Metal Reviews

Mercenary - Architect Of Lies *with bonus track
Draconian - Turning Season Within

Clint

Hatefiles has a few decent tunes, but it's a typical odds-n-sods album. Nothing special, good to buy for a few bucks. Concrete is pretty sweet, but it's basically a demo.

My most recent:

Aerosmith - The Other Side (CD Single w/Non-LP Tracks) **
Arch Enemy - Revolution Begins (EP)
Avalanch - Mother Earth ***
Battleroar - Battleroar
Black Crowes, The - Amorica (w/Bonus Tracks) **
Black Crowes, The - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion **
Brand New Sin - Tequila
Caliban - Vent
Caputo, Keith - A Fondness For Hometown Scars
Conjure One - Conjure One
Dark Lotus - The Opaque Brotherhood
Dark Tranquillity - Focus Shift (EP)
DGAF - DGAF
Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice
Great White - Sail Away (2CD) **
Heart - Magazine
In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose (CD/DVD)
Ivanhoe - Symbols Of Time
Juliette & The Licks - Four On The Floor
Kottonmouth Kings - Kottonmouth Xperience Vol. 2 (CD/DVD)
Lili Haydn - Place Between Places
Mattson - Another Dimension ***
Mattson - Powergames ***
Meat Puppets - Backwater (CD Single w/Non-LP Tracks) **
Meat Puppets - Golden Lies **
Midnattsol - Nordlys (w/Bonus Track)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The - More Noise & Other Disturbances **
Moonlyght - Shining (Limited to 1,000)
Mudvayne - Lost And Found (CD/DVD) **
O.A.R. - Risen **
Outlaw Blood - Outlaw Blood **
Perry, Joe - Joe Perry
Powersurge - Powersurge **
Pretty Things, The - Freeway Madness (Reissue w/Bonus Tracks)
Prong - Live At CBGBs (Promo EP)
Quireboys - From Tooting To Barking
Ratt - Out Of The Cellar
Samael - Blood Ritual
Samael - Worship Him
Simon Says - Tardigrade
Stolt, Roine - The Flower King
Sword, The - Gods Of The Earth
Toe Tag - Toe Tag (7" EP)
Tristan Prettyman - Hello
Various Artists - Church Of The Devil: Tribute To King Diamond *
Various Artists - Give 'Em The Boot III **
Various Artists - Labour Of Love: In Honour Of Life (w/Bonus Tracks) ***
Winters Bane - Redivivus ***

** Under $4 from SwapaCD.com.
*** $5 from CD Baby.

It never quite seems like a lot when this shit is coming in daily. Add it all up after a week or two and it's pretty ridiculous. I've bought—or somehow acquired—393 albums so far in 2008.

just bought:
anthrax - alive II cd
anthrax - alive II dvd
sodom -persecution mania

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

A classic

A true Classic

Guardians of Time - Machines of mental design
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer

Thoughts? Have heard none of it before.

... love this CD, and I actually listened to it a few days ago.

Clint

The latest:

Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle **
Bad Religion - Infected (Double CD Single w/Non-LP Tracks)
Dominici - 03: A Trilogy - Part 3
Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life
Endino's Earthworm - Endino's Earthworm ***
In Flames - The Mirror's Truth (EP)
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies ***
Korn - Live & Rare ***
Mechanical Organic - Disrepair Part One - Permafrost Dreams
Mindgrinder - Manthink/Bob (7" EP) (122 out of 1,000)
Miss Crazy - II (1,050 out of 2,000)
Ninetail - The Process Of Conversion
P.O.D. - Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years **
Reagon, Toshi - Have You Heard ***
Skin Yard - 1,000 Smiling Knuckles
Slave To The System - Slave To The System (Reissue w/Bonus Track) ***
Thought Industry - Outer Space Is Just A Martini Away
Twilight Ophera - Midnight Horror
Various Artists - The Hard & The Heavy - Volume One (2CD) ***
Warrior Soul - Chill Pill ***
Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad (2CD)
Winter's Verge - Eternal Damnation

** Under $4 from SwapaCD.com.
*** $2 from a used bin in Boston.

Such a good album.

judas priest - turbo
judas priest - british steel

Which is the better? never heard any of them

Never cared for British Steel. Priest have done much better. Can't comment on Turbo.

Definitely solid. I still think Howard sounds too processed, though. And some of the intros and interludes on the album are so fruity it amazes me that it's actually Killswitch I'm listening to.

Wish it was the reissue I'd gotten, though.

Tell us what you think.

You never told us what you thought of Atlantis Rising, either Ken...

I think British Steel is better.

Turbo is a hit and miss for some I like it not typical JP but some songs are catchy like Turbo Lover.

I've listened to it a few times and I think it's great. The interludes will annoy people, but they fit when you really sit down and get into the album.

It's a different sort of style, as I pointed out in my review of the last album. The guitar sounds like a heavily distorted bass played through a guitar amp. But I still love the Pink Floyd-styled vocals and harmonies. I don't know. It'll take a good number of spins to digest, but I still listen to the first album a lot.

I think this is a love/hate kind of band. You get it or you don't.

What do you think of it?

They're not even listed on Metal Archives.... I wonder why...