Category: Music Reviews

King Diamond: Them (1988) Music Review – By Baron Craze

If one is unaware of King Diamond, he used to be a member of Mercyful Fate, but left over creative differences and unable to push the envelope in musical design and style, he ventured off on his own, with incredible success. First with  ‘Fatal Portrait’, before truly developing horror stories and creating musical stories of…


Drakkar: Cold Winters Night (2018) Music Review – By Baron Craze

The power metal band Drakkar from Milan returned with their seventh album entitled “Cold Winter’s Night”, an EP with four songs released on April 27th, 2018 from My Kingdom Music, contains three new studio songs and a live version of Invincible totaling a scant 18-miuntes in length. However one should note I reviewed this as a…


Motorhead: Bastards (1993) Music Review – By Baron Craze

There is likely not a metal fan who doesn’t know of the fame or the lasting music that Lemmy generated, in early 1975 he was fired from Hawkwind, and curious enough his last song he wrote for them was called ‘Motorhead’. However, before Motorhead became that, it was known as Bastards, as revenge on the…


Hellfire Deathcult: Black Death Terroristic Onslaught (2018) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Black and Death Metal fans know that there is a wide chasm of different veins within these subgenres of metal, namely black metal often dives deeper into one-word ideology ‘RAW’ the purest form. Hence that brings us to Hellfire Deathcult, complete with sheer unbridled lust for intense brutal metal for their followers, hellbent on creating…


Apocalyptica: Cell-0 (2020) Music Review – By Baron Craze

I’ve listened to Apocalyptica off and on over the past years, their interpretations of Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” cover first heard on YouTube likely encouraged me to explore their music, this album marks the first time I have given any truly in-depth focus and review. It is with some research that I learned…


Mark Morton: Ether (2020) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Those unfamiliar with who Mark Morton is, just think of the band Lamb of God, and yes he’s a guitarist for them, but has begun an impressive solo career, it’s not unusual for band members to take time and create their own solo albums countless have done this, in 2019 he released Anesthetic, and in…


Diabolic Force: Praise of Satan (2018) – By Baron Craze

The extreme metal genre appeared back in the 1980s, with the subgenre containing Death, grindcore and rising influence of Black Metal which would combine both Death and Thrash into the mix, however, for this review, we focus on Death and Thrash, from, Diabolic Force. A three-piece band hailing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unleashing their…


Serial Vice: Nightmares Come True (2017) – By Baron Craze

Serial Vice’s “Nightmares Come True” came out on August 25, 2017 released on Sliptrick Records via CD and digital,  from a true Heavy Metal band hailing from southern Italy, although their album contains a few tracks that borderline into melodic rock footing it still achieves the traditional creativity of music excellence. The band’s logo and…


Aeren: Breakthru (2018) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Aeren, is an Italian band, simply able to describe their music as alternative rock, which is still as confusing of a topic and hard to define for many listeners. I often get quite a bit of music sent to me for airplay on of my seven radio shows or for honest reviews, this falls into…


Depraved: Raped Innocence (2020) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Sometimes it’s dangerous for a band for change their musical style but if one makes a careful decision it can lead to something credible avenues of exploration which is exactly what Depraved did, however with a name like theirs, there really aren’t many options available. They originally formed as a severe brutal death metal and…