I wake up and look around me. The dark-red ice is still coating the interior of the church. This can only mean one thing – I am still trapped within the nightmare.
Hooded Menace – Effigies of Evil Review
Ah, what could be better than nasty, heavy-as-hell Finnish doom-death to ease the transition from summer to fall. In case you haven’t heard, winter is coming…
Down: Down IV Part I: The Purple EP Review
F.A.G. lets his Down fanboyism run amok as he discusses Hurricane Katrina, drugs, the Bayou and good old fashioned metal. Long live NOLA!
Evocation – Illusions of Grandeur Review
Evocation once walked amongst the likes of Dismember and Entombed. Now, they travel the road to common melo-death and some (Steel Druhm) are not pleased by this switcheroo. Send him beer and beef jerky so he can get through these difficult times.
Satan’s Wrath – Galloping Blasphemy Review
Satan’s Wrath play necro-style blackened thrash with a thick coating of evil. Madam X loves all things necro. She’s a hopeless necromantic.
Sabbath Assembly – Ye Are Gods Review
Steel Druhm keeps getting the weirdo hippie albums and nobody knows why! Sabbath Assembly is the strangest yet and featured members of Hammers of Misfortune performing eerie, psychedelic church music designed to raise Satan and bring about the apocalypse. And you thought church was boring!
Vision of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed Review
Alex discusses the rise and fall of hardcore heroes Vision of Disorder and also takes a few swipes at Long Island music fans. Let’s hope Steel Druhm doesn’t read that part.
Bombs of Hades – The Serpent’s Redemption Review
Bombs of Hades delivers an album of punky Swedish retro death loaded with crust and scabs. Our intrepid Steel Druhm is here to pick ’em all and find out what lies beneath. It ain’t pretty.
Behexen – Nightside Emanations Review
Behexen are very much creatures of the second wave of European black metal, and their identities are firmly rooted in that aesthetic and culture. Not ones to deviate from their chosen path, and certainly not about to start experimenting now. Rather than opting to make drastic changes in approach, they have instead chosen to pursue subtle refinement. Staying within the rigidly proscribed confines of raw, early black metal, Behexen up the finest interpretation of that sound that they can while still maintaining its integrity.
Rival Sons – Head Down Review
F.A.G. is as anti-retro as Steel Druhm is anti-tax. That means the Led Zeppliny goodness of Rival Sons is gonna fall on angry, bitter ears. At least he doles out some useful Angry Metal History before flipping the grumpy switch.