Month: September 2020

Savage Master, Myth, Magic and Steel, has a great sound. The primary vocals are by female singer Stacey Savage (Peak). She’s got the husky hard voice like the best of female metal singers. Fits well with the songs. There are not a lot of female vocalists in the genre, so it always stands out and… Read more Savage Master – Myth, Magic And Steel

Whipstriker, Merciless Artillery, is the second album I’ve bought from this Brazilian Speed Metal band. It’s a got a great fast sound of hard driving drums, excited riffs, and loud vocals. Great music to play games to or just headbang to. Great cover as well. Over the top and brutal, just like the music. Merciless… Read more Whipstriker – Merciless Artillery

This is a dire cover album image and Cryptual, The Tombs of Misery, is dark and horror filled music that fits right in with the feeling that the album artwork conveys. This isn’t pleasant music. It’s music that embraces and even celebrates the worst of of what we can expect in life. It’s about pain… Read more Cryptual – The Tombs of Misery

This cover looks like an awesome coloring book page. Speedwolf, Ride With Death, is fast, aggressive Thrash Metal about wolves riding motorcycles down the highway at night with Death as their co-pilot. Great songs, with heavy riffs and angry vocals. I was thinking that I heard some Motorhead in the songs and when I went… Read more Speedwolf – Ride With Death

Night Cobra, In Praise of the Shadow, is just a great tribute to the old school of Heavy Metal. Released just last month, with a full LP coming out soon, if I understand correctly. The songs are fun thrashy Metal. Fast, not too long and rocks with an old school grandeur. The album cover looks… Read more Night Cobra – In Praise of the Shadow

Fecundation, Morte Cerebral, which I think means brain dead, is so dark, primal, fast, hard, Death Metal. The drums pound into you relentlessly, the riffs are fast and unrelenting and the vocals are spoken by some being from a hell dimension. This is overwhelming music, but satisfying if you can survive it. I bought the… Read more Fecundation – Morte Cerebral

Deceased, The 13 Frightened Souls, is an old EP they released as a follow up to their debut album. This thrashy Death metal band has a great horror themed fast paced sound. The early albums are raw but enthusiastic, but they polish up and get really good later.

Cryptic Shift, Beyond the Celestial Realms, is another Astrodeath Metal album from the same group that I liked in an earlier post. This one was released in 2016 and shows a lot of the same type of ideas they would really perfect with Visitations from Enceladus. Its a great hard and fast album that combines… Read more Cryptic Shift – Beyond the Celestial Realms

Iron Age guitarist Wade Allison passed away today, the second Texas Metal artist to die in as many months, following Riley Gale of Power Trip. It’s been a tough year in a lot of ways, but a tough year for Texas Metal as well. I’m listening to Iron Age, The Sleeping Eye, tonight in tribute.… Read more Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye

Mortor, Shoot’em Up, is some great Thrash/Death Metal from Québec. The songs are all catchy, with hard riffs and strong vocals. The album’s about eight years old, but has the feel of late 80s Thrash. It’s really a great mixture of Thrash aesthetics mixed with Death heaviness.