Phobos - Voivod

Advantages: Metal as It Should Be
Disadvantages: Not teeny metal hah hah that aint a disadvantage

...Hello Cleveland hah hah hah hah. For those of you who are not aware Probot is Dave Ghrol's (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) metal side project. This album has been talked about since 1999 and only released this year. It Features Dave Ghrol Playing everything a an impressive line up of vocalists from the past 30 years of underground metal here is the obligatory list of them:- Chronos (Venom), Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Solufly), Lemmy (Hawkwind, Motorhead), Mike Dean (COC), Kurt Brecht (D.R.I), Lee Dorian (Cathedral, Napalm Death), Wino (The Hidden Hand, Place Of Skulls, The Obsessed), Ton G. Warrior (Apollyon Sun, Celtic Frost), Snake (Voivod), Eric Wagner (Trouble),King Diamond (Mercyful Fate) I bet you have not heard of most of them now have you. Well this album is in reality a tribute to some of the greatest Underground metal acts... Read review

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Advantages: 80's thrash at it's best
Disadvantages: production

...When Anthrax made this album in the mid to late 1980's, it's easy to forget just how little thrash metal had already been made. We had Slayer, Megadeth, Voivod, Nuclear Assault, and Metallica - and of course Anthrax - though it was still a fairly new genre in music. Anthrax's first album, the lacklustre and totally generic 'FISTFULL OF METAL' offered very little new from the usual American metal of the day. The subsequent album 'SPREADING THE DISEASE' however, with it's line-up change and new vocalist, showed an originality, speed, and indeed humour, in metal songwriting that promised so much, especially for future albums. AMONG THE LIVING, signalled Anthrax's departure from being an underground cult metal band on an independent label, to semi-mainstream metal, newly signed with ISLAND RECORDS. And whilst the slightly... Read review

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Advantages: fantastic array of metal heroes, slick musicianship, Dave Grohl :)
Disadvantages: not for everybody

...my word was good enough, but I have no such delusions. Let’s take a walk through this little beauty shall we?! ~*~ The Realm Divine ~*~ “And now the souls they swing / Swirl in cosmic ring / Creations spark it has no time / Rejoin the realm divine” (The Emerald Law) Grohl set himself some parameters, namely that all contributing singers had to be his own metal idols from the 1970s and 80s. What he got was a plethora of big underground names from metal and punk that makes the mouth water… Including “the Diabolical, the Dark and Damnable, the Undestroyable”: (1) GOD that is Lemmy (Motorhead, Hawkwind) (2) Lee Dorian (Napalm Death, Cathedral) (3) Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Sepultura) (4) Mike Dean (Corrosion of Conformity) (5) Cronos (Venom) (6) Tom G. Warrior (Celtic Frost, Apollyon Sun) (7) Snake (Voivod) (8) Eric Wagner... Read review

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