Epica’s The Solace System more-than-satisfies the listener, as they continue to rise from their creative expressions. It is what sets them apart from the redundant Nightwish comparisons.
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Tag: Nuclear Blast Records
Venom Inc. – Ave Review
“Ave” is a raw piece of music that comprises authentic, honest and brutal metal songs. Venom Inc. revitalizes the late eighties spirit with giving it a contemporary expression. Horns up.
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Cellar Darling – This Is The Sound Review
For a debut album and introducing a different style, ‘This Is The Sound’ is the perfect title for it
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Rage – Seasons of the Black Review
They’ve never been the most flashy band or about strict technique- they just strap on their instruments and bang out some kick ass
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Dimmu Borgir – Forces Of The Northern Night Review
The movements between merciless aggression and jaw-dropping beauty of the orchestral sounds should make anyone gets lost in this album
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Meshuggah & The Haunted, Vicar Street, Dublin, January 18th, 2017
Meshuggah are a band that has defined a disruptive genre that is both captivating and unsettling in its very nature.
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Overkill – The Grinding Wheel Review
Mixed by the legendary Andy Sneap “The Grinding Wheel” shows that thrash is as vibrant, and as relevant, today as it was over thirty years ago, when it first emerged blinking into the sun
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Sepultura – Machine Messiah Review
It has been roughly four years since these Brazilian metallers released The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart and it seems like they tightened things up with album number 14
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Epica Live at Webster Hall, New York, NY, on December 2nd, 2016
European metal makes its way to the United States! Making its second to last stop at Webster Hall in New York City.
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In Flames – Battles Review
Battles mixes the old melodic death metal roots with the modern electronic sound that their last releases Siren Charms and Sounds of a Playground Fading incorporated.
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Meshuggah @ Playstation Theater In New York, NY, on November 3rd, 2016
A Violent Sleep of Reason” isn’t an album on which the band reinvents their sound. They keep their roots and inspiration with fine-tuning it to ultimate math-brutality.
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Suicide Silence and Whitechapel live at Gramercy Theatre, October 13th, 2016
The So Cal Death Metal titans have been on a relentless tour run and showed the fans why their high energy show, lives up to the billing.
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Crobot – Welcome to Fat City Review
Crobot’s sophomore release “Welcome To Fat City” picks right up where their 2014 debut “Something Supernatural” left off.
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