This Week's New reviews
Bruce Springsteen Month
Xystus - Equilibrio
Best and Worst CDs of 2008
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart: 2008's Most Disappointing Albums
Closer - A Darker Kind of Salvation
Kottonmouth Kings - The Green Album (3 stars)
Whitechapel - This is Exile
Jan 2009
Bruce Springsteen Month
Xystus - Equilibrio
Dec 2008
Ian Christe Interview: Metal's Reigning Journalist and Van Halen Guru
Closer - A Darker Kind of Salvation
Deadbird - Twilight Ritual
Roger (Ebert) and Me
Michael Franti & Spearhead: A Triumphant Tonic For Tragic Souls
Guitar Red - Lightnin' in a Bottle (5 stars)
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (5 stars)
Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses (Rock Reads)
Kottonmouth Kings - The Green Album (3 stars)
Lords - F**k All Ya'll Motherf**kers (4 stars)
Lord Belial - The Black Curse
Mike Mangione - Tenebrae (4.5 stars)
Jon McLaughlin - OK Now (4 stars)
Ogre - Plague of the Planet (5 stars)
Panzer Division Marduk
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors (4 stars)
W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
Satan's Host - Burning the Born Again
Slash
Tribe After Tribe - M.O.A.B. (3 stars)
UB40 Greatest Hits (4.5 stars)
The Wedding - The Sound the Steel (4 stars)
Whitechapel - This is Exile
13 Questions With Andrew Murphy of Smooch Records
Quick Flicks: Mushroomhead- Black Metal Satanica- Earache My Eye
Nov 2008
AC/DC Live (5 stars)
AC/DC: For Those About To Rock... We Reward You
Baboon Rising - Friendly Agrarian Tower
Beyonce - I Am... Sasha Fierce (1.5 stars)
Bigelf - Cheat the Gallows
Cheap Trick - Budokan! (5 stars)
The Cure - 4:13 Dream (3.5 stars)
The Dears - Missiles (4 stars)
Scorsese by Ebert
My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem (3 stars)
False Icons - GodComplex (2 stars)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (4.5 stars)
Impiety - Dominator
In this Moment - The Dream (4 stars)
KISS - Ikons Box Set (3 stars)
Marduk - Infernal Eternal
Nachtmystium and Wolves in the Throne Room Live
The New Up - Broken Machine EP (4 stars)
The Rasmus - Black Roses (5 stars)
Semi Precious Weapons - We Love You (5 stars)
Senses Fail - Life is Not a Waiting Room (3 stars)
Sotajumala - Teloitus
Springsteen's Fumble
Paul Stanley - One Live KISS DVD (3.5 stars)
Two Cow Garage - Speaking in Cursive (5 stars)
Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper (3 stars)
Passport: Made in Iceland, Juana Molina, David Newman and Eliane Elias
We Wish you a Metal XMas and a Head Banging New Year (5 stars)
Nachtmystium and Wolves in the Throne Room Live
Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows (4.5 stars)
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Oct 2008
Rock Band Tour: The Cab, the Plain White T’s, Dashboard Confessional and Panic At The Disco
EPs: Two Sheds, Fiance and Johnny Flynn
The 88 - Not Only... But Also (4 stars)
AC/DC - Black Ice (4.5 stars)
Backtrack: Let There Be Rock (5 stars)
MorleyView: Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws (5 stars)
The Faint - Fasciinatiion (3.5 stars)
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (4.5 stars)
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
James Live
Machinery - The Passing
Magica - Hereafter
Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura And Beyond (3 stars)
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - Fabled City (2.5 stars)
MorleyView: My Ruin
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (4.5 stars)
The Poison Written - Devices
Red I Flight - The Years
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason (3.5 stars)
Saint Deamon - In Shadows Lost from the Brave
Sieges Even - Playgrounds
Suidakra - Thirteen Years of Celtic Wartunes
Tina Turner Rolling and Rocking
Zero Hour Interview
Sep 2008
Metal Masters Tour: Testament, Motorhead, Heaven & Hell and Judas Priest (5 stars)
Quick Flicks: Delbert McClinton, Cat Stevens, John Martyn, Bill Monroe and Waking The Witch
MorleyView: Carmine Appice
Blag'ard - Bobcat (4 stars)
Bourgeois Gypsies - Faulty Fairytales (4 stars)
Bum Kon Interview
Marc Broussard Keeps Fans Coming Back (5 stars)
Johnny Cash Remixed (3 stars)
Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine
Neil Diamond - Live 1976: The Thank You Australia Concert (4 stars)
Michael Franti and Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers (4.5 stars)
The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
Hydrogyn - Deadly Passions (3.5 stars)
James - Hey Ma (Album of the Year) (5 stars)
Marduk - Nightwing
Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Terminal Romance (4 stars)
Metallica - Death Magnetic: Tag Team Review Pt II (4.5 stars)
Metallica - Death Magnetic: Tag Team Review Pt I
Motorhead - Motorizer
My Ruin - Throat Full of Heart (Artist of the Month)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: The Poison Written - Devices
MorleyView: Soda X
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Harley Davidson's 105th Birthday Bash
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (4 stars)
Ufomammut - Idolum
Passport: Vol 2 - Chiwoniso, Chambao, Dennis Brown, Cutty Ranks and Appart
Passport: Vol 1 - Kasai Allstars, Skatalites, Acoustic Arabia and more
The Verve - Forth (4 stars)
Butch Walker: The Phoenix
Yell County - A Real Fine Hole (3 stars)
Aug 2008
Mayhem Fest
Sixteen Days in China: A Documentary by Martin Atkins (4 stars)
AC/DC's Latest Dirty Deeds Not Dirt Cheap
Bassinvaders - Hellbassbeaters
Buffalo Killers - Let It Ride (4 stars)
Burzum Anthology
Candlebox - Into the Sun (2 stars)
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider (4 stars)
Dantesco - Pagano
Darker My Love - 2(artist of the month) (4.5 stars)
Jesse James Dupree - Rev it Up and Go-Go
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things (4 stars)
Earshot - The Silver Lining (3.5 stars)
Elevation - Strangelove (3 stars)
Eminence - The God of All Mistakes
Erasure - Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD (4 stars)
Gallhammer - III Innocence
Gorgoroth - True Norwegian Black Metal: Live in Grieghallen
Head On Collision - Ritual Sacrifice
Idolize Yourself: The Very Best of Billy Idol (3 stars)
Ihsahn - AngL
Imagika - Feast for the Hated
Lamb of God - Walk with Me in Hell DVD
Sharon Little - Perfect Time For A Breakdown (4 stars)
The Man from the Moon - Rocket Attack
Marduk - Live in Germania
Marduk - Obedience
Dave Matthews Band: In Memory of LeRoi Moore (5 stars)
John Mellencamp: No American Fool
Moneen - It All Started With A Red Stripe DVD (3.5 stars)
Negativland - Thigmotactic (2.5 stars)
October File - Holy Armour from the Jaws of God
Opeth - Watershed
Overkill - The Years of Decay
The Pet Ghost Project - Cheer Up, It's Raining (4 stars)
The Pineapple Express
Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags - All the Great Aviators Agree (4.5 stars)
Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten (4.5 stars)
Sweet Cobra - Forever
The Sword - Gods of the Earth
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Three Doors Down, Staind, Hinder and Jet Black Stare Live
IndieView: Victor Bravo
July 2008
4th25 - Soldier Music (4.5 stars)
Battleroar - To Death and Beyond
Black Francis - Svn Fngrs (3 stars)
Bon Jovi: Whole Lot of Leavin'
Boris Live
Bum Kon - Drunken Sex Sucks (4 stars)
Boris - Smile(artist of the month) (5 stars)
Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
Kenny Chesney Poets and Pirates Tour
Dropkick Murphys (with Mighty Mighty Bosstones) Live
Engel - Absolute Design
From Autumn to Ashes - Live at Looney Tunes (2.5 stars)
Funk Brothers - Live in Orlando (3 stars)
Judas Priest - Nostradamus (3 stars)
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA (4 stars)
Light Yourself on Fire - Intimacy
The Melvins - Nude with Boots (3.5 stars)
George Michael Live
Midnight To Twelve (4 stars)
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles (2.5 stars)
Mountain Mirrors - Dreadnought (5 stars)
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
Nachtmystium Interview
Jay Nash - The Things You Think You Need (3.5 stars)
The Ocean - Precambrian: Protezoic
The Ocean - Precambrian: Hadean/Archaean
The Oswald Effect - Love & Sabotage (3.5 stars)
Tom Petty Live (5 stars)
Portishead - Third (5 stars)
Sins of Omission - Flesh on Your Bones
Steel Attack - Carpe DiEnd
Street Dogs - State of Grace (3.5 stars)
Taint - Secrets and Lies
Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
Keith Urban Live
Quick Flicks: Joe Strummer, The Clash, Attitude For Destruction, The Deadboys
Hot In The City: Hot in the City: Opiate For The Masses, Greeley Estates, Vayden, The Maine and more
Quick Flicks: Solomon Burke, Steel Pulse, Motown Legends and more
Whitesnake - Good to Be Bad (3.5 stars)
Zero Hour - Dark Deceiver
Mike Zito - Today (4 stars)
June 2008
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide (4 stars)
Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax
The Beatles 'Love' (5 stars)
Biomechanical - Cannibalised
Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity
David Crowder Band - Remedy (3 stars)
Crystal Castles (4 stars)
Deadsea
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Distorted - Voices From Within
Unearthing the Vaults: The Electric Hellfire Club
Ensepulchred - Suicide in Winter's Moonlight
Epicurean - A Consequence of Design
Robben Ford - Truth (2.5 stars)
French Kicks - Swimming (2 stars)
Grave - Dominion VIII
Will Hoge & Jason Isbell: Rising Above It All (5 stars)
Homo Iratus - Human Consumes Human
Intodown - Brave New World (4.5 stars)
Javelina
MorleyView: Killsmith (Neal Smith of Alice Cooper Band)
Korn - Live in Montreux 2004 DVD (4.5 stars)
Last American Buffalo - Marquis For The Debutante (2.5 stars)
Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
Miggs - Unraveled (3.5 stars)
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles (4.5 stars)
My Ruin - Throat Full of Heart (5 stars)
Paper Rival Inside Track
Pharaoh - Be Gone
R.E.M. - End of the World
Rev. Bubba D Liverance & The Cornhole Prophets - Let My Peoples Dance (4 stars)
Kid Rock Delivers More Bang For Fewer Bucks
Rigor Sardonicous - Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus (4.5 stars)
Ringo Starr - Liverpool 8 (4 stars)
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Sirhan Sirhan - Blood (2.5 stars)
Twisterbait - I Spy (4 stars)
Van Halen Live
Overviews: Hem, Ferraby Lionheart, Mike Oldfield and John Tesh
Pithy Reviews: Cherry Poppin' Daddies, J-Henry, In Flight Radio, Jason Yudoff and more
Jazz Icons Vol. 2 DVD Boxset
Withered - Folie Circulaire (2.5 stars)
May 2008
Animosity - Animal
B-52s - Funplex (3.5 stars)
Baskervilles - Twilight (2.5 stars)
Cataract
10 Years of antiMusic: The Cult Live
Cursed - III: Architects of Troubled Sleep
Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (4 stars)
Classics: Def Leppard - Hysteria (5 stars)
Def Leppard Live 03
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Desaster - 666: Satan's Soldiers Syndicate
Dismember
Dominici - 03 A Trilogy Part 3
Classic Albums: The Doors (4 stars)
Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times (4.5 stars)
Duffy - Rockferry (5 stars)
Emmure - The Respect Issue
Farmakon - Robin
Fiction Plane - Left Side of the Brain (artist of the month) (4.5 stars)
Pete Francis - Iron Sea and the Calvary (3.5 stars)
Fueled by Fire - Spread the Fire
Futant Oblivion - This Chosen Madness
Genesis - Remembering Knebworth 1978 DVD (3 stars)
Huns & Dr. Beeker - The Middle of Somewhere (4 stars)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere Back in Time
Emmanuel Jal - Warchild (4.5 stars)
JDJ Band - Cruel Way (1/2 star)
Kreator - At the Pulse of Kapitulation
Lettuce - Rage! (4.5 stars)
Liquid Jungle - Tiny Heaven (3.5 stars)
Crosby Loggins and the Light - We All Go Home
Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies (2.5 stars)
Madonna Like A Scalper
Madonna: What It Feels Like For A Fan
Aimee Mann - @#%&! Smilers (4.5 stars)
Moreland & Arbuckle - 1861 (5 stars)
The Mother Truckers - Let's All Go To Bed (4.5 stars)
Nights Like These - Sunlight at Secondhand (2.5 stars)
North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando (4 stars)
Opeth Interview
Liza Oxnard - Bird On A Wing (4 stars)
10 Years of antiMusic: Pearl Jam Live
Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
Seven Tears - In Every Frozen Tear
Severe Torture - Sworn Vengeance
For You - The New Bruce Springsteen Book (5 stars)
To-Mera - Delusions
Progressive Nation Tour
McDowell Mountain Music Festival
Quick Flicks: Metal
White Light Riot - Atomism (2 stars)
April 2008
10 Years of antiMusic: AC/DC Live
Aerosmith - Rags N' Riches
Ascension of the Watchers - Numinosum (3 stars)
ASHES dIVIDE - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (3 stars)
Bisc 1 - When Electric Night Falls (4 stars)
10 Years of antiMusic: The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - Diamonds in the Dark (4.5 stars)
Andy Browne Trio (4 stars)
Artist of the Decade: Clutch
10 Years of antiMusic: Collective Soul Live
10 Years of antiMusic: When Zane Met Dio
Down - III: Over the Under
Egypt Central (3 stars)
End of Level Boss
10 Years of antiMusic: Enuff Z'nuff
Fight Amp - Hungry for Nothing
Ace Frehley Live
10 Years of antiMusic: Goo Goo Dolls Interview
Id Guinness - Cure For The Common Crush (3 stars)
Jay-Z Classic Albums DVD
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head(Dolly Review)
The Johns - Wanna Dance
Karnivool - Themata (3.5 stars)
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is
Lek - Giant World Knowledge Bliss Control (3 stars)
Leona Lewis - Spirit
Jon McKiel (artist of the month) (4.5 stars)
Steve Miller Band - Live from Chicago DVD (4 stars)
10 Years of antiMusic: Motorhead Legends
Nation Beyond - The Aftermath Odyssey
10 Years of antiMusic: Nine Inch Nails Live
One Be Lo - The R.E.B.I.R.T.H. (3 stars)
10 Years of antiMusic: Pearl Jam Live
P.O.D. - When Angels And Serpents Dance (4 stars)
Porcupine Tree - NIL Recurring (4 stars)
Ike Reilly Inside Track
The Rolling Stones - Shine A Light (IMAX) (5 stars)
Saint Bernadette - In the Ballroom (4 stars)
Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow (3.5 stars)
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot (3.5 stars)
Boss Live: Springsteen in Omaha
Boss Live: Springsteen in Milwaukee
Boss Live: Springsteen in Indianapolis
Story of the Year - The Black Swan (5 stars)
Strix Vega - Drunken Sky (4 stars)
Tantric - The End Begins (3.5 stars)
Emo for K-Feds (a.k.a Punk Goes Crunk)
McDowell Mountain Music Festival
Pithy Reviews April: Chris Stills- The New Amsterdams- Jesca Hoop- Kuwahara- The Yum Yum Tree- Lachlan Horne
Voodooshock - Marie's Sister's Garden
10 Years of antiMusic: Slayer, Dimebag and the Real Slim Shady
March 2008
Taste of Chaos Tour: Undivided and United
Aetherius Obscuritas - Viziok
Animal Mother - No Rules
Arise and Ruin - The Final Dawn
Armory - The Dawn of Enlightenment
Arson Anthem
Avichi - The Divine Tragedy
Bachman Cummings - Jukebox (5 stars)
Bo Bice Overview
Lonn Friend: The Tides They Are a Changing (Black Tide)
Blut Aus Nord - Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination
Albert Collins - Live at Montreux 1992 (5 stars)
Course of Nature - Damaged (3 stars)
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2.5 stars)
Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell
Down Interview
Drag the River (artist of the month) (5 stars)
The Dreaming - Etched in Blood (4.5 stars)
Fight - K5: The War of Words Demos
Good Times Crisis Band - Select a Gather Point (2 stars)
Buddy Guy & Robert Randolph: Carrying The Weight of the Blues (5 stars)
Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues (3 stars)
MorleyView: Jorn
Karmic Whiplash - Nervous System (2 stars)
Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs - A Sea of Lights
Lima Charlie - It's Easy To Be Creepy (4 stars)
Majster Kat - Svarta Zvrhlost
John (Cougar) Mellencamp Guide - Act I: Johnny Cougar
John (Cougar) Mellencamp Guide - Act II: John Cougar
John (Cougar) Mellencamp Guide - Act III: John Cougar Mellencamp
John (Cougar) Mellencamp Guide - Act IV: John Mellencamp (90s)
Act V: John Mellencamp 2K
Yael Naim (5 stars)
Neaera - Armamentarium
Pantheon I - The Wanderer and His Shadow
Primordial
Queen Rock Montreal DVD (4.5 stars)
Tyler Ramsey (Band of Horses)- A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea (4 stars)
REO Speedwagon: Finding Their Way Home
Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
Scale the Summit - Monument (3 stars)
Mishka Shubaly - How to Make a Bad Situation Worse (3 stars)
Sia - Some People Have Real Problems (4 stars)
Silent Fate - The Autumn Machine
Silversun Pickups - Remixes (2 stars)
Sourvein - Ghetto Angel
Sponge - Galore Galore (3.5 stars)
Is The Springsteen Magic Gone?
Rick Springfield - The Early Sound Sessions(Dolly Review)
Temposhark - The Invisible Line (4.5 stars)
Throne of Katarsis
Thrashing Like a Maniac
Tiger! Tiger! - The Kind of Goodnight (4 stars)
Tulus - Biography Obscene
The Two Man Gentlemen Band - Heavy Petting (3.5 stars)
Vader - Lead Us!!! EP
Visionaire 53 - Sound (5 stars)
Tagteam Interview with Whitechapel
Wilco Live
