Amon Amarth

Happy Metal Guy Comments: On The Carry-Over Effects in Music-Reviewing And Other Scientific Mumbo-Jumbo

Happy Metal Guy Comments: On The Carry-Over Effects in Music-Reviewing And Other Scientific Mumbo-Jumbo

By Happy Metal Guy on June 19, 2013 in Blog Posts, 14 comments

“I guess you could say this is Happy Metal Guy’s version of Angry Metal Guy’s well-known article on objectivity mixed with Steel Druhm’s rant about the trials of a music reviewer. In research methodology, there is a phenomenon called “carry-over effects”. This refers to the problem of a previous experimental treatment’s effects on research subjects carrying over to the next experiment the subjects are participating in, which is likely to confound the results of that experiment.” In one of the strangest posts ever at AMG, Happy Metal Guy dons a lab coat and attempts to redefine the ongoing struggle for reviewer objectivity through the prism of science, scientology, phrenology, eugenics and other illegal human experimentation. In short, he aims to blind us all…with (junk) SCIENCE!

Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods Review

Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods Review

By Angry Metal Guy on June 18, 2013 in 2013, 4.0, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 42 comments

“Amon Amarth. It should be no secret that the fanboys of Angry Metal Guy dot com love this band. With With Oden on Our Side ranking in at #12 on my Top 15(ish) of the 2000s list, and Steel Druhm popping an uncharacteristically exuberant and punny woody over 2011’s Surtur Rising, it should come as no surprise to you that Amon Amarth’s new record was definitely on the Angry Metal Radar™. In my opinion, though, Amon Amarth has been weak since 2006’s extraordinarily mighty WOoOS (pronounced like it’s spelled), which broke them for the world market. Follow up Twilight of the Thunder God was tepid and too clean, and Surtur Rising felt like an over correction and hasn’t aged well, either. So color me skeptical: Amon Amarth hasn’t done anything for me for two records and 5 years—would that change now?”

Ennead – Frozen Eyes Review

Ennead – Frozen Eyes Review

By Angry Metal Guy on May 16, 2012 in 2012, 4.0, Groove Metal, Heavy Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Unsigned Bands, 5 comments

It is, as you all know, difficult to keep up with the number of unsigned bands that we get music from. But, usually as a matter of luck, I occasionally decide that I have time to check something out (or I’m just avoiding my work). Fortunately, I followed the link to a Bandcamp (that’s usually a thing that gets me to click unsigned bands) for some itsy-bitsy, teeny, teeny, teeny-tiny Swedish metalcore-influenced prog-metallers Ennead who are writing music better than a lot of signed acts that I get these days when they can’t even grow facial hair. Sometimes I follow links and am unimpressed and turn the shit off, saving the band face. In this case, however, Ennead snuck up on me and surprised—and impressed—the hell out of me.

Blood Mortized – The Key to a Black Heart Review

Blood Mortized – The Key to a Black Heart Review

By Steel Druhm on May 7, 2012 in 2012, 4.5, Death Metal, FDA Rekotz, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Death Metal, 12 comments

Just in time to wash away the bitter taste of Six Feet Under, comes this ridiculously sick death metal masterstroke by Blood Mortized. Taking the vicious old school Swedish death sound from their Bestial EP and improving on it in every way, The Key to a Black Heart is exactly what you want from the style and death metal in general.