Authors: THE BUTCHER
Review: Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome
Ooh, tricky — I thought by the title and statue on the cover, this would be gothic metal or power metal, but it’s just another piece-of-shit screamo band. … read more
Review: With Passion – In the Midst of Bloodied Soil
It’s hit-and-miss with Earache Records anymore. It seems as though they are attempting to out-cheese Century Media and Metal Blade by signing SHIT!!! … read more
Review: Testament – Seen Between the Lines DVD
Their previous singer before the band ever got signed ended up in Exodus. That’s about it here—so if you like Testament, go for it. … read more
Review: Ritual Carnage – I, Infidel
There’s a lot of declaration in metal these days—“I, Monarch!” “I, Infidel!” What’s the deal? Anyway, stuff from Japan kicks ass, and there’s no exception here. … read more
Review: Phazm – Hate at First Seed
Phazm are a French band that sound more like Amebix than any of their death metal contemporaries. This came across during the first listen as kind of plain. … read more
Review: Origin – Echoes of Decimation
Clocking in with nine tracks (no intros!) in just under half an hour, you might suspect that Origin’s newest release in well over five years is fast. … read more
Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh
MORTICIAN RE-ANIMATED DEAD FLESH Mortician Records Mortician = Do you really need this? Okay- Cannibal Corpse + Napalm Death + Incantation The seventh album from the Relapse Records-professed “World’s Heaviest Band” is unleashed upon the world! Imagine tuning your guitar so low it sounds like a low-tuned bass, and your bass tuning is so
Review: Lost Soul – Chaostream
Lost Soul Chaostream Earache Records By the horns of Satan, I had to listen to this album twice just to make sure it was as insanely kick ass as I first thought it was! INDEED it was! When you hear Lost Soul, you will KNOW that you have been brutalized and punished to the
Review: Impaled – Death After Life
Impaled Death After Life Century Media Records As I scraped shredded meat off of the scalpels and saws on my block, I noticed the pus oozing from the new Impaled disc. Pathological waste in the form of oozing riffage at once encrusted my eardrums. It was at this point that I deduced the flesh-shredding
Review: Hell-Born – Legacy Of The Nephilim
Hell-Born Legacy of the Nephilim Conquer Records Hell-Born is a band from Poland that sounds remarkably close in style to Japan’s Hellchild. This album has a definite thrash metal feel in the guitar playing, as well as the way the vocalist belts out the lyrics, but that’s as close to thrash as this gets. The
Review: Hate Eternal – I, Monarch
I think Hate Eternal had reached “blur status,” and had to take it down a notch. Not bad for three guys from back East. Imagine Suffocation, but less sloppy. … read more
Review: God Dethroned – Lair Of The White Worm
GOD DETHRONED LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM Metal Blade God Dethroned = Behemoth + Krisiun + Hate Eternal + Seance From the Netherlands, God Dethroned have been at it for over ten years now. Their first album, Christhunt, was released if I remember correctly in 1992, and received some minimal praise in the newly
