Reviews

When I received this Cd, the info sheet claimed that this was a release of "Negative Metal", so my first question was, what the hell is negative Metal? Is some kind of weird experimentation?…

Can you hear the Hammerhead over Reading? I bet the audience could as Samson played their set on the famous festival in 1981. 1980 - 1981 in fact was a period for a small glance at fame for the quartet…

Eternal Oath are a Swedish band, and I know what are you thinking, they're playing Melodic Death Metal, Gothenburg style, while this is not completely untrue, Eternal Oath have a lot of differential…

We are lucky this year. Exodus is back, Death Angel came back as well and now this is the turn of Hirax, with their great frontman and leader Katon W De Pena, the two excellent lead guitarist, Dave Waston…

Norway's Solefald is the collective genius and combined talents of Cornelius [vocals, guitar, bass and samples] and Lazare [vocals, synthesizers, Hammond organ, grand piano and drums and also a member…

Time plays a big role in the choice of single track for the album. The choice itself depends on whether the single comes before or after the release of the album. The one that comes before must make a…

It's Hard to make a good album after an almost perfect one such as Shadows In The Deep, in 1993 Unleashed released Across The Open Sea, a good album with nice songs, weird lyrics and great vocals. Axel…

After 3 long years of waiting, Old Man's Child finally released their fifth Full length Album with Jardar in the guitars, Nicholas Barker (Dimmu Borgir) in the drums, and the almighty Galder in the…

I don't know how much credibility a band can have if they make an album that's packed with lyrics that talk about raping dead girls, or about smashing some random guy's face with a hammer.

Many of you (That heard Kittie before) might find it strange that a Nu-Metal, punk/garage rock band like Kittie is reviewed here on our beloved Metal Storm, but let me tell you the reason why the are here…

If I had to choose a personal favourite among all the gothic metal bands that are around, I guess it would have to be Crematory, for their long and profitable career and their ability to never record twice…

The Wounded are a peculiar Gothic Metal act from Holland, this is their third album, and their first one new label Ebony Tears (sub label of Cold Blood Industries). Although I've heard their previous…

"Last Roar" was recorded in 1999 and released in the USA only, under the name of "Remembering White Lion". Another time again, Mausoleum Records give a chance to all the fans of the…

"Live Ammo" is a recording of the reunion concert LA Guns gave in 1999 with the original line-up [Tracii Guns and Mick Cripps on guitar, Kelly Nickels on bass, Steve Riley on drums and Phil Lewis…

You certainly know Tracii Guns by the fact that this guy is the "Guns" of "Guns & Roses". After 0 albums with the band and a lot of problems with Mr Axel Rose, Tracii founded "LA…

I'll start off by saying that this has to be by far one of my favorite metal albums. It has a bit of everything for everyone in here. From amazing guitar riffs, glorious double bass drumming, breathtaking…

America's Herod had gone from Hardcore to Heavy/Thrash ala old Metallica, Judas Priest and Megadeth. Sounds almost like a fairytale for a real heavy metal fan, don't you think? Well, if we shall…

From the heart of Russia, Moscow, I have in my hands what might be the next big thing on Black Metal my friends, Radigost is the band, and "For The Honor Of Our Truth... For The Honor Of Our Faith"…

You got to be joking me right? Why did I receive this Cd? Not only has it one of the ugliest simplest covers that I've seen this year, but it also contains simplistic and boring music on the inside.

Cruachan is back with a new full length, their fourth one so far. They're pretty know for mixing Irish Folk music with Heavy Metal, or a little something I like to call Folk Metal. Yes, like it or…

Folk Metal is establishing more and more these days as one of the leading sub-genres of Metal, and labels are really pushing forward the development of the genre, what started as a pretty obscure sub-genre,…

Got a little rare treat for all of the Metal Storm readers here, Halor from Hungary, a practically unknown band, and this, their second Demo titled "The Power's Breaking Loose". I'm…

I wonder if anybody's ever gonna beat Shape Of Despair as far as heaviness and slowness are concerned... Seldom have I heard something slower than Angels Of Distress. Slower than that would be going…

Let's continue the raid of Hardrock reviews, I mean, why break such a nice trend? The band that's in the top of the list today is Sweden's Token, with their second album "Punch",…

I got this groovy release from Galy Records of Canada, one of the Canadian labels trying to support good quality Metal in the great white north. Ghoulunatics are no newbies in the scene, this is their…

When I'm already in some kind of Hardrock phase in the reviewing career, I shall continue with it. Next on the list is Italy's Edge of Forever, a relatively young band (with a quite high middle…

Since the talk around a New Wave Of American Metal started that several new bands came up and got more attention. Many say that this is a new group of bands with too high commercial purposes, something…

Morning After is a peculiar band from Greece, a country that possesses beautiful beaches, great landscapes, and to the surprise of many, the first place in the latest edition of the Eurocup. But in difference…

"Scarve", do you know this name? Do you know them? No? Well, in that case, shame on you because this band is certainly one of the revelation of the year directly from France. "Irradiant"…

Open, a creepy synthesized intro with the sounds of moans and slight other discreet noises that only accompany the twisted and obviously dangerous mind of Nattefrost, the longtime front man for Carpathian…

Strange Old Brew, Carpathian Forest's second full album debut is something like their first, but then something completely different. Growing in sounds, explaining into different ways to improve atmosphere…

Morbid Fascination Of Death, the bands breaking point for the most part of this band, along with a degree of line up changes to say the least. The line up, which includes the likes of Tchort who did work…

I can assure you that this is the farest from Metal I ever reviewed, and I'm pretty sure that it won't happen again this year, that I review something like this. But once and a time, this kind…

"Winds Of Torment" is a young band of Melodic Thrash/Death metal in the pure tradition of the bands from northern Europe. This French combo produces here its first demo and "Oh my god!!!"…

"Misanthrope" is one of the oldest extreme Metal bands from France, and also one of the most productive. "Misanthro-Therapie" is the 9th album of the band and certainly one of the most…

I'm sure that if you like classical music, gothic music and Opera, you already know "Chaostar", the Gothic/Opera project of Chris Antoniou of the Greek band "Sceptic Flesh". Their…

Taiwanese Metal, that's something. I wasn't very surprised when I for the first time heard about a new Asian Metal band, Seraphim, since Metal is very big in Japan, and some Japanese bands have…

"Beyon-D-Lusion" is a project from France due to the meeting of two really good musicians. Alexandra Bernard [Vocals] and Medhi Khadouj [Guitars and Keyboards] [Keyboard of the excellent "Furia"].

Through Oaken Shield the subdivision of Adipocere Records for the Black Metal bands, "Malleus Maleficarum" [for the ones who don't know it, the name of the band come from the book of Heinrich…

Some people say this is the top of Unleashed work, that Shadows In The deep is for Unleashed what Master Of Puppets is for Metallica, well let's analyze this one now. Johnny Hedlund is the master…

Are we lucky actually in France or does our young bands really know how to do killer albums now? I don't know? But the fact is that Adipocere just found again a new killer, "Aquilon". Original,…

Continuing my special day with Divinity Destroyed, is time to review their second full length "Eden In Ashes" once again, this guys impressed me with the very cool artwork and general great layout…

Ok, it's time to sit down and finally review the new Ep by my good ol' friends from Divinity Destroyed, which 2001 Cd "Nocturnal Dawn" is also reviewed in Metal Storm, by yours truly…

Four-track Demo album from a Black Metal band from Norway, country that started the whole movement. the band is fronted by Andre Kvebek, guitarist of the well known Norwegian Black Metal band 1349. Pantheon…

Classic Monster of Earache Records! Highly Recommended Some say Heartwork is the last good album that carcass made in their career, well sure it isn't the great symphonies of sickness, but it has…

A new offering from Dark Tranquillity, just to allow us to wait for the new album. This 2 CD pack is composed of a compilation of rare tracks from the Damage Done, Haven and Projector sessions, with their…

The best period in Dokken's career is certainly the eighties, no doubt of that. Ever since that, Dokken had tried to evolve, but nothing they done have giving them the same status, and now they try…

They've really scared me at first. Seriously. When they send their promo to a metal site, these guys should watch what they're saying, because they didn't leave a very good first impression:…

Wait, I know what you are about to say. "Another opera, again? Aren't they tired of it?", "Yes, space! Damn original after Arjen Lucassen and Luca Turilli!" or even "Richard…

Time Requiem is one of the new projects of gifted Swedish keyboard player Richard Andersson. The same line-up was formerly known as Majestic, but Richard though they wanted to change their musical style…

Round two for German Gothic metallers Silence, last release, 2000's "Enola" despite it's beautiful layout and superb production, left a bittersweet taste in my mouth, and I was somewhat…

Yes I know what are you thinking, and I read your mind just right, you're thinking "what a beautiful cover art" yes, I know, I had that same feeling the first time I saw the beautiful cover…

What can music be, more then just music? Well, that's something Life's Decay is showing us. With "Human Art Decay [First Suicide] they giving us Dark music, art, propaganda and whatever…

Actually, I like Gothic Metal, really! And I have very few Gothic Metal bands that I don't like, since almost everything Gothic impresses me, (I'm on my "Gothic Metal" phase, long gone…

I don't know other way to start my review than saying, What an ugly cover art for God's sake!! Ahhh that was liberating? just what my psychiatrist recommended. Anyway, despite obvious esthetics…

It's time for StormWarrior to release the successor to the album that was prized as the real successor to Helloween's debut "Walls of Jericho", and it's also time for StormWarrior…

Damn, you can't imagine the "flashback" I just got, a real car-chase from an old movie from the eighties, in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Bad quality on the movie, and the movie isn't better…

The second album of the russian metallers Aria is called Whom Are You With? This time the sound is much more consolidated and driving to the 80's metal and hard rock that the decade is known for. The…

It happens quite often that a band change their music a bit, to evolve, but it's more rare that bands change their direction totally, from one genre to another, and it's even fewer that can keep…

The legend began in 1985 when the russian heavy metal band Aria (Arija) released their debut album called Megalomania. From this time on the band would be called the russian Iron Maiden, but this is megalomania…

Excalibur, last album of the middle ages trilogy, tells the story and legends among 'King Arthur and The Knights Of The Round Table'. Those myths are formed again under raw lyrics and powerful…

Miss Cadaveria is back with her second full length since she left the ranks of Black Metal act Opera IX, I was partially impressed with her debut album "The Shadows' Madame" the mixture…

Infinited Hate is the band with former members from Sinister, including their vocalist Rachel Kloosterwaard, yes! Angela Gossow is not the only woman in front of a Death Metal band. This 3 piece band is…

Sepsism are a Death Metal outfit from the USA , and the record I'm listening right now is the reissue of their Debut album bearing the same name, this reissue has a new layout and some other bonus…

This album is quite a surprise, I didn't have much hopes for this band and this record, because I wasn't really attracted by it, I don't know what was it, the name, the cover, the Cd itself?…

I won't waste your time here, so this will be quick. Incriminated are from Finland and they're playing Old School Death Metal with Terrible production. And I must say that I don't like this…

Broken Dagger is a young band from Sweden which plays a very good Melodic Power metal. Some months ago I did the review of one another young band from Sweden "Silent Scythe" and I remember that…

I don't really know why people still are forming Black Metal bands, is because is so easy to play? Or to produce? Some Black Metal bands are completely obsolete and pointless, and there's millions…

Although trying to generalize the output of this very accomplished band is a somewhat dangerous practice, I shall have a go anyway. The way I see it, Neurosis releases two kinds of albums. Albums like…

The departure of Mark Jansen, the main songwriter at the time of "Decipher", has, in a way, quite seriously changed the sound of After Forever. The changes haven't been bad but I must admit…