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New Keepers of the Water Towers’ – Infernal Machine Review

By Madam X on April 1, 2016 in 2016, Listenable Records, Non-Metal Metal Things, Not Metal, Post-metal, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Non-metal Metal Things, Not Metal, Post-Metal, 19 comments

“Infernal Machine is a seven-part journey, creating the soundtrack to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War. The story, loosely depicts Haldeman’s military service during the Vietnam War, with the account chronicled as a space opera where the military fails to see its soldiers as any more than complex and valuable machines. This seems a large musical undertaking, especially in light that Ridley Scott has had the film idea “in production” since back in 2008….” An odd prog band bringing to life a weird novel? What could go wrong?

Nekrogoblikon – Heavy Meta Review

By Madam X on May 22, 2015 in 2015, American Metal, Folk Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Music Box, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Folk Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, 13 comments

“We all have a little touch of crazy inside us. You know what I mean; trapped laughter that rumbles out with such force it makes your belly hurt. Sadly with all the hullabaloo and day-to-day grind we forget to stop and breath, but more importantly, we forget to laugh. American melo-death merchants, Nekrogoblikon have made it their mission to remind us that tapping into our crazy and embracing the silly is just downright necessary and I support that!” Goblins are the medium, meta is the message.

Madmans Esprit – Nacht Review

By Dr. A.N. Grier on October 6, 2014 in 2014, A Sad Sadness Song, Avante Garde, Black Metal, Gothic Metal, Korean Metal, Reviews, Black Metal, Gothic Metal, 4 comments

“It turns out I’m a judgmental son of a bitch. I admit it, I label people before they even open their mouths and I usually find many decisions made by others to be dumb and immature. I don’t mean to be this way, but I’m very much a person that “judges a book by its cover.” However, I have to say that nothing pleases me more than discovering that the dickhead talking to me with his Corona Light and sport coat over a Superman shirt is actually cool as shit. I like to be proved wrong about someone’s character. It makes for a much better conversation. The same goes for music.” We like judgmental types around here, since we’re in the judging business and all. And this one deserved some real serious judgment.

Anathema – Weather Systems Review

By Angry Metal Guy on March 30, 2012 in 2012, 4.5, English Metal, Kscope, Not Metal, Progressive Metal, Releases, Reviews, Not Metal, 45 comments

You can take the dirty hippy out of metal, but you can’t take the metal out of the dirty hippy.

The Human Abstract – Digital Veil Review

By Angry Metal Guy on March 8, 2011 in 2011, 4.5, American Metal, Deathcore, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Deathcore, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, 13 comments

One of the things that I consistently tell people when they give me shit (which they inevitably do) about my taste in music is that you should call a spade a spade and like what you like without apologies. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have biases, however, and one of those biases that I have is against things that can be labelled as “metalcore” or “deathcore.” Since the early aughts we’ve been plagued by shitty record after shitty record from post-hardcore entities that have been passed off on us as the next big thing and that have ultimately felt sad and tired and not good. I recently ripped into Architects, for example, for being billed as ‘reinventing metalcore and themselves,’ only to produce an epic fail of a record.