Hello everyone, I’m Alex, and I’m a Canadian metal fan. Scott has very kindly offered me a guest review, so I’ve taken him up on the offer. Today, I shall be writing an article on one of the most “metal” albums of 2008 – “An Overdose of Death“. Recorded by what essentially amounts to a one man act, Joel Grind’s Toxic Holocaust, “An Overdose of Death” is around thirty-five minutes of balls-out riffing, fearsome percussion, and harsh but intelligible vocals. It is definitely a formidable effort. Two-thousand-and-eight hailed the release of plenty of awesome metal albums. Judas Priest’s “Nostradamus”, …read more

I was offered a chance by Prosthetic Records PR to interview Light This City at the March 5th ATR show. I quickly accepted but I didn’t know anything about this band. I had seen pictures in press releases but never really gave them much thought. Well I’m glad I didn’t turn down the offer because I’m eager to meet the band behind the fury of Light This City…

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WARBRINGER Unleashes Their Ferocious Debut Album and Joins Nile For Spring Tour; New Video Makes Its Headbangers Ball Debut This Weekend.

Blabbermouth has posted an update on Metal Church from their frontman, Ronnie Munroe. Here are a few short excerpts with a link at the bottom to read the update.
“As we start recording the new songs, I want to take a moment and answer a few questions that we get over and over. The first one is when people ask if METAL CHURCH is a Christian band. “

Originally released in 2003, The Soundtrack To The Apocalypse is a must collectible for any Slayer fan. The box is kind of cool and it’s shaped and opens like an Ammo can. You get a small slayer tapestry, a mock Slayer concert pass, 4 cd’s of music and a DVD with some old school live slayer and other rare footage.
Box sets these days as I mentioned with the Megadeth Warchest, are not like the box sets of old. They are more or less compilations of some of the bands greatest hits, live tracks and rarities. For the price the Slayer …read more

Prosthetic Records sent me grief Of WAR’s American debut advanced to review. First let me give you a brief history of the band from Prosthetic Records:
Formed for the purpose of being the true heir of real thrash metal Grief OF War was started from humble beginnings in 2002 based out of Tokyo, Japan. Almost immediately after forming, the band quickly started rehearsing to develop and refine their sound through a series of pre-productions recordings. Releasing the self titled Grief Of War demo in 2003 the band began receiving positive reaction about the release from a handful of CD shops …read more

When it comes to the basics of Metal there are the staple foods of heavy metal that everyone should experience. If I was to recommend some bands the a metal newcomer that is new to the music and has had his/her interest peaked by a band or two, I would recommend the basics. The basics being like I said the “staple food” of a head banger. Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest Iron Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Danzig, etc., etc. However I would also recommend some not metal artists Like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd just to give the person …read more

A new Death Angel track off of the upcoming release from Nuclear Blast Records has been added to their Myspace page. The New record entitled “Killing Season” (how original) will be hitting shelves on February 26th. Below is a track list.
01. Lord of Hate
02. Sonic Beatdown
03. Dethroned
04. Carnival Justice
05. Buried Alive
06. Soulless

Slayer’s Undisputed Attitude came out a couple of years after Divine Intervention, an album that I still to this day don’t care for. Released on American Recordings in 1996 Undisputed Attitude wasn’t a cover album that you would expect to hear, especially from Slayer. You know Slayer always does awesome cover songs, it doesn’t matter what the song it. They could take Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achy Breacky Heart and Make it cool.