Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 44: Tormentor – Seventh Day of Doom (1987)
Hungarian band Tormentor is widely (and justly) recognized as a major influence on the second wave black metal bands. Partly […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece
Masterpieces of the metal sort.
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 43: Death – Leprosy (1988)
I’ve been going around for a while saying that I’m really not all that into death metal anymore. And, I […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 42: Forgotten Woods – Sjel av Natten (1995)
Within the fetid halls of black metal, there exists a genre known as DSBM (not to be confused with NSBM, […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 41: Robespierre – Die You Heathen, Die! (1983)
Certain metalheads, myself included, consider the quest to find tr00ly KVLT metal to be one the most important tasks a […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 40: Sepultura – Morbid Visions (1986)
I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to Sepultura. Sure, I own 4 of their albums (6 before […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 39: Zemial – Necrolatry
Everyone knows the Greek black metal big 3 (Varathron, Rotting Christ and Necromantia), but for some reason Zemial never seems […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 38: Thor – Only the Strong
Bodybuilding champion, actor, director, screenwriter, rock opera composer, historian, singer with the voice of an angel, and vigorous yet attentive […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 37: Immolation – Failures for Gods
Immolation was always kind of an oddball band. They were somewhere in between brutal death metal and a more melodic […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 36: Graveland – Carpathian Wolves
National Socialist Black Metal is a touchy subject, even (especially) among black metal fans. And while I fall into the […]
Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 35: Sodom – In the Sign of Evil
Sodom, even more so than Kreator (covered here a few months ago), was probably the most brutal of the early […]