Kyle

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Just a dude from Kansas who likes metal, media, beer, boobs, and cigarettes.
Musical interests:
  • Favourite genres: I'll always have a hard-on for great power metal, but all metal sub-genres have a place in my heart to a certain extent.
  • Favourite bands: Angra, Ayreon, Boris, Bal-Sagoth, Coheed & Cambria, Darkthrone, Devin Townsend + various side-projects, Kreator, X Japan and others.
  • Favourite album: Coheed & Cambria's Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
I'm human too:
  • Cool day job: Lowly convenience store worker.
  • Hobbies: Aside from playing a few instruments and writing when the mood strikes me, I'm a pretty boring and introverted guy.
  • Bragging about education/college degrees: Working towards getting my teaching degree.
Other stuff I can be proud of: My fiancee is a cosmetologist and therefore can give me professional massages. I'm set for life.
REVIEWS
PLAYLISTS

Heliosaga - Towers in the Distance
Self-released
Power Metal
81 / 100 Surprise of the month
Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
Metal Blade
Melodic Power Metal
84 / 100 Major event
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Nuclear Blast
Folk Metal
73 / 100
Age of Artemis - Overcoming Limits
MS Metal Records
Melodic Power Metal
79 / 100 Archive review
Istapp - Blekinge
Metal Blade
Melodic Black Metal (with various other influences)
83 / 100 Archive review
Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Hundred Handed / Everything Evil
Progressive Rock / Alt. Metal
86 / 100
Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
Prosthetic Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
87 / 100
Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command
Relapse
Crusty, Doomy, Blackened Thrash Metal
81 / 100
Dragon Guardian - Destiny of the Sacred Kingdom
Self-released
Symphonic Power / Speed Metal
69 / 100
Shaman - Origins
AFM Records
Melodic / Progressive Power Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Rhapsody of Fire - From Chaos to Eternity
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Power Metal
80 / 100 Major event
Heliosaga - Equinox
Self-released
Power Metal
no quote
Ryu-5150 - Yonshiki Gakuten -Dainishou-

Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal / Black Metal
83 / 100 Surprise of the month
Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
Born & Bred Records
Celtic Punk
90 / 100 Album of the month
Aura - Deliverance
Spider Rock Promotion
Progressive Rock / Metal
71 / 100
Auvernia - Afraid of Me
Self-released
Symphonic Progressive Metal (with various influences)
95 / 100 Album of the month
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
82 / 100 Major event
Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
Underground Operations/ Vagrant
Progressive Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Symfonia - In Paradisum
Avalon / Marquee
Melodic Power Metal
79 / 100
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
No Colours Records
Black Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Power Quest - Blood Alliance
Marquee / Avalon (In Japan), Napalm Records (Everywhere else)
Melodic Power Metal
91 / 100 Album of the month
Dark Moor - Ancestral Romance
Scarlet Records
Symphonic Power Metal
88 / 100
The Batallion - Head Up High
Dark Essence Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
76 / 100
Wretched - Beyond The Gate
Victory Records
Progressive Melodeath / Metalcore
85 / 100
Stratovarius - Elysium
Armoury Records
Melodic Power Metal
86 / 100 Major event
Viathyn - The Peregrine Way
Unsigned
Progressive Power / Folk Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Helloween - 7 Sinners
SPV
Power Metal
87 / 100 Major event
Impaled Nazarene - Road to the Octagon
Osmose Productions
Black / Thrash Metal
87 / 100
Cradle Of Filth - Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Peaceville Records
Symphonic Extreme Metal
64 / 100 Major event
Heljareyga - Heljareyga
Black Bards Entertainment
Progressive Power / Folk Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Sodom - In War And Pieces
Steamhammer/SPV
Thrash Metal
81 / 100 Major event
Jaldaboath - Rise of the Heraldic Beasts
Napalm / Death To Music
Medieval Folk Metal
28 / 100 Crap of the month
Angrepp - Warfare
Abyss Records
Blackened Thrash / Punk
74 / 100
Royal Jester - Night Is Young
Scarlet Records
Melodic Power Metal
78 / 100
ReinXeed - Higher
Rivel Records
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
87 / 100 Archive review
Volbeat - Beyond Hell / Above Heaven
Vertigo / Universal
Groove Metal
68 / 100
Pathfinder - Beyond The Space, Beyond The Time
Unsigned
Symphonic Power Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
Candlelight
Black Metal
90 / 100
Angra - Aqua
SPV
Melodic / Progressive Power Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal
86 / 100 Major event
Kozeljnik - Deeper The Fall
Paragon Records
Black Metal
80 / 100
Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
Wounded Love Records
Black Metal
93 / 100 Archive review
Nox Aurea - Ascending in Triumph
Napalm Records
Melodic Doom / Death
87 / 100
Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion
Napalm Records
Melodic Black Metal / Dissection Worship
79 / 100
Hacavitz - Metztli Obscura
Moribund Cult
Blackened Death Metal
82 / 100
Aquaria - Luxaeterna
Scarhorow
Symphonic Power Metal
95 / 100 Archive review
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Nuclear Blast
Bombastic, Melodic Folk Metal
94 / 100 Album of the month
Diabolic - Excisions of Exorcisms
Deathgasm Records
Death Metal
80 / 100
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Ulterium Records
Melodic Power / Speed Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Century Media
Industrial Metal
85 / 100 Archive review
SpellBlast - Horns of Silence
Metal Crusade
Melodic Power / Folk Metal
79 / 100 Archive review
Angra - Holy Land
Limb Music Products
Progressive / Melodic Power Metal
94 / 100 Archive review
Dioramic - Technicolor
Lifeforce Records
Progressive Metalcore / Post-Hardcore
80 / 100 Surprise of the month
Coheed & Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
Columbia
Alt. / Prog Rock
85 / 100
Masterplan - Time To Be King
AFM Records
Melodic / Heavy Power Metal
84 / 100
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Active Records
Technical, Progressive Death / Thrash, Jazz Fusion
CLASSIC
Wuthering Heights - Salt
Scarlet Records
Melodic, Progressive Power / Folk Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Eversin - Divina Distopia
My Kingdom Music
Progressive Power Metal
74 / 100
Nocturnal Breed - Fields of Rot
Agonia Records
Blackened Thrash / Speed Metal
90 / 100 Archive review
Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal / Hard Rock
82 / 100 Major event
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal / Hard Rock
80 / 100 Major event
Ea - Au Ellai
Solitude Productions
Epic / Atmospheric Funeral Doom
88 / 100
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Peaceville Records
Blackened Crust Punk
82 / 100
White Wizzard - Over the Top
Earache Records
Heavy Metal à la Maiden
84 / 100 Surprise of the month
The Breathing Process - Odyssey (un)Dead
Candlelight
Symphonic / Blackened Deathcore
68 / 100
Volbeat - Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil
Mascot Records
Thrash / Groove, Rockabilly
85 / 100 Archive review
Arsis - Starve For The Devil
Nuclear Blast
Technical Melodeath
80 / 100
Rage - Strings To A Web
Nuclear Blast
Power / Speed Metal
88 / 100
Symphonity - Voice From the Silence
Limb Music Products
Symphonic Power Metal
85 / 100 Archive review
Doom - Total Doom
Peaceville Records
Crust Punk
no quote Archive review
Borknagar - Universal
Indie Recordings
Progressive Folk / Post-Black Metal
86 / 100 Major event
Derdian - New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse
Magna Carta
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Misanthropy
Black Metal
CLASSIC
Wrath And Rapture - Wrath And Rapture
Tragic Hero Records
Progressive Melodeath / Power Metal / Metalcore
no quote Surprise of the month
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
I Hate Records
Atmospheric Doom Metal
83 / 100 Surprise of the month
Dark Fortress - Ylem
Century Media
Melodic / Atmospheric / Technical (??) Black Metal
91 / 100 Album of the month
Fides Inversa - Hanc Aciem Sola Retundit Virtus (The Algolagnia Divine)
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
77 / 100
Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
Dockyard1
Power Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Gamma Ray - To The Metal!
Edel
Power Metal
79 / 100 Major event
Candlemass - Nightfall
Active Records
Epic Doom / Heavy Metal
CLASSIC
Psychogenesist - Celestial Destiny
Self-released
Brutal Death / Grind
no quote Archive review
Versailles - Jubilee
Warner Music Japan
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
87 / 100
Qantice - The Cosmocinesy
Brennus Music
Symphonic / Progressive Power Metal
91 / 100 Album of the month
Mortification - Mortification
Intense Records
Death / Thrash Metal
86 / 100 Archive review
Winds Of Plague - The Great Stone War
Century Media
Symphonic Deathcore / Death Metal
69 / 100
Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
Spinefarm Records
Power Metal
84 / 100 Archive review
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Relapse Records
Technical Death / Grind
81 / 100
Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls
Ulterium Records
Epic Melodic Power Metal
98 / 100 Archive review
Blackguard - Profugus Mortis
Nuclear Blast
Folk / Melodic Death Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
X-Japan - Blue Blood
Sony Records
Power / Speed Metal, Visual Kei
90 / 100 Archive review
Evile - Infected Nations
Earache Records
Thrash Metal
50 / 100
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Noise Records
Melodic Power Metal
CLASSIC
Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
Willowtip
Extremely Technical Death Metal
81 / 100 Archive review
Motorhead - Sacrifice
Steamhammer
Heavy / Speed Metal
93 / 100 Archive review
Skyfire - Esoteric
Pivotal Rockordings
Melodic Death Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Profound Lore Records
Avant-Garde Black Metal
88 / 100
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
Metal Blade
Thrash Metal / Metalcore
73 / 100
Weverin - Serpent Light
War Flagellation Productions
Black / Death Metal
79 / 100 Surprise of the month
Enfold Darkness - Our Cursed Rapture
Sumerian Records
Blackened, Technical, Melodic Death Metal
78 / 100
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Capitol Records Inc.
Thrash Metal
CLASSIC
Revocation - Existence Is Futile
Relapse Records
Technical Thrash / Death Metal
80 / 100 Surprise of the month
Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space
Earache Records
Thrash Metal
85 / 100
Epica - Design Your Universe
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Gothic / Power Metal
89 / 100
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Prosthetic Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
89 / 100 Album of the month
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
Williams Street Records
Melodic Death Metal
86 / 100 Major event
Future Is Tomorrow - Fit To Die
Self Financed
Progressive Power metal
84 / 100 Surprise of the month
Morrigu - The Niobium Sky
Dark Balance
Melodic Doomdeath
70 / 100
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
CLASSIC
Saltatio Mortis - Wer Wind Sæt
Napalm Records
Medieval Folk / Hard Rock
64 / 100
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
86 / 100 Archive review
Melodius - Dream On
Avatarn Records
Melodic, Progressive Power Metal
69 / 100
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Earache Records
Punky Thrash Metal
72 / 100
Darktrance - Ghosts In The Shells
Solitude Productions
Depressive, Pseudo-"Experimental" Black Metal
53 / 100 Archive review
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Noise Records
Thrash Metal
95 / 100 Archive review
Vader - Necropolis
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
82 / 100 Major event
Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad
BadMoodMan
Melodic Doom Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
Roadrunner Records
Brutal Death Metal
CLASSIC
Versailles - Noble
Sherow Artist Society
Symphonic, Neoclassical Power Metal With Various Other Influences
93 / 100 Archive review
ReinXeed - The Light
Rivel Records
Melodic Power Metal
79 / 100 Archive review
Axxis - Utopia
AFM Records
Power Metal
88 / 100
Korpiklaani - Karkelo
Nuclear Blast
Folk Metal
64 / 100 Major event
Celesty - Vendetta
Spinefarm Records
Symphonic Power Metal
92 / 100
Ensiferum - From Afar
Spinefarm Records
Folk Metal
94 / 100 Album of the month
Dark Forest (Canada) - Aurora Borealis
Self-Financed
Melodic/Atmospheric Black Metal
87 / 100 Archive review
Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)
Frontiers Records
Heavy Power Metal
77 / 100 Major event
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
Equal Vision Records
Progressive Rock
93 / 100 Archive review
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
Nuclear Blast
Sci-Fi Symphonic Extreme Metal
95 / 100 Archive review
Slayer - South Of Heaven
American Recordings
Thrash Metal
CLASSIC
Demoniac - The Fire And The Wind
Osmose Productions
Power Metal With Blackened Vocals
50 / 100 Archive review
Severed Savior - Servile Insurrection
Willowtip
Technical Brutal Death Metal
89 / 100
Ravenheart - Valley Of The Damned
Twilight Zone Records
Melodic Power Metal
49 / 100
The Stone - Umro
Folter Records
Black Metal
97 / 100 Album of the year
The Stone - Magla
Folter Records
Black Metal
94 / 100 Archive review
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
Napalm Records
Pirate-Themed Power Metal
78 / 100
Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age
Nuclear Blast
Thrash/Melodic Death Metal
90 / 100 Surprise of the month