Articles by Laura Wiebe Taylor

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  Ruins

  Cauldron

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009

  On the other side of the world, Cauldron was a 2008 release. For the rest of us, the second full-length by Tasmanian band Ruins took a litt...

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  My Dying Bride

  For Lies I Sire

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2009

  If it weren't clear with every plaintive lamentation and every ominous rumble that this is, unmistakably, My Dying Bride, For Lies I Sire w...

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  Autumn

  Altitude

  PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009

  The heavy, organ-laden rock that introduces Autumn's new record, Altitude, has a Green Carnation-esque charm. It's a misleading opening, al...

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  Ensoph

  Rex Mundi X-ILE

  PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009

  Sinister-sounding electro metal is Ensoph's specialty — like an Italian answer to the Kovenant — and Rex Mundi X-ILE is the ban...

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  Samael

  Above

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2009

  Samael's latest begins with a melodic and mechanized blast of black violence. It continues in a constant onslaught of blackened mechanical...

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  In Flames

  The Jester Race - Black Ash Inheritance / Whoracle / Colony / Clayman

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  In Flames' first four albums for Nuclear Blast have been remastered, adorned with bonus tracks and features, and reissued in presumably les...

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  Khors

  Mysticism

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

  Spacey art rock one moment, visceral blackened metal the next — sometimes both at once — Khors is an odd hybrid beast. Heavy in...

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  Soilwork / Darkane / Warbringer / Swallow the Sun

  The Opera House, Toronto ON February 17

  PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2009

  With a chunk of the city's metallers banging heads elsewhere to Cynic and Meshuggah, the Opera House had some room to move last night, but...