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Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry
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Ian Jane
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: February 3rd, 2017.
Purchase From Amazon Iron Reagan's third full length and their second for Relapse follows their up 2012's Tyranny Of Will once again combining politics, b-movie references, trash culture and thrash culture into a blistering collection of thrash/hardcore crossover bliss. Made up of Tony Foresta (better known as Tony Waste from Municipal Waste) on vocals, Phill Hall (also ... -
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Roland Topor - No Ordinary Fairy
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Created by: Ian Jane
Roland Topor - No Ordinary Fairy
Roland Topor - No Ordinary Fairy
Released by: Cadabra Records
Released on: January 13th, 2017.
Purchase From Amazon This is a weird record. On this recording, which is limited to “a run of 300 copies on 150-gram opaque purple vinyl with a deluxe tip-on jacket, liner notes by Heidi Lovejoy, and art by Roland Topor himself†features none other than Laurence Harvey reading the writings of French born surrealist Topor (the same Topor who wrote the book of... -
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Grave Digger - Healed By Metal
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Grave Digger - Healed By Metal
Released by: Napalm Records
Released on: January 13th, 2017.
Purchase From Amazon Moving on from their last release of re-recordings, schnitzel and sauerkraut metallers GRAVE DIGGER deliver another platter of awesomely basic German metal. You know that middle section of ACCEPT's "Balls To The Wall" when the whole riff slows to a bulldozing crushing crawl and lead vocalist Udo growls about "plugging a bomb up everyone's ass"? That's pretty much the entire raisons d'í... -
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Uniform Choice - Screaming For Change
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Created by: Ian Jane
Uniform Choice - Screaming For Change
Uniform Choice - Screaming For Change
Released by: Southern Lord Records
Released on: January 20th, 2017.
Purchase From Amazon Screaming For Change, the 1986 debut album from Orange County's Uniform Choice, gets the deluxe reissue treatment from Southern Lord who have gone back to the original tapes to remaster this fourteen track classic. Featuring Patrick Dubar on vocals, Victor Maynez on guitar, Dave Mellow on bass and Patrick Longrie behind the drums, thes... -
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Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive
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Created by: Ian Jane
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive
Released by: Season Of Mist
Released on: December 15th, 2016.
Purchase From Mayhem Currently made up of Attila on vocals, Necrobutcher on bass, Teloch and Ghul on guitar and the mighty Hellhammer on drums, Norway's Mayhem are about as iconic as it gets when it comes to black metal. The band are celebrating the release of their 1994 debut album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas not just with a tour that will see them playing acr... -
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Excel - The Joke's On You
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Created by: Ian Jane
Excel - The Joke's On You
Excel - The Joke's On You
Released by: Southern Lord Records
Released on: November 18th, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon Originally released by Caroline Records in 1989 and produced by Randy Burns, Excel's second album lives again thanks to this remastered edition being released by Southern Lord. Made up of Dan Clements on vocals, Adam Siegel on guitar, Shaun Ross on bass and Greg Saenz drums, this southern California based four-piece do crossover right. Blending sk... -
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Bastard Noise / Sickness - Death's Door
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Created by: Ian Jane
Bastard Noise / Sickness - Death's Door
Bastard Noise / Sickness - Death's Door
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: November 11th, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon Noise acts Bastard Noise and Sickness collaborate on this new two track single from Relapse Records. Mellow this most certainly is not, but those who dig on noise and drone should definitely appreciate the texture and 'wall of sound' techniques employed by both acts on this release. Bastard Noise is Eric Wood and Sickness is Chris Goudreau. ... -
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Superjoint - Caught Up In The Gears Of Application
Superjoint - Caught Up In The Gears Of Application
Released by: Housecore
Released on: November 11th, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon Superjoint Ritual broke up in 2004 but last year frontman Phil Anselmo brought it back, this time without the Ritual attached to the name. This time around Anselmo is playing with founding members Jimmy Bower on guitar and Kevin Bond on bass with new recruits José “Blue†Gonzalez on drums and Stephen Taylor on bass. A few... -
Man From Ravcon, The - Strange Universe
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Created by: Ian Jane
Man From Ravcon, The - Strange Universe
Man From Ravcon, The - Strange Universe
Released by: Ravcon Records
Released on: November 11th, 2016.
Purchase From CD Baby Mike 'The Man From Ravcon' Brown's latest album is the aptly titled Strange Universe, another entry in the multi-instrumentalist's ever expanding and increasingly hard to categorize catalogue. Brown plays everything on his records all by himself, and leans towards heavy doses of prog and psych with hefty dollops of surf guitar thrown into... -
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Sodom - Decision Day
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Created by: Horace Cordier
Sodom - Decision Day
Released by: SPV/Steamhammer
Released on: August 26th, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon In the pocket. German thrashers SODOM, much like the legendary MOTí–RHEAD before the death of figurehead Lemmy late last year, have been in a bit of a sweet spot for the last ten years. Ever since their eponymous 2006 release, this Kraut collective has been delivering extremely consistent CDs. Early SODOM was the gnarliest and most untamed of beasts. A brilliant mixture of unbridled in... -
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by Ian Jane
Released by: Sony Music
Released on: December 9th, 2003.
Director: Wayne Isham
Cast: Judas Priest
Year: 1986
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Judas Priest - Electric Eye – Movie Review:
The Judas Priest – Electric Eye DVD from Sony Music/BMG captures the band at the height of their popularity and was released just in time for what was, at the time, the upcoming reunion tour which saw original vocalist Rob Halford reuniting with the band...07-17-2022, 05:06 PM -
by Ian Jane
World War IX - Phoning It In (Emergency Breakthru Records) Album Review
Released by: Emergency Breakthru
Released on: May, 2021.
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It's been a while, but NYC's own World War IX are back, this time with a new 10†EP and a new lead vocalist, following up 2015's If One Of These Bottles Should Happen To Fall EP.! The skinny, smelly looking flexible guy named Filthy Phill is gone, replaced by new guy Johnny Celentano...06-01-2021, 07:11 PM -
Released by: AFM Records
Released on: June 4th, 2021.
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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM have been at this since the early 1980s and are probably best remembered for giving bassist Jason Newstead to METALLICA. Their first two records - Doomsday For The Deceiver and No Place For Disgrace are considered classics of the thrash metal genre but like many other acts that started strong on an indie label and wound up on a major label during the thrash signing boom ...05-25-2021, 10:02 AM -
Released by: AFM Records
Released on: March 19th, 2021.
Purchase From Amazon Recorded in Bulgaria - where life is cheap! Hot on the heels of his utterly bizarre We Are One collaboration (also reviewed here at RSP!), everyone's favorite Teutonic Metal ogre Herr Udo Dirkschneider returns with that ubiquitous staple - the live album. For a while now it has been common practice for legacy acts, or pretty much any band with a history over 20 years long, to release a live album...03-05-2021, 01:04 AM -
Released by: Massacre Records Released on: February 12, 2021. Purchase From Amazon “Metal in my head... EXPLODING!†Germany's WIZARD have been at this since 1991 and at this point have pretty much nailed this “true metal†thing down to a science. This, the band's 12th full length offers very little in the way of musical surprises and appears to be purposefully designed that way. WIZARD are catering to a very specific demographic - aficionados of gloriously irony-free...01-28-2021, 10:19 AM
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by Ian Jane
Released by: Skydog Records/MVD
Released on: December 18th, 2020.
Year: Various
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Iggy And The Stooges - From K.O. To Chaos Review: This eight disc boxed set, made up of seven CDs and one DVD, gathers together all of the Iggy And The Stooges releases that have been released over the years from France's Skydog Records, including the infamous Metallic KO album from 1976 and the two complete shows that that album was culled from, in ad...12-30-2020, 02:21 PM