Articles by Laura Taylor

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  Naglfar

  Sheol

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  Violently powerful, as song titles like "Unleash Hell” and "Force of Pandemonium” would suggest, Sheol is as melodic as it is brutal. Only...

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  Passenger

  Passenger

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  I admire the spirit behind Passenger — the desire to put out a heavy record that embraces some of the cooler strains of pop and rock — but...

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  Ajattara

  Kuolema

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Carrying on in the dark and venomous spirit of their debut, Ajattara is back. A side project for Amorphis’s Pasi Koskinen (known here as Ru...

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  Forest Stream

  Tears of Mortal Solitude

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  In the spirit of My Dying Bride, the music of Russia’s Forest Stream is slow and brooding, melancholy and atmospheric. Yet there are also e...

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  Golden Dawn

  Masquerade

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Seven years after the release of Golden Dawn’s debut album the band returns with Masquerade. Building upon traditional folk melodies for mo...

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  Madder Mortem

  Deadlands

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  The name Deadlands is an appropriate one for Madder Mortem’s latest album, a musical collection of the bleak and the haunting. Its dark got...

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  Raunchy

  Velvet Noise

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Velvet Noise opens with a brutally catchy punch in the face called "Twelve Feet Tall,” making it hard to decide if it’s time to bang your h...

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  Solefald

  In Harmonia Universali

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  The bizarre musical entity that is the Norwegian two-piece Solefald has returned with In Harmonia Universali, and it feels a bit like a con...