UK thrashers, EVILE are currently in the midst of a whirlwind North
American tour with KREATOR and are set to join up with OVERKILL on KILLFEST!

I got some new reviews up for ya: Darkthrone, Castrofate, Abigail Williams, Book Of Black Earth, Kreator, Viking Skull, Becoming The Archetype, Sepultura, and The Bakerton Group. If you click on the “reviews” category, you can see all of em, nice and convenient-like. I’m still restructuring the site, and eventually they will also be accessible from the “Album Reviews” tab. For those curious, I had made everything pages instead of posts over the last several months … this is what I am currently correcting.  I hope I’m right this time. Hails!

  Kreator – “Hordes of Chaos” [SPV] … The German thrash legends celebrate 25 years with this ferocious 12th album, and boast the speed standard for metal in 2009. Every song present has quality guitar work which shines through the deliberately raw production and, coupled with Mille’s savage vocal performance (though lacking in variation), makes for a damn good listen.  It does sag a bit in the middle (4, 5, 6), finally regaining full traction in the final third, but this doesn’t much detract from its full force.  Notable as the first recording since 1986’s Pleasure To Kill to [...read more]