Metal Album reviews - Page 22

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The Stage

Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage 9.0

Album review

Heavy Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
The Stage asks Avenged Sevenfold's musicianship to support a larger set of questions. Artificial intelligence, human ambition and…

Lateralus

Tool

Tool - Lateralus 9.6

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Lateralus turns a repeating figure into a moving landscape. Tool can stay with a riff for a long time while changing what the…

Scream Aim Fire

Bullet for My Valentine

Bullet for My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire 7.9

Album review

Metal
Thrash Metal
Scream Aim Fire puts Bullet for My Valentine's fast guitar work in the foreground. The title track begins with a tightly organized…

Sky Burial

Inter Arma

Inter Arma - Sky Burial 8.8

Album review

Metal
Sludge Metal
Sky Burial brings Inter Arma's different sides together in music that feels large without constantly showing its scale. The band…

Aspiral

Epica

Epica - Aspiral 8.6

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Symphonic Metal
Epica start Aspiral with a song. That sounds like a fairly basic observation, but for a band that usually enjoy a proper…

Arise

Sepultura

Sepultura - Arise 8.9

Album review

Metal
Thrash Metal
Sepultura keep the attack fierce on Arise, but the arrangements reveal a band interested in more than speed. The guitars move…

C'est La Vie

Novelists

Novelists - C'est La Vie 7.9

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
C'est La Vie makes technical metalcore unusually easy to enter. Novelists keep the complicated guitar work and heavy rhythmic…

Badmotorfinger

Soundgarden

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger 9.3

Album review

Alternative Metal
Grunge
Metal
Rock
Soundgarden make being difficult sound remarkably enjoyable on Badmotorfinger. The riffs turn in unusual places, Chris Cornell…

Mezmerize

System of a Down

System of a Down - Mezmerize 8.9

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Rock
Two voices keep pulling Mezmerize in different directions. Serj Tankian's broad, theatrical delivery meets Daron Malakian's…

This Place Will Become Your Tomb

Sleep Token

Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb 8.5

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Atlantic gives This Place Will Become Your Tomb a patient, affecting entrance. The piano leaves gaps around Vessel's voice, and…

Wake Up the Wicked

Powerwolf

Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked 8.0

Album review

Metal
Power Metal
Rock
Powerwolf have found a very specific combination of organs, choirs, heavy guitars and questionable religious behaviour, and Wake…

Fiction

Dark Tranquillity

Dark Tranquillity - Fiction 9.0

Album review

Death Metal
Metal
The keyboards on Fiction make Dark Tranquillity's heaviness feel colder and more spacious. Martin Brändström places electronic…

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