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Trench reviews Into the Wild Life by Halestorm
I don’t want to overhype this but Into The Wild Life is the best Halestorm album so far. It is their heaviest album by far and a little more dark than previous albums. Even the ballads are heavy. Now I’m not talking about sacrificing babies in satanic rituals dark but the album has just enough…
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Review of Ronnie James Dio This Is Your Life
I had such high hopes for this album. I should have known that it wouldn’t be able to live up to the hype. For those of you who don’t know ‘Ronnie James Dio This Is Your Life’ is a tribute album to the late Ronnie James Dio. With sneak previews of songs by Corey Taylor…
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Review of 13 by Black Sabbath
I feel the need to preface this by saying that Black Sabbath is one of my favorite bands of all time. When I heard the first drum beat of Ironman and then the opening guitar riff with Ozzy’s synthesized voice declaring ‘I am Ironman’ I was hooked. Having said that Black Sabbath’s new album 13…
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Review of Super Collider by Megadeth
Anymore I only do reviews of something if it’s really good and Megadeth’s latest album Super Collider is damn good. It’s an almost flawless album in my opinion. Now some people have complained that it isn’t head stomping, mosh pitting, face breaking thrash metal but I’m ok with that. Even without that level of thrash…
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Trench reviews The Strange Case Of… by Halestorm
I’ve been a huge fan of Halestorm since I saw them at the Uproar Festival in 2010. I loved their debut album, I thought it was almost flawless. I bought the ReAnimate EP when it came out and was amazed at how they could take some crappy songs and make them into amazing covers. I…
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Review of Th1rt3en by Megadeth
Just like I said about Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer, Dave Mustaine is a conspiracy theorist and ego-maniacal prick but he’s also a musical genius. However, that did not translate well on Megadeth’s new album Th1rt3en. While Dave’s conspiracy-minded lyrics were great on United Abominations it was annoying on Endgame and just downright boring on Th1rt3en.…
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Review of Dystopia by Iced Earth
I’ve said before that Jon Schaffer is a conspiracy theorist and ego-maniacal prick but he’s also a musical genius in my opinion. I was a little apprehensive to hear this album because I know nothing of new vocalist Stu Block. I was a huge fan of Matt Barlow and an even bigger fan of Tim…
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The Devil You Know by Heaven and Hell
If Black Sabbath had written Stairway to Heaven it would be Bible Black. This song is an instant classic that should be in the pantheon of Dio-Era Sabbath songs like the song Heaven and Hell. Unfortunately the rest of the album doesn’t rock as hard. Oh it rocks all right and it’s a great album.…
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Operation Mindcrime II
Last night I purchased Operation Mindcrime II by Queensryche. The follow-up to my favorite album of all time Operation: Mindcrime. Plusses: The political rhetoric was kept to a minimum Even more of Pamela Moore, the voice of Mary Great lyrics Geoff Tate’s vocals are still strong The song “The Chase” with Ronnie James Dio is…
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