NEW REVIEWS!

Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions

Origin – Entity

Whitesnake – Live At Donington 1990

Job For A Cowboy – Gloom

Salt The Wound - Kill The Crown

Gamma Ray - Skeletons & Majesties

HEAPS OF NEW REVIEWS

Been lazy lately, so here are collection of kinda fresh reviews!

State of East London - "Repugnance"

HammerFall – Infected

Whitesnake – Forevermore

Sylosis – Edge of the Earth

Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times

Scar Symmetry – The Unseen Empire

Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst The Ashes

Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

Foo Fighter's Live Review + Blackguard/Graveyard album reviews!

Got to see the Foo Fighter's Flood Benefit show at the Brisbane Riverstage - holy moley, what a show! Say what you will about the Foo's, but Dave Grohl and the boys know how to put on an awesome performance! Check out my review here

Also two new album reviews, and they are both pretty good records - Graveyard's is probably better, by Blackguard's "Firefight" is still decent enough.

DevilDriver review!

Check out my review of "BEAST"!

Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising review!

Read my review of the mighty AMON AMARTH's new record, "Surtur Rising"!

Soundwave/High on Fire sideshow review!

Check out my reviews for Taking Dawn, The Sword, Monster Magnet, DevilDriver, All That Remains, High on Fire, Dimmu Borgir and Slayer at the SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL in Brisbane 2011!!!

Also, read my review for the High on Fire, Protest the Hero, Trash Talk and Kylesa sideshow!

Neuraxis/Emmure reviews!

Neuraxis and Emmure's latest albums reviewed! One was decent, the other not so much...

Two new interviews!

My first interviews ever... One really good one with Jonne from Korpiklaani, and another semi-good one with Frankie from Emmure!

The Warriors/Dr. Acula review!

The Warriors' See How You Are was impressive, but Dr. Acula's Slander was dull as dish-water.

Total Recall

It's pretty safe to say that no-one's ever hired Ahhnold Schwarzenegger to play a leading role in a high budget film for his acting abilities. Nope, the only thing you'll get from Arnie is terrible/awesome one-liners, garbled dialogue and general buffness, which Total Recall has in spades. However, what Total Recall does boast is an impressive story line which is both unique and somewhat complex - but the main issues are these; Arnie probably isn't that suited for the film, which contains a large amount a dialogue compared to his past roles, and the laughably outdated 'future' technology is ridiculous. However, with a re-boot apparently in works (starring Colin Farrell), a less gung-ho, more dark, updated version might give the story the film it finally deserves.

The Haunted/Scale The Summit/Tesseract/Turisas reviews up!

Each album was great! Not a weak release in the bunch!

The Haunted - 'Unseen'
Scale The Summit - 'The Collective'
Turisas - 'Stand Up and Fight'
Tesseract - 'One'

Mystic River

Directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, Mystic River is simply an outstanding film with an ensemble cast acting at their collective peaks. A film adaption of the novel by the same by Dennis Lehane, the emotional picture that this film paints is both vivid and dark, with the tale of lost innocence and lost love bringing out exceptional performances from Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively for their roles in the film. An outstanding film from a hugely talented director and an equally talented group of actors.

Widow the Sea "Novella of the Ocean" review!

Awesome band from the Gold Coast, check out my review of their debut EP Novella of the Ocean and then see 'em live next time they're in your neck of the woods!

Deicide/Primordial reviews

Two new reviews online! One is of the new Deicide album To Hell With God , and the other is a re-issue of Primordial's Storm Before Calm

The Road vs The Book of Eli

The Road, to put it simply, is an awesome film - just such raw emotion, with the recurring theme of suicide adding to the bleakness of the whole thing. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Boy) is almost amazing enough to steal the film away from Viggo Mortensen, who everyone should know by is a pretty shit-hot actor (hire out Eastern Promises). I wouldn't be surprised if people compared The Road to The Book of Eli (starring Denzel Washington), and while it is a bit similar in the fact that they are both set in post-apocalyptic America and that there is a lot of walking involved, Eli's overt pro-Christian overtones put me off a bit, as did the average ending twist. The fact that The Road more or less avoided violence throughout a large majority of the film helped kept the plot solely focused on the human relationships, as opposed to descending into Mad Max styled action (which somewhat weighed Eli down). Check out both though, but for my money The Road takes the cake by quite a bit.

Four new album reviews!

My four first reviews for the website SMN News!

Farewell to Freeway - Filthy Habits

Times of Grace - The Hymn of a Broken Man

Architects - The Here and Now

Bob Wayne - Outlaw Carnie

Tool @ The Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Awesome show! Read the review here!

BDO review

Co-written review of The Big Day Out Goldcoast!

The band's I reviewed were: Dead Letter Circus, Airbourne, Andrew W.K, Deftones, John Butler Trio, Iggy and The Stooges, Rammstein and Tool!

Signal The Firing Squad review

check out my review of Signal The Firing Squad's awesome debut 'Earth Harvest'

Review of Darkest Hour/Carnifex's show in Brisbane last tuesday (5/1/11)

Make sure you check out the support bands Widow The Sea and Signal The Firing Squad!

Melechesh review

Check out my review of Melechesh's latest album 'The Epigenesis' right here!

Really strong album, and the Middle Eastern elements really kept it from going stale.

I haven't used this in ages, but I thought it would be a good way to put all my reviews in the one place... so anyways here's links to where my recent-ish reviews live, but also what i thought was sick in 2010!

Album Reviews

Live Reviews

When I get some new reviews uploaded I'll make new posts, such as a live review for Darkest Hour, and album's by Melechesh, Signal The Firing Squad, Widow The Sea and Holy Grail!

P.s what the hell is going on in the David Lynch film 'Mulholland Drive'? So confusing.