![Deliverance – Weapons of Our Warfare [The Originals Remastered]](https://downthelinezine.com/reviews/files/2017/11/D_20Weapons_original.jpg)
Twenty-seven years ago, Deliverance recorded a follow-up album to their spectacular debut. Let us be clear, Brethren and Sistren, Weapons was a thrash masterpiece. It earned unique distinction amongst metal purists as an epic release. The album was mixed by the legendary Bill Metoyer and produced by their then-new guitarist George Ochoa, and the results…
When I first heard that Holy Blood was dropping the folk side of their folk metal signature sound, I was more than a bit worried. Black/death/grind/etc bands can easily become cliché caricatures of their own genre once they lose that particular element that makes them unique. It was the folk that drew me into Holy…
Why have I not been listening to Holy Blood since day 1? This is their fourth album, but first for me to check out. I love world music. But when bands mix world music with heavy music? That sends me into the stratosphere. Holy Blood mixes traditional folk music with blistering black metal for a…
I wasn’t sure what I was going to hear when I started listening to this album. The cover and song titles gave me the impression that this would be a goth album. But it came in too close to deadline to get it sent to our resident goth expert Steve. The first few seconds sounds…
I have to admit that I never got black metal when I first heard it. I think I was trying to listen to it as if it were death metal, but there are subtle differences. Black metal is more like alternative death metal… if that makes sense. I went in to listening to the debut…
Disaffection is every classic thrash metal head’s dream band. Seriously, these guys open up with sound snippets of a helicopter and bullet fire in what sounds like a firefight during a war, then comes the piercing guitars, gang vocals, bludgeoning drums and driving bass that I can only imagine is pumped out by ferocious, neck…
Ian Arkley formed My Silent Wake in 2005. For all you metalheads, Ian has played with Seventh Angel, Ashen Mortality, Paramaecium and a couple of other acts as well. This split with The Drowning is great! The first 4 songs belong to My Silent Wake and each one is very different from the other. The…
Somehow a Helloween CD got sent to us for review. Oh, wait a second – wrong continent. This is the Brazilian band Adiastasia. While they aren’t really a full-on clone of any one band, you can easily recognize the influences of all of the big players in the power metal scene – Gamma Ray, Stratovarius,…