Articles by Laura Taylor
Underlord
Rise of the Ancient Kings
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Underlord's Rise of the Ancient Kings is a brief journey into "pure Canadian black death metal," complete with corpse paint, spikes and lea...
Woods Of Ypres
Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Sounding like an import from Scandinavia, Woods of Ypres have released a remarkable debut EP. Against the Seasons could have been recorded...
Wurdulak
Severed Eyes of Possession
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Featuring Iscariah (Immortal) and Maniac (Mayhem), Wurdulak is unsurprisingly vile (in the nicest way possible). The guitars grind along li...
Christian Death
Lover of Sin
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Irate female yelling dominates Christian Death's latest, Lover of Sin, (and if she's the nearly naked gal with the wrist shackles and sever...
Poisonblack
Escapexstacy
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
So Sentenced-like is Escapexstacy that it might take a few seconds to grasp the fact that Sentenced's vocal phenomenon, Ville Laihiala, has...
Antimatter
Lights Out
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Not wasting any time, Antimatter returns less than a year after the release of their debut, Saviour. Visually, Lights Out is the antithesis...
The Old Dead Tree
The Nameless Disease
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Literally fuelled by pain the grief and anger arising from a suicide The Nameless Disease is overflowing with naked emotion. When the O...
Virgin Black
Elegant and dying
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
At its foundation Elegant and dying is doom metal, slow and sombre, sewn together with Samantha Escarbes sorrowful lead guitar lament. But...
