Metal Album reviews - Page 25

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The Mountain

Haken

Haken - The Mountain 9.3

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Cockroach King gives The Mountain an unmistakable personality. Its close vocal patterns, uneasy humour and sharply changing…

Vikingligr Veldi

Enslaved

Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi 8.4

Album review

Black Metal
Metal
Vikingligr Veldi immediately gives Enslaved a notably broad approach. The guitars and drums have early black metal's aggression…

Invincible Shield

Judas Priest

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 9.0

Album review

Heavy Metal
Metal
Rock
The opening keyboards on Panic Attack briefly suggest that Judas Priest might have taken a different route. Then the guitars…

Caustic

Primitive Man

Primitive Man - Caustic 8.3

Album review

Metal
Sludge Metal
Caustic turns heaviness into a setting that is difficult to escape. Primitive Man distort the guitars intensely, keep rhythms low…

Themata

Karnivool

Karnivool - Themata 8.7

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Ian Kenny gives Themata its most useful point of balance. His singing can rise above Karnivool's heavy, tightly patterned guitars…

Fatalism

Polaris

Polaris - Fatalism 8.6

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
Fatalism has a forceful guitar sound, but its most effective moments depend on what happens around that weight. Polaris gives…

Coda

Novelists

Novelists - Coda 8.1

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
A new singer can change a band quite a bit. On Coda, Camille Contreras gives Novelists a much wider range of options, and they…

Ænima

Tool

Tool - Ænima 9.4

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
The bass line in Forty Six & 2 does more than introduce a memorable song. It gives Tool a pattern they can keep turning over…

Chuck

Sum 41

Sum 41 - Chuck 8.2

Album review

Metal
Pop Punk
Punk rock
Rock
Chuck finds Sum 41 taking their heavy music seriously. The guitar parts have more force and definition, and the songs carry a…

Issues

Korn

Korn - Issues 8.6

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Nu Metal
Rock
Issues builds a room you might not want to remain inside. Short interludes, low guitar textures and Jonathan Davis's uneasy…

Even in Arcadia

Sleep Token

Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia 8.0

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Rock
Sleep Token make it fairly difficult to have a quiet opinion about them. Even in Arcadia is full of big emotions, smooth vocals…

The Strength to Dream

Warning

Warning - The Strength to Dream 7.1

Album review

Doom Metal
Metal
The Strength to Dream presents a band who have found their character but are still learning how to deliver it. Warning play slow…

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