In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked “Agent Orange” as 63rd on their list of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time”. It’s the third album from Sodom, a Thrash trio formed in 1981 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and earned them their first commercial success having been one of the first thrash metal albums to enter the
Threering are a band who are now on their fourth album “Dark Tranquillity”. The Las Vegas Nevada duo with influences from Megadeth to Pink Floyd have been around in various bands since 1990 and when we came to review the album, one song stuck out like a sore thumb. Why? Because there was something very
Released through Noise Records in 1987, “Terrible Certainty” is the third studio record from German Thrash Metallers Kreator. It was recorded in Horus Studio in Hannover Germany under the watchful eye of producer Roy Rowland while Ghost were clearly influenced by the artwork of Phil Lawvere. Guitarist, vocalist and principle songwriter Miland “Mille” Petrozza is
Rewinding the tape back to 1997 and Roadrunner Records Monte Conner taking a chance on a Nu-Metal quartet from Los Angeles California by the name of Coal Chamber. The band had been around 5 years at the point where their self-titled debut was ready and were something of a known entity having performed on the
As a whole, probably of the most underrated albums in the Metallica discography, “And Justice For All” was the first to feature bassist James Newstead after the tragic death of the legendary Cliff Burton two years earlier. Featuring the classic singles “One” and “Harvester of Sorrow”, it’s a musically progressive album with few traditional verse-chorus
Sandwiched between “A Fool’s Gold” and title track “Mind Wars” from their 1988 Speed Metal meets Thrash in a head on collision of an album “Mind Wars” is “Terminal Humor” from Holy Terror. While the band are noted for the effortless harsh to melodic vocal exchanges of frontman Keith Deen and his street level approach
As KoRn now officially have a new album on the way in the form of “The Nothing” which will arrive in 13th September and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon, Deftones), it seems like a fitting time to have a band influenced by the Bakersfield California Nu-Metallers in the dock. When we reviewed the new Motionless In White
In a series like Riff Police you’re always going to have bands in the dock who are guilty of ripping off others on a regular basis as well as bands who are simply so good that they’re going to get ripped off on a regular basis. That’s the name of the game and it comes
“Nihility”, the second album from Polish Technical Death Metallers Decapitated dropped back in 2002 with one of its highlights being single “Spheres of Madness”, although those lucky enough to be in Germany had the opportunity to pick up a digipack version with a cover of “Suffer the Children” by Napalm Death gracing it. Blending the
It’s been a not so long dark road for Cursed Earth. Since the departure of Jazmine Luders, the remainder of the Perth Australia outfit wasted precious little time in recording the follow up to 2017s “Cycles Of Grief”. In order to do so, they enlisted the help of no less that 8 heavy hitting vocalists
