November 17 - Defy Everything

Artist Name: November 17
Album Name: Defy Everything
Review Date: 04/07/2008
Star Rating: 3.9
Should you buy?: Maybe
For fans of: The Prodigy, Fear Factory, Meshuggah

Review:This band, like quite a lot of industrial metal, I find to be very much like marmite. You either are going to like it, or think it is just a lot of noise. Personally I’m [...]

Injected - Burn It Black

Artist Name: Injected
Album Name:Burn It Black
Review Date:04/07/2008
Star Rating: 4.4
Should you buy?:Yes
For fans of:Nickelback, Silverchair, Creed, Khoma

Review:This album is a solid and easily listened taste of how American alt rock really should be done. Danny Grady on vocals has a unique sound which blends perfectly with the bands style. Production from the whole band is great [...]

Apparatus - Heathen Agenda

Artist Name: Apparatus
Album Name: Heathan Agenda
Review Date: 04/07/2008
Star Rating: 4.2
Should you buy?: Yes
For fans of: Dimmu Borgir, Old Man’s Child, Emperor, Early Cradle of Filth
 

Review: This is excellent “early sounding” Black Metal. They very much remind me of an old skool Dimmu Borgir (somewhere around the “Enthrone Darkness Triumphant” era). I can’t quite work out [...]

Gizmachi - The Imbuing

Artist Name: Gizmachi
Album Name: The Imbuing
Review Date: 03/07/2008
Star Rating: 4.5
Should you buy?: Yes
For fans of: Slipknot, DownTheSun

Review: This album is simply stunning, produced by Clown from Slipknot, Gizmachi have come up with an album full of gut wrenching screams and pounding riffs. Sean Kane on lead vocals sets the pace with his painful sounding [...]

Spine - Restoration

Artist Name: Spine         
Album Name: Restoration
Review Date: 03/07/2008
Star Rating: 4
Should you buy?: Yes
For fans of: All That Remains, Drawing Circles, Stampin Ground, Biohazard
 
Review: The album that started all this, recommended to me by D. This album is a gem from a near unheard of British group. The band is musically very tight playing a mixture [...]

FR8 - In Cold Blood

Artist Name: FR8
Album Name: In Cold Blood
Review Date: 03/07/2008
Star Rating: 3.5
Should you buy?: Yes
For fans of: Diecast, Fear Factory, Spine

Review: This album suffers only from the strange choice in drumming styles, whether intentional or not. The slightly off beat, almost out of time, style is quite apparent once you first notice it. Apart from [...]