Thin Lizzy laid the blueprints for bands like Iron Maiden, with “Emerald” being a perfect example with the duel guitar work and epic feel. Yet another band ruined by drugs.
[...]Thin Lizzy laid the blueprints for bands like Iron Maiden, with “Emerald” being a perfect example with the duel guitar work and epic feel. Yet another band ruined by drugs.
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Today marks the 8th anniversary of the death of the “Father of Death Metal,” Chuck Schuldiner. Chuck Schuldiner wasn’t just an originator of death metal, he was an innovator. He was an artist who just happened to hone his craft through heavy metal. He was a blessing [...]
So recently there has been an influex of best of the decade lists circulating throughout the Net, and I couldn’t let AMR sit on its laurels on such a momentous occasion. The last decade has seen probably the biggest surge in metal’s popularity since the mid-80’s, if not more, and [...]
Apparently Rolling Stone has published an article listing Metallica’s Kirk Hammet and Lars Ulrich’s top 25 albums AND songs of the decade. There’s some interesting choices here, very diverse, but it’s also easy to tell why there hasn’t been a significant Metallica album in the last decade…and longer. Kid Rock? [...]
In an effort to pick up this year’s slack, I am going to be checking out past albums from this year that we here at AMR missed, which will then be followed by my end of the year top 10 list for 2009! So lets get things started:
Ever wonder what happens in the studio during the recording process of a new album? The laughter, the frustrations, the antics? Well, we have some great news for you! Bay Area thrash metal progenitors Exodus have just announced a series of special, upcoming LIVE in-studio web streams throughout the month [...]
Album: Violent Revolution
Label: Steamhammer/SPV
Year: 2001
Sometimes, I don’t get raw black metal. I feel like bands who fit into that genre try way too hard to be kult and true to what they feel is the ultimate sound of black metal. Recording your albums to create a wall of sound with very [...]
You know all those crazy videos that you see posted everywhere in the metal community? You know, the smooth jazz version of Lamb of God’s “Set to Fail”, or the Disney radio version of “Hammer Smashed Face” by Cannibal Corpse? These vids have become quite the phenomenon, particularly on Youtube, [...]
HYPNO5E, the French progressive metallers who are set, in this author’s mind, to take the Americas by storm in 2010. With the popularity of their countrymen Gojira, and that off style of metal that has caught on so enthusiastically, HYPNO5E are a shoe-in with an even more [...]
From the press release:
“Pagan/folk metal has been growing in popularity for years and has virtually overthrown black metal in Europe. These bands have tested the American shores playing to sold-out venues from coast to coast. The time has come to explore this unsuspected invasion. Pagan Metal: A Documentary is the [...]
Walken, a Bay Area progressive thrash band has released their second full length, self released album of their own namesake. This is definitely an interesting album which brings aspects of traditional progressive metal, crossover thrash and post metal/sludge rumblings, which is quite different than the likes of [...]
Ramming Speed is a band I have been following for a couple of years now mainly due to the fact that they are an awesome band who hails from none other than Boston, Mass. I am a huge thrash fan, and most of the great modern thrashers [...]
So we here at AMR have a new writer amongst us! Her name is Dalia, and she is a definite wordsmith, bringing a new personal aspect to her prose which can be read in two reviews she has written prior to this post. I’m sure she will let everyone know [...]
Wizardry. When I had heard of this band, I assumed that this was just another “garage band.” A band that had thrown together a bunch of sounds that sounded kind of good when they had tried them all separately. Then recorded it on their crappy equipment, and [...]
Noctis Imperium. An up and coming band from Venezuela that promises to “unleash it’s disease on humanity,” with their “anti-religious” lyrics and “shear brutality.” Same old song from a different bird some may say, as this band sticks to a very similar formula as most [...]
Hey everyone! I know I was talking about starting up a review section for vinyl, and I am just getting around to doing it now after finding a suitable camera for taking photos(I could never justify buying a camera since I wouldn’t use it very often…figures). Anyway, so as to [...]
The “US Plague Tour”, featuring Marduk, Nachtmystium, Black Anvil, Mantic RItual, and Merrimack that was scheduled to stop at the Key Club on Friday, December 4th, has been moved, due to the Key Club closing it doors to re-model. The new location for the show, is the Salon Royal (Royal [...]
Oi vey…alright, I think I have reached my capacity. I have received umpteen million stoner and post metal albums (alright, maybe far less than that), and despite the overall positive quality of the releases, consisting of massive amounts of innovation, I think the market is beginning to [...]
Anyone who knows this blog knows about my massive appreciation of the new French prog death metallers HYPNO5E, whom are poised to make a dramatic impact on the American market very, very soon on the Metal As Art tour followed closely by another tour. On [...]
Doro Pesch is well known for one thing, being a hot, confident vocalist within the heavy metal genre. Starting out in the German group Warlock, Doro achieved some notoriety, most notably some video coverage on MTV (again, mainly because she was a talented hot vocalist with some [...]
Technicality and elegance amongst the progressive elite didn’t start in metal, and in fact, all of the hallmarks that make progressive “metal” so impressive can all be traced back to the greats that made progressive rock separate from the rest of the world. Dead Heroes Club is [...]
Brand new video for Across the Sun’s “Angelic Deception” from their brand new EP Pestilence and Rapture available now on iTunes!
[...]Legendary death metal giants Master will embark on a five-week South American tour, stretching 15 dates across numerous Brazilian territories. Dubbed Masters Of Hate 2010, the tour will commence on January 14, 2010 with a final destination at the Otacílio Rock Festival in Santa Catarina, Brazil on February 21, 2010. [...]
Unlike many of their thrash peers from their 80’s heyday, Slayer has remained as heavy as ever, putting out album after album of pulse pounding, boundary pushing, audible heresy. However, many metalheads (i.e. those who don’t cut themselves in the name of the band as a form [...]
I find it kind of funny that Puscifer is so popular amongst the metal community considering it really isn’t metal music. In fact, there isn’t a heavy riff to be found anywhere on Puscifer’s latest effort, “C” is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here) E.P., but [...]
First and foremost, let me preface this review by saying that my thoughts are with Evile after the untimely passing of bassist Mike Alexander. While not as a result of unnatural causes if you will, Mike’s passing reminds me too much of Cliff Burton’s death. Mike died [...]
Nov 20 2009 6:00P Elgin, Illinois
Nov 21 2009 6:00P Grand Rapids, Michigan
Nov 22 2009 6:00P Louisville, Kentucky
Nov 23 2009 6:00P Rochester, New York
Nov 24 2009 6:00P Buffalo, New York
Nov 25 2009 6:00P Cincinnati, Ohio
Nov 27 2009 6:00P Columbus, Ohio
Nov 28 [...]
Cali doom rockers Dusted Angel confirm a five-day West Coast jaunt with Nebula late this month and into December.
The Santa Cruz-based doom/rock unit DUSTED ANGEL features members of Bl’ast, Spaceboy, Gargautula and more. Their debut EP is available via Itunes now, with an extra song that is not available on [...]
I was looking forward to this album for sometime from Portuguese prog metallers Factory of Dreams after listening to one song which I thought held a lot of potential. After waiting for several weeks, I finally received the full length A Strange Utopia, upon listening to it [...]
Hungarian black metal. Just writing that makes it sound evil and foreboding doesn’t it? Aetherius Obscuritas have been around since 2002, but Black Medicine is my first exposure to the band, and it’s definitely a well received one.
The vocals of Arkhorrl (who actually also records all the [...]
I never thought of it really, but Soviet Russia, as a concept, was meant to be played in doom metal. The unbearable cold days, totalitarian oppression, and vodka….lots of vodka. What could spell doom more than the KGB dragging you out of a brothel by your toes [...]
We all know that metal vids can be dreadful, so we can let the quality of this one slide since it’s for such a fantastic song. This is Scar Symmetry’s “Noumenon And Phenomenon” off of their latest album, Dark Matter Dimensions.
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I have no qualms about revealing my utter admiration for the band known as Scar Symmetry. Their last two albums have been totally brilliant, so when I found out that vocalist Christian Ãlvestam was departing the band, I was quite dismayed as I never really thought Scar [...]
Now I don’t about you guys, but I’d kill to have ribs with Obituary BBQ sauce on them! Weird you say? I don’t even give a care, because Obituary rocks, so the BBQ sauce must do the same. It’s fate. Here is the press release:
Trevor Peres, guitarist of long running [...]
Baltimore’s Anubis Unbound, a metalcore/melodic death metal band, released their first full length last year in the form of Through Cursed Eyes. This is the first I have heard from this outfit, and one thing I am very happy to hear is a lack of deathcore in [...]
I am not a huge fan of this band, but this video is fucking amazing. It reminds me of the creepy vibes from Tool videos.
[...]New York punk/noise rock enthusiasts Tournament are hitting the road for the following dates:
11/07/2009 The Shop – Ithaca, NY w/ Sepsis, Hiroshima Vacation
11/08/2009 Mohawk Place – Buffalo, NY w/ Fucking Hot Lights, Co- Workers
11/09/2009 *NEED HELP!! PA / OH / MI
11/10/2009 Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
11/11/2009 The Bishop – [...]
Candlelight Records today confirms February 9 as the American release date for Mechanize, the seventh studio album from Fear Factory. Mechanize features the highly reported reconciliation of vocalist Burton C. Bell with original guitarist Dino Cazares along with bassist Byron Stroud and journeyman drummer Gene Hoglan (Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad). [...]
Not the best audio, but between hers and Nightwish’s Marco Hietala vocals, the band’s live performance of “Control the Storm” from Delain’s latest album April Rain seemed like a damn good one. Oh, and Charlotte Wessels is incredibly smoking hot. Thank God she is in a metal band.
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Noriega is a band I have been waiting to appear on the scene. Combining metalcore and doom metal, Noriega are finally that bridge between the stoner/doom sensation of the last year or two, and the recent past’s indelible presence of metalcore. Ironically though, despite having a very [...]
We have raved about HYPNO5E’s release Des Deux L’une Est L’Autre here at AMR, so I am very pleased to see them getting a headlining gig over Revocation and The Binary Code, who are already stirring up some attention in America. Also am I the only [...]
California’s Rusty Eye and their album Possessor pose an interesting question: how do you take the horror cliche and not make it so “Hot Topic” like. Looking at the band’s promo poster, the members look like they were given a $500 gift card to their nearest Hot [...]
The Dark Castle van never idles for very long… they’re back out on the road now for another long stretch up the East Coast, Midwest and Southern US. The duo is storming through towns alongside The Atlas Moth for the majority of the tour, and also joined by Black Cobra, [...]
Well, not out and out metal like some of their counterparts, by La Fin Du Monde play off the success of Isis and the new release from A Storm of Light to bring us Californian styled instrumental rock, and it’s damn good! I do have to wonder though, does the [...]
Here are the announced bands thus far for next year’s festival taking place in Tilburg, Netherlands form April 30th through May 1st, 2010. Further details can be accessed here.
Beheaded
Beneath The Massacre
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
Defeated Sanity
Dying Fetus
Dr Doom
Enemy Reign
Insidious Decrepancy
Insision
Human Mincer
Kickback
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Dates are as follows:
11.02.09 Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
11.03.09 Trees Dallas, TX
11.08.09 Chácara do Jockey
11.11.09 The Blender Theatre at Gramercy [NIGHT 1] New York, NY
11.13.09 The Blender Theatre at Gramercy [NIGHT 2] New York, NY
11.14.09 The Blender Theatre at Gramercy [NIGHT 3] New York, NY
11.16.09 The Metro, Chicago, [...]
Hailing from Venezuela, Chaos Avatar is a band you probably haven’t heard of. I know that before getting a press release from the band’s management, I had never heard of them either. However, that quickly changed after listening to a couple of the band’s albums. I was [...]
