Tymo is a rather unknown oddly named Western Canadian Thrash Metal band that has been around off and on since `14. With several releases under their bullet belt, their newest album hit the streets yesterday. With an odd “Aliens meets zombie Bob Ross” art fetish, well, let’s see what these Canucks are all aboot, eh?…
Damn The Machine: Self-Titled (1993) and “Day One” (2021)
Of the various post-Megadeth projects that Chris Poland was involved in, Damn The Machine is perhaps his most perplexing effort. The fact that it came out on a mainstream music label in 1993, and it’s 1991 “Day One” demo was then re-released in October 2021, is also a bit perplexing. A forgotten prog-metal gem from…
Bandcamp Bonanza: Four Random Things to Check Out in 2022 (and One To Ignore)
For laughs sometimes I go to the Metal section on the main page on Bandcamp, and randomly poke around. It is organized and updated continuously to always show the latest releases first, so there is always something new to check out there. Huge big-name bands, one-shot demos from broken up bands, mainstream acts, underground groups,…
Nuclear Assault “Pounder” Review
SDMetal.org icon Brian asked me to “review an album you hate lol”…, perhaps to provide some balance to the reviews on this site. Unlike spinless ass-sucker metal review sites that shamelessly replace so-so reviews posted on their site with vacuous handjob reviews1 mere hours later (lest they annoy the record labels that feed them infinite…
Todd’s Top Metal Albums of 2021
When I was asked if I wanted to contribute a Top Ten of 2021 list, I jumped on that, assuming it would be a quick & easy slam-dunk. But just like the year 2021 itself, things soon got complicated: albums that I thought came out this year were actually from a year or two prior,…
1914 – “Where Fear and Weapons Meet” Review
World War One — known as The Great War prior to another world-wide conflict that blew up in 1939 – isn’t really discussed or examined in much detail, it seems. Plenty of armchair quarterback “amateur historians” equate “WWII as ‘the good war’. It had the ‘bad guys’ vs. `Merica (fuck yeah! We’re #1!)”…, and WWI…
