Hardcore, Punk & Heavy Metal > L Hardcore, Punk & Heavy Metal > 2006 onwards

Advantages: The title of the album rocks, This terrible sellout lasts 'only' 43 minutes.
Disadvantages: It lasts !!43!! Minutes, every song is horrible, theire new logo sucks too.

...the ?Ballad? They made is truely to get sick of. He has the voice of a screamer, so he should not sing something deep on a slow pace, it is disgusting to hear. - 'Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight' is officially the biggest sell out and dissapointment of 2007. ... Read review

Advantages: Cheerful, catchy, clear non-stupid lyrics.
Disadvantages: Most tracks are not ska in the slightest.

...hears them, as well as in a vocal range easy enough for the majority to sing along to. There are also several opportunities to pretend to know the lyrics 'waaahh ohhhhhhh'. The tracks are still pretty fast, as is typical for a ska band, but the tunes are now caught in the guitars, rather than the brass. However the last track 'P.S Shock The World' seems to be Less Than Jake returning to their ska roots. For the hardcore ska-only fan, this Less ... Read review

Advantages: Great vocals, great hymn/ethnic chanting sound to it and superb play of wind instruments
Disadvantages: None

Ot Serdca K Nebu is the 4th album by Russian metal band Arkona. It was released by Napalm Records in January 2007. This exquisite example of Folk Metal is as good as they come, Masha on vocals is one of the best female vocalists in metal today and her moving harmonies take you back to a bygone age, the band continue with their pagan, russian folklore and slavic mythology themes and nail it to a Siberian grave with progressive yet dark riffs. Acoustic ...
...the album and while it has a mystical feel to it, much of the album has a jolly feel to it but you can also picture yourself as a rural farmer enjoying the long evenings of a Russian summer, occasionally to be attacked by neighbouring tribes with blasts of black metal. The album is largely instrumental but as previously mentioned vocalist Masha can really be counted on when needed and produces some magical stuff. I'm not a huge fan of flutes but ... Read review

Advantages: One Grindcore track reminiscent of Nasum or Napalm Death, brutal vocals
Disadvantages: Nothing extraordinary happening

Strynchnine.213 is Aborted's 6th album and was released on the Century Media label at the end of June 2008, it has been touted as one of the best albums of the year in the metal genre. Aborted are a band that have intrigued me due to their nationality, I don't know a great deal of Belgian bands and despite being aware of them, I had never really given them much of a listen until now. The album is very intense and despite powering it's way through ...
...there is no wow factor and it's not particularly wild, the album has very clean production and sounds like Napalm Death on their best behaviour, attending assembly perhaps! Unless you are a fan of technical death metal (and let's be honest there aren't many), it would be hard to see this album breaking in to your top 10 of the year. Some tracks do have a nice touch, like the sneakiest amount of industrial creeping in to the track The Chyme Congeries ... Read review

Advantages: Good musicianship
Disadvantages: Cheesy lyrics and vocals a bit twee

Iron Will is the 4th album by Grand Magus and was released at the beginning of July by Rise Above. The Swedish heavy metal band put out a fairly strong album with a mixture of doom metal and classic rock in one with clean sounding power or NWOBHM vocals, whilst some may feel that the singer's vocals show a wide range and are full of passion, I find them a little twee particularly when combined with the band's lyrics, they do however compliment the ...
...off the singer's voice with a more edgier sound. 1. Like The Oar Strikes The Water 2. Fear Is The Key 3. Hovding 4. Iron Will 5. Silver Into Steel 6. The Shadow Knows 7. Self Deceiver 8. Beyond Good And Evil 9. I Am The North ... Read review