Articles by Laura Taylor

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  Apostasy

  Devilution

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Apostasy’s second album takes things up more or less where the first one left off, pursuing a course of Dimmu Borgir-ish symphonic black me...

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  Arcturus

  Sideshow Symphonies

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Arcturus’s Sideshow Symphonies marks the return of Dimmu Borgir’s Vortex (Simen Hestnaes) on vocals and is also the band’s first record to...

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  Children of Bodom

  Are You Dead Yet?

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  I can’t help but admire the over-the-top cheesiness that is Children of Bodom, even in the midst of my cringing. And Are You Dead Yet? effe...

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  Ewigkeit

  Conspiritus

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  If you are at all appreciative of the progressive/metal/synth rock of Ewigkeit’s Radio Ixtlan, the newest entry in the Ewigkeit discography...

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  The Old Dead Tree

  The Perpetual Motion

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  It would be difficult to surpass the dark intensity of the Old Dead Tree’s Season of Mist debut, The Nameless Disease. Not bothering to eve...

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  Ram-Zet

  Intra

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Intra, the third album by Norway’s Ram-Zet, is ambitiously schizophrenic and only partially pulls it off. Most effective when it’s most hau...

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  Solefald

  Red for Fire – An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  The opening moments of Solefald’s Red for Fire, the introductory half of a two-part/two-album conceptual journey, unfold with a lulling cal...

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  Vision Bleak

  Carpathia: A Dramatic Poem

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  With Therion-esque neo-classical metal tinged in goth and a hint of folk, the Vision Bleak’s second album tells a story that mixes modern b...