Posts Tagged ‘Austrian Death Machine’
7 Review Shorts
Time to catch up on some reviews…the lazy way.
Children Of Bodom – Skeletons In The Closet
Some bands do great cover songs while others just completely shit all over the original but not in a good way. I’m sure you’ve heard most of Children Of Bodom’s cover songs at least one time or another. Skeletons’ does a mixture of both. There are a few that are really cool but the others just don’t sound right with COB covering them and they end up sounding terrible. Is it a buyer? Only if you’re a hardcore fan that wants all of their albums; otherwise I would pass on this one.
Shadows Fall – Retribution
Solid effort from the Massholes. Retribution won’t blow you out of the water but I think it’s much better than Threads of Life but very far from The Art Of Balance. Is it a buyer? I would say so. Would I rush out to get is on a day that other great albums came out on? Probably not.
The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
While The Black Dahlia Murder doesn’t try to stray from what works for them, they infuse an amazing guitar player in Ryan Knight, formerly of Arsis. Ryan brings the speed, technicality and melody that TBDM requires to be able to keep from being like so many other tech-death bands. Deflorate is full on, balls to the wall metal satisfaction at every turn. Is it a buyer? Hell yeah.
New Releases This Week 11/25/08
This week bears releases of just about every Motley Crue release worth listening to on vinyl, even Saints Of Los Angeles. I should probably keep that out of the category of “worth listening to” as I still stand my ground and say…that it blows. You can buy them individually as opposed to dropping $500 on the box set. Sunday saw the release of Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy. Other than that here are some of the other releases out this week of November 25th. Here it is broken down without the Amazon.com ads and just in simple list form.
- Austrian Death Machine: A Very Brutal Christmas
- Arch Enemy: Tyrants Of The Rising Sun DVD
- Cynic: Traced In Air
- Architect: Ghost Of The Salt Water Machines
- Lacuna Coil: Visual Karma DVD
- Turisas: A Finnish Summer With Turisas DVD
- Becoming The Archetype: Dichotomy
- Demon Hunter: 45 Days DVD/CD
- Metallica: The Black Album LPs
- Chaoswave: Dead Eye Dreaming
- Worldwide Metal Box Set (Can be ordered as an import from Amazon.com)
- Motley Crue: Journals Of The Damned Leather-Bound Vinyl Box Set
- The Sword: Box Set (Really only Age Of Winters and Gods Of the Earth 2 disc set)
- Hope For The Dying: Hope For The Dying
- Nevermore: The Year Of The Voyager Live DVD/CD/Digital Download
- Kivimetsan Druidi: Shadowheart
- Duff McKagan’s Loaded: Wasted Heart Ep 12″ Red Vinyl
