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Album Review: Warbringer – Woe to The Vanquished

By Ryan Falla

Take a look to the blue skies above you. Now imagine a sudden flash of light, it gets hot and your skin starts to burn. The soundwaves from the blast that just ruptured the sky is so powerful it blows away the remnants of your melting skin and leaves you as a living, perpetually decomposing husk. The skies are covered with a blanket of ash from the nuclear winter as all life is blotted out of existence. Imagine the playground scene from Terminator 2 played on frame-by-frame mode, each frame of the nuclear destruction extended into a lifetime.

This is Warbringer. Continue reading “Album Review: Warbringer – Woe to The Vanquished”

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Album Review: Deficiency – The Dawn of Consciousness

By Rosie Walker

From the northern regions of France emerges the metal act, Deficiency. Kicking things off back in 2008, these fellas have flourished in France and most of Europe since. Deficiency really grabbed the scene’s attention with their last album ‘The Prodigal Child’ in 2013 and everyone has been waiting to see what they do next. Their third record that comes out next week, ’The Dawn of Consciousness’, is a cool, cohesive concept album that explodes with ferocious intensity and does not disappoint. Continue reading “Album Review: Deficiency – The Dawn of Consciousness”

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Review: Edge of Paradise – Alive EP

By Andrew Bansal

Los Angeles based metal quartet Edge Of Paradise was formed in 2011 but has already gained attention, recognition and respect in the LA hard rock and heavy metal community through their two full-length albums ‘Mask’ (2011) and ‘Immortal Waltz’ (2015) as well as live performances. While they embarked on several adventures into unchartered territories far and beyond LA in the last year or two, they were also hard at work on new music, and the result is now in front us, in the band’s first EP and third release, ‘Alive’. Continue reading “Review: Edge of Paradise – Alive EP”

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Album Review: Demonic Resurrection – Dashavatar

By Francisco Zamudio

I couldn’t imagine a world closed off to music from different parts of it. Like math, it’s a language that crosses borders, breaks down walls, stretches the mind and emotion, and informs the listener about the world around you. This is heavily apparent only in rock and metal music, where instrumentation takes songwriting to different plains and mixes in its influences from its surroundings and its culture, in many worldly instances. The evolution of metal has reached all corners of the world and to dismiss and ignore that music is a crime and disservice to metal everywhere. Here now we have a phenomenal group from India named Demonic Resurrection, who on their fifth album have evolved into what modern metal fans, especially death metal fans, look for – or didn’t even know that they wanted. ‘Dashavatar’ is a solid album from beginning to end involving lots of atmosphere and subtleties that sharpen the sound. Continue reading “Album Review: Demonic Resurrection – Dashavatar”

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Album Review: Body Count – Bloodlust

By Doug Walker

Back in the early ’90s, as metal was giving way to grunge a few years before the record industry began to die, Body Count stepped firmly on the scene and delivered a crossover masterpiece like none other with their debut release, featuring seminal hip-hop pioneer Ice T and metal guitar mastermind Ernie C. It was, quite possibly the most definitive and literal example of heavy metal/hip-hop crossover that had come out at the time. This was when music was still “dangerous” and they were in a whirlwind of controversy over their anthem ‘Cop Killer’. I don’t know how to explain it to anyone who didn’t live through it, but they pissed everyone’s parents off more than any other metal band, which made them very easy to love. Throughout their career, they’ve been sporadic with their releases, but the newest one comes a few years from its predecessor and has all the teeth and heaviness you would expect if you had only heard their first album. Continue reading “Album Review: Body Count – Bloodlust”