodbath in 2004 to focus on Opeth, and was replaced by Hypocrisy's Peter Tatgren for the steller Nightmares made Flesh. Mikael rejoined the band late last year in time to cut the Unblessing the Purity EP, which has yet to be released stateside. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 23 November 2008 07:37 |
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Read the full review [Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery]
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