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Axel Rudi Pell - Game Of Sins
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Axel Rudi Pell - Game Of Sins
Released by: Steamhammer/SPV
Released on: January 22nd, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon We've been reviewing German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell's new albums at RSP! for a while now, so the first question is: how does this stack up against the excellent "Into The Storm" studio set and last year's sumptuous live set? Quite well actually. Pell does a very specific kind of traditional metal to a high standard. The mix of RAINBOW "Rising" era epic metal with the slicker "Heaven... -
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Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation
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Ian Jane
Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation
Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: January 15th, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon Opprobrium's first album, 1988's Serpent Temptation, gets the Relapse reissue treatment and as such is back in print for the first time in almost three decades. Re-mastered by Brad Boatright (of Sleep and Obituary fame) it sounds about as good as it probably should, which is to say it sounds like a late eighties death metal/thrash record. Don't expec... -
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
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Created by: Ian Jane
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: January 22nd, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon The first in a series of four EP's, Agoraphobic Nosebleed's Arc is a three song assault on your senses. Comprised of Pig Destroyer's Scott Hull on guitar, bass and drum programming, Jay Randall on vocals and electronics, Richard Johnson on vocals and Katherine Katz on vocals this band isn't messing around. On this particular recording, Katz takes front... -
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H.P. Lovecraft - The Hound & The Music Of Erich Zann
H.P. Lovecraft - The Hound & The Music Of Erich Zann
Released by: Cadabra Records
Released on: February 5th, 2016.
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Just in time for Howard Phillips Lovecraft's 125th birthday comes the Cadabra Records release of two of the late author's stories, The Hound and The Music Of Erich Zann, presented as a spoken word album read by Andrew Leman. For those not familiar with Leman's output, he's a partner of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical... -
Classhole - Self Titled
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Created by: Ian Jane
Classhole - Self Titled
Classhole - Self Titled
Released by: The Compound/Terror Cult
Released on: January 1st, 2016.
Purchase From Amazon Classhole hail from New Orleans and are made up of Matt Muscle on vocals, Eye Hate God's Gary Mader on guitar, Grant Tom on bass and Paul Webb on drums. This self titled album, comprised of fifteen songs, is their first and it's basically a half hour of pure, unadulterated anger. Bloodshot opens the album off, seventy-six seconds of fairly tradi... -
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Golden Earring Five Zero Concert - 12-12-15 The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
GOLDEN EARRING - The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 12/12/2015 The Five Zero. Approximately one year ago I received an intriguing email in the middle of the night. GOLDEN EARRING, a Dutch band I've loved since I was a teenager in the 80's, were having their 50th anniversary concert at the biggest stadium in Amsterdam. Within 10 minutes, despite not having a current passport or having been on a proper vacation in well over a decade, I bought a VIP ticket. And booked a trip to Amsterdam. To ... -
Yidhra - Cult Of Bathory
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Created by: Ian Jane
Yidhra - Cult Of Bathory
Yidhra- Cult Of Bathory
Released by: Black Voodoo Records
Released on: December 18th, 2015.
Purchase From Amazon Following up their 2013 full-length Hexed, L.A.'s Yidhra roll out their latest effort, a four song E.P. of heavy, riff-tastic stoner/doom/sludge. Comprised of Ted Venemann on vocals and rhythm guitar (and occasionally the theremin!), Dave Krocker on lead guitar, Thomas Harris on bass (he plays on the record but has since left the band), Erik Brasher on ... -
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Scientist - 10100II00101
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Scientist - 10100II00101
Scientist - 10100II00101
Released by: Hell Comes Home
Released on: December 11th, 2015.
Purchase From Band Camp One of the great pleasures of running a review site is when you get something unexpected sent over to write up and, going in blind, you find that it clicks. This happens all too infrequently but thankfully it was the case with the latest release from experimental Chicago based metal act, Scientist, and their new album 10100II00101. The band is comprise... -
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Sunn O))) - Kannon
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Created by: Ian Jane
Sunn O))) - Kannon
Sunn O))) - Kannon
Released by: Southern Lord
Released on: December4th, 2015.
Purchase From Amazon The latest studio album from Sunn 0))) (made up of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson), Kannon, is comprised of three tracks simply titled Kannon I, II and III. Like much of their earlier work, this latest offering (out on Southern Lord) is, as you'd expect if you're at all familiar with them, a heavy and at times transcendental affair. Clearly influenced by Buddhist... -
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Fucking Invincible - I Hate Myself And Want You To Die
Fucking Invincible - I Hate Myself And Want You To Die
Released by: Atomic Action! Records
Released on: December 18th, 2015.
Purchase From Atomic Action! Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island-based, Fucking Invincible's latest offering is the I Hate Myself And Want You To Die EP, out later this month from Atomic Action! Records. How does it sound? Well, eight songs, seven minutes. That ought to tell you something right there. Comprised of band members Alexis Mars...
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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 -
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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