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World War IX - Phoning It In (Emergency Breakthru Records) Album Review
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... -
Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water (AFM Records) Album Review
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 ... -
U.D.O. - Live In Bulgaria 2020 Pandemic Survival Show (AFM Records) Album Review
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... -
Wizard - Metal In My Head
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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... -
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Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations 2020 (Silver Lining Music) Album Review
Released by: Silver Lining Music
Released on: November 27th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon Re-recordings by bands of their classic albums/songs has always been a dicey prospect at best. And yet it remains a perennial move for many bands in the hard rock and metal world. It's right up there with the other classic lazy move - the covers album. The reasoning behind these things tends to primarily focus on cold cash - with many acts having lost control of their vintage catalo... -
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains (Frontiers Music) Album Review & Video
Released by: October 9th, 2020.
Released on: Frontiers Music
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19 long years after “Curse Of The Hidden Mirrorâ€, Bí–C have returned with a new studio album. Is it any good? Does it capture the mysticism and quirky grandeur of the classic era? Can the twin lynchpins of founders guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma†Roeser and Eric Bloom deliver a quality product? You bet your ass they can. We've been bl... -
Hexx - Entangled In Sin (High Roller Records) Album Review
Released by: High Roller Records
Released on: September 25th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon Dormant since 1991's “Morbid Realityâ€, San Francisco's HEXX , thanks to German Metal maestros High Roller, staged a slightly disjointed comeback in 2017 with the “Wrath Of The Reaper†album. HEXX's history was what worked against them. The band began life in the glorious 1980's Bay Area scene that spawned the likes of the legendary Paul Baloff fronted EXODUS and ... -
in MusicNightmare - Aeternam (AFM Records) Album Review
Released by: AFM Records
Released on: October 2nd, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon Once compatriots of classic French Metal stalwarts acts like TRUST, ADX, SORTILEGE and H-BOMB, NIGHTMARE have a long and storied history. After releasing two well-regarded underground platters in the mid 80's on legendary British cult label Ebony in “Waiting For The Twilight†and “Power of The Universe†the band essentially broke up barring sporadic reformations until comin... -
Primitive Man - Immersion (Relapse Records) Album Review
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: August 14th, 2020
Purchase From Amazon The latest full-length album from Denver, Colorado's Primitive Man, who have been around since 2012 and bill themselves as “Denver's first and only Death Sludge band,†is 2020's Immersion, a six track slab of music that can accurately be described as heavy to the point of distress. Comprised of Ethan Lee McCarthy on vocals and guitar, Joe Linden on drums and Jonathan Campos on b... -
Necrot - Mortal
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Released by: Tankcrimes
Released on: August 28th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon The Bay Area's NECROT aren't really here to hold your Metal hand or fire up your Death Metal intellect. They aren't particularly technical (though they are excellent players) or cutting edge. What they ARE here to do is pummel you into submission. Following on from the band's well-received “Blood Offerings†debut of 2017, NECROT have expanded their repertoire a little bit on â... -
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in MusicZombi 2020 (Relapse Records) Album Review
Released by: Relapse Records
Released on: July 17th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon Pennsylvania's instrumental powerhouse duo ZOMBI return after five years with an excellent new album that combines their classic sound with a couple of new twists. Drummer A.E. Paterra and multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore (who handles synthesizers, guitar and bass) get down to business pretty quickly with opener “Breakthrough & Conquer†which is a classic example of their core s... -
U.D.O. - We Are One
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Released by: AFM Records
Released on: July 31st, 2020.
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Following on from 2018's rock solid but hardly adventurous “Steelfactory†release, German Metal Colonel Udo Dirkschneider cooled his heels for a while. Now he's back - with his weirdest project yet. But Udo getting kooky isn't really new. We Are One is a continuation of a tangent the man started exploring a few years back when he partnered with the German Navy Orches... -
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in MusicCanedy - Warrior (Sleaszy Rider Records) Album Review
Released by: Sleaszy Rider Records
Released on: May 8th, 2020 (digital)/August 7th, 2020 (CD & Vinyl).
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Carl Canedy (who were interviewed a year ago here) is best known as the drummer for The Rods (and a onetime drummer for Manowar) as well as a producer of metal acts like Overkill, Anthrax, Exciter and Blue Cheer but he's got a solo project going these days in the form of Canedy. Made up of Mike Santarsiero on lead vocals,... -
Thecodontion - Supercontinent (I, Voidhanger Records/Repose Records) Album Review
Released by: I, Voidhanger Records/Repose Records
Released on: June 26th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon or Bandcamp Thecodontion were founded in Rome, Italy in 2016 by G.E.F. (vocals) and G.D. (bass) and are one of those rare metal bands that do not use guitars in their music. Instead, they use “two finger-picked, distorted basses (with a third one for solos), vocals, and drums†and, as such, they have a very unique sound, one that defies the typical expectation... -
Witch Taint - Sons Of Midwestern Darkness (Tee Pee Records) Album Review
Released by: Tee Pee Records
Released on: April 10th, 2020.
Year: 2020
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What is a Witch Taint? Well, this two piece -the most evil, sinister, extreme and KVLT band from Indiana ever - might be Dave Hill and Phil Costello but it's way more fun to pretend that the band is made up of Lance The King Of Black Metal And About 500 Things Most People Can't Handle and his right hand man Matthias Backwards, because that makes them sound...
