Kayla

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Currently living in northern Virginia.
Musical interests:
  • Favourite genres: Death metal in all its permutations, especially melodic death (though I like pretty much every genre of metal there is).
  • Favourite bands: The Duskfall, Opeth, Bloodbath, Dark Tranquillity, Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Finntroll, Strapping Young Lad
  • All time favourite album: The Duskfall - Source
I'm human too:
  • Cool day job: Freelance writer.
  • Hobbies: Creating timeless works of art, writing and role-playing (D&D ist krieg).
  • Bragging about education/college degrees: BA from Mount Holyoke College in English and studio art.

REVIEWS
PLAYLISTS

Crotchduster - Big Fat Box Of Shit
Willowtip
Disco Grindcore
90 / 100 Album of the month
Sword Toward Self - Dissolution Mantras
Self Financed
Progressive Death Metal
no quote
Svartsot - Ravnenes Saga
Napalm Records
Folk Metal
88 / 100 Surprise of the month
TerÄsbetoni - Metallitotuus
Warner Music
Heavy Metal
72 / 100
Korpiklaani - Spirit Of The Forest
Napalm Records
Folk Metal
90 / 100 Archive review
Quietus - Genocide: Tragedy In Red (Demo)
Self Financed
Symphonic Gothic Doom Metal
no quote
Almost Saint - ...For And Against Everybody (EP)
Self Financed
Gothic Symphonic Prog Black Metal
no quote
Backwoods Payback - Backwoods Payback
Self Financed
Southern-Fried Stoner Metal
74 / 100
Vehemence - God Was Created
Metal Blade
Death Metal
89 / 100 Archive review
Cold War Survivor - Bloodworth
Self-released
Spazzy Thrashy Death Metal
73 / 100
Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
Metal Blade
Death Metal
76 / 100
Nile - Ithyphallic
Nuclear Blast
Egyptian-Influenced Death Metal
83 / 100
.Editorial - Chicks in the Pit
Metal Reviews
Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
Napalm Records
Folk Metal
95 / 100 Album of the year
Sadhara - To Hell, With Sympathy
Self-released
Melodic Death Metal
68 / 100
Combustion Spontanee - Horraura
Self Financed
Death Metal
62 / 100
Ironwood - Ironwood
Self-released
Blackened Ambient Viking Avant-Garde
no quote
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Frost Like Ashes - Tophet
PsychoAcoustiX Records
Symphonic/Amospheric Blackened Death Metal
58 / 100
Battlelore - Evernight
Napalm Records
Epic Gothic Metal
84 / 100
The Duskfall - Lifetime Supply Of Guilt
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
70 / 100
Stam1na - Stam1na
Sakara Records
Melodic Thrash Metal
84 / 100
Viikate - Unholan Urut
Long Play Music
Melancholic Metal/Rock, Finnish "Rautalanka"
87 / 100
God - Hell & Heaven
Khaotica Productions
Viking Metal
no quote
Herrschaft - Architects Of The Humanicide
Self Financed
Industrial Metal
68 / 100
Swashbuckle - Crewed By The Damned
Bald Freak Music
Pirate Metal
72 / 100
Infernum - The Curse
Sound Riot Records
Symphonic / Atmospheric Black Metal
30 / 100 Crap of the month
Tristwood - The Delphic Doctrine
Sound Riot Records
Industrial Blackened Death Metal
68 / 100
Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
Century Media
Progressive Technical Heavy Thrash Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Ljå - Til Avsky For Livet
Aftermath Music
Melodic Black Metal
74 / 100
Locust - Repent Not
Self-released
Death Metal
no quote
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Metal Blade
Viking Metal
95 / 100 Album of the month
Gwar - Beyond Hell
DRT Entertainment
Punky Heavy Metal
91 / 100 Album of the month
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
Century Media
Melodic Metal
92 / 100
Ingrained - Ashes To Dust
Self-released
Death Metal
57 / 100
Vicious Circle - The Art Of Agony
Crash Music
Technical Death Metal
79 / 100
Jungle Rot - War Zone
Crash Music
Death Metal
69 / 100
Evilwar - Bleeding In The Shades Of Baphomet
Mutilation Records
Black Metal
73 / 100
Engage - Demo 2005
Self Financed
Power Metal
no quote
The Wake - Death-a-Holic
Spikefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
67 / 100
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
Napalm Records
Folk Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Canopy - Serene Catharsis
Disconcert Music
Death Metal
91 / 100 Surprise of the month
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Century Media
Industrial Death Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Beyond Within - Eternal Pestilence
Abhore Records
Melodic Death Metal
82 / 100
Facing Death - Demo 2005
Self-released
Death Metal
no quote
End My Sorrow - A Mind Unsolved
Self-released
Gothic Metal
no quote Surprise of the month
Honey for Christ - The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light
Rundown Records
Death/Gothic Metal
52 / 100
Live Report - Vader, Kataklysm, Destruction, speed\kill/hate, Graveworm, The Absence - May 30, 2006, Jaxx Nightclub, Springfield, VA
Metal Reviews
Unatural Desaster - Violent Fate
Self-released
Thrash Metal
68 / 100
Zyklon - Disintegrate
Candlelight
Death Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
New England Metalfest - Day Three - April 30, 2006, The Worcester Palladium, Worcester, MA
Metal Festival
Live Concert
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
85 / 100
New England Metalfest - Day Two - April 29th, 2006, The Worcester Palladium, Worcester, MA
Metal Festival
Live Concert
New England Metalfest - Day One - April 28th, 2006, The Worcester Palladium, Worcester, MA
Metal Festival
Live Concert
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Metal Blade
Death Metal
96 / 100 Major event
Twelfth Gate - Threshold Of Revelation
Season Of Mist
Progressive Heavy/Power
86 / 100
One Man Army And The Undead Quartet - 21st Century Killing Machine
Nuclear Blast
Groovy Gothenthrash
79 / 100
Norther - Till Death Unites Us
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
69 / 100
Ensiferum - Dragonheads (EP)
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Viking Metal
no quote
Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade
Napalm Records
Blackened Viking Metal
88 / 100
Gorefest - La Muerte
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
68 / 100
Darkane - Layers Of Lies
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
84 / 100
The Berzerker - World Of Lies
Earache Records
Brutal Industrial Death Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Current playlist All Time Albums