Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

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  Ec8or

  The One And The Only

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Digital hardcore, the genre that was supposed to revolutionise heavy music and bring it screaming into the 21st century died a quick death....

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  Ratos De Porao

  Sistemados Pelo Crucifa

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  I'm not exactly sure how popular Brazil's RDP are, hence I don't know about the demand or necessity for this album, which is a re-recorded...

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  Atari Teenage Riot

  Live At The Brixton Academy 1999

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  So, you've been on the road for a year. In that time you've flirted with psychological instability and ingested just about every illicit su...

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  Annihilator

  Criteria For A Black Widow

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  For over ten years, Annihilator hasn't existed so much as a band, but as an outlet and stroke session for Jeff Waters' ego. It's always bee...

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  Deviate

  State Of Grace

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  There's this whole movement of metalcore bands over in Germany, France and the Benelux nations of Europe that goes by the tag H8000. H8000...

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  Discipline

  Nice Boys Finish Last

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  Who says that listening to extreme music has to be all spiders, snails and puppy dog tails? Why can't you turn that frown upside down? Who...

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  Mudvayne

  L.D. 50

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  Despite titles like "Internal Primates Forever," "-1, Nothing To Gein," "Pharmaecopia" and "(K)Now F(orever)" nothing can improve this path...

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  Serpent Obscene

  Serpent Obscene

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000

  This Swedish band does a fine job of conjuring up the days of yore in my metal-addled mind. Their music is written and recorded with a rela...