Manilla Road at Myspace
Manilla Road’s latest release, Voyager, is a decent effort, if not quite up to the level of some of the band’s previous work. Mark Shelton’s voice isn’t what it used to be; while his nasal delivery was somewhat hard to get into before, I enjoyed it because it sounded like the Monarch [...]

Zerozonic at Myspace

Although Zerozonic feature current members of Blood Red Throne and Green Carnation they have a sound that is more all American than of the frozen north. Influenced primarily by Pantera but also Black Album era Metallica, Machine Head, Snot, Black Label Society, Godsmack and present day Soilwork, this is an album that bucks [...]

Manilla Road at Myspace
Manilla Road is one of those bands that’s been around forever, but never managed to break into the mainstream in any way despite releasing some great material. Their first album, Invasion, dates all the way back to 1980. The production is about as rough as one would expect from an album self-released [...]

Svartsot at myspace
Folk Metal is something you either love or hate. Apart the odd artist such as Agalloch or Hammers of Misfortune it’s usually exuberant, joyous and unashamedly cheesy. It’s an easy recipe to get hideously wrong, in a widdly keyboard smorgasbord and ye olde worlde theme park style charm offensive that certain acts end [...]

Stormwarrior at Myspace
I love Stormwarrior. They do a great job of producing 80’s style speed metal in a way that’s delightfully cheesy without falling into the outright faggotry embraced by Hot Topic favorites such as Dragonforce. Heading Northe is another fine effort from the band. It’s hard to believe that this is just the third [...]