Articles by Laura Taylor

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  Beseech

  Sunless Days

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  I was a reluctant Beseech fan, appreciating the atmosphere and textures of the band’s recent albums more than the details. "Was,” I stress,...

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  Epica

  Consign to Oblivion

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  Epica’s latest full-length studio release brings to mind the same adjectives evoked by its predecessors — words like "grandiose,” "momentou...

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  Old Man's Child

  Vermin

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  The clean guitar riff that opens the sixth album by Norway’s Old Man’s Child sounds more ’80s thrash than ’05 Norse metal, and though Vermi...

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  Scar Symmetry

  Symmetric in Design

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  It’s hard not to think of Soilwork when listening to Symmetric in Design, but that’s not meant as a slight or to suggest that Scar Symmetry...

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  Entwine

  Dieversity

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  Upping the quota of sardonic rock (à la Sentenced) this time out, Entwine are now a little less interested in bemoaning the sad, sorry hear...

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  Flowing Tears

  Razorbliss

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  Goth metal in a much more literal sense than many female-fronted bands who, less deservingly, seem to end up with that classification by de...

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  Hypocrisy

  Virus

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  The tenth album from a mainstay of the Swedish death metal scene, Virus is simultaneously an ode to an aging extreme music tradition and al...

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  Siebenburgen

  Darker Designs & Images

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  Dark folklore on a solid metal platter, Siebenbürgen’s latest effort, Darker Designs & Images, is truly a hybrid beast. Feminine serenades...