Invisible Oranges

Morbid Saint was a thrash band from Sheboygan, WI that released one album, Spectrum of Death. In 1989, a small Mexican label, Avanzada Metallica, put out the album, which Grind Core reissued in 1991. The band also recorded a set of demos called Destruction System, which Keltic packaged together with Spectrum of Death into one […]

“This is Satanic black metal,” hisses Trondr Nefas to kick off Urgehal‘s new album, Goatcraft Torment (on Agonia Records). Well, no shit, Sherlock. I suppose there’s some Christian black metal out there, but the vast majority of black metal inverts its crosses. But while Urgehal doesn’t break any new ground, the band offers a solid, […]

Mastodon and Iron Maiden reviews are now up at Stylus.

I recently saw Vreid open for Enslaved. They killed it, as did Enslaved. The pairing was apt, as both play black metal but stray from the blueprint – Vreid with rock influences and Enslaved with prog leanings. CD’s are expensive here in Germany (for this album, I paid 15 euro, which is considered cheap), but […]

With Vader, you know exactly what you’re going to get – straight-up death metal. That’s indeed the case with Impressions in Blood (on Regain Records). However, don’t write it off as just another Vader album; it’s perhaps the band’s best ever, for a number of reasons. First is the drumming. “New” guy Daray has actually […]

When I heard that Terrorizer had reformed and would release a new album, I was both surprised and excited. This group was known for two things – a single album, 1989’s World Downfall (which was actually recorded after the band broke up), and its famous alumni. Guitarist Jesse Pintado moved to England and joined Napalm […]

If you order four or more CD’s at a time from Willowtip, they send you free stuff from their “shitbox.” Psychopathological came from said box, and my expectations were pretty low, given the horrible artwork (note to bands: putting fat, bloody people on album covers does NOT make people want to buy them). The logo, […]