Rating: 3.5/5
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While Nephelium should ultimately devise a more unique attack with creative weaponry, this is still a deadly first strike.

Rating: 4.5/5
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This as an ideal time for Immolation to freely disseminate their material with the Scion backing, because no NYDM band this side of Suffocation is as universally respected as these trailblazers, and the kids need to recognize.

Rating: 4/5
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Buy and listen to “City of Steel” now, and get in on the ground floor with this savage Saskatoonian thrash.

Rating: 4/5
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It seems the best way to describe an album like this is “a breath of fresh air”, but considering their name and leitmotif, “a rip of milky smoke” feels more appropriate.

This music is lethal, infectious as myeloma, and already has a reserved slot on my Best of 2011 list. If your knowledge was spotty like mine, listen to their origins with previous band Usurper, and details on their recording style with producer Sanford Parker. Hear complete sneak previews of “March of the Dead” from their eponymous debut (which continues behind our conversation) and “Lonely Death” to conclude.

Rating: 2/5
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This album is, well, shit. There is scarcely anything worth listening to, and may as well have never been released.

Rating: 5/5
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At its core, Decapitated is still a brutal, in-your-face explosion of death metal, but “Carnival is Forever” offers more—a solemn nod to the past and a fierce charge forward for the reformed group. I think Vitek would be proud of his big brother.

Rating: 2.5/5
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I hate to knock a good effort, but this is what criticism is all about. “Phoenix” might fill you up, but I want more flavor. Maybe next time Hate Eternal could consider spicing up the simmering stew instead of burning the bird in the flames.

Rating: 3/5
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The album title is only half right; they’re still very much celestial, but far from complete. Becoming the Archetype have some decisions to make if they want to live up to their lofty Genesis-inspired name. Oh, as a matter of fact and not fiction, this review has 666 words. Like I said, me and coincidence have a funny relationship.

Rating: 4.5/5
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A Dragged into Sunlight listening experience is akin to watching a Coen Brothers film: you can never tell where they’ll take you next, and will surprise you every time.