This Week's New reviews
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - Follow the Lights EP (4.5 stars)
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies (4 stars)
Audiopain - The Switch to Turn off Mankind
The Killers - Sawdust (3 stars)
Moonspell - Under Satanae
V:28 - VioLution (artist of the month)
Rick Wakeman - Video Vault (artist of the month)
Lamb of God w/Killswitch Engage, Devildriver, and Soilwork (12/06/07)
The Soulshake Express EP (4 stars)
Kurt Hagardorn - Ten Singles (2.5 stars)
Blake Lewis - Audio Day Dream (4 stars)
Wait Think Fast (4.5 stars)
Lizzy Borden - Appointment with Death
As I Lay Dying w/All Shall Perish, Haste the Day, and Through the Eyes of the Dead Live
Megan McCauley - Better Than Blood (3 stars)
Fjord Rowboat - Saved the Compliments for Morning (3.5 stars)
Jan 2008
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - Follow the Lights EP (4.5 stars)
Audiopain - The Switch to Turn off Mankind
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies (4 stars)
The Killers - Sawdust (3 stars)
Moonspell - Under Satanae
V:28 - VioLution (artist of the month)
Rick Wakeman - Video Vault (artist of the month)
Dec 2007
Lamb of God w/Killswitch Engage, Devildriver, and Soilwork (12/06/07)
As I Lay Dying w/All Shall Perish, Haste the Day, and Through the Eyes of the Dead Live
Hot in the City V.5: Jimmy Eat World- Meat Puppets- Jjcnv- Haven James- Blanche Davidian- The Morning Kennedy Was Shot- Crushed
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 (3 stars)
We All Shine On: The Legacy of John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell
Beatles Interview
Trench Blank (4 stars)
Cannonball Jane - Knees Up! (3.5 stars)
Pelle Carlberg - In a Nutshell (3 stars)
Rock Reads: Clapton - The Autobiography (3.5 stars)
Cooler By The Lake CD/DVD (3 stars)
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
Alberta Cross - The Thief & The Heartbreaker (4 stars)
Demon Hunter Interview
Devildriver Interview
Diona Devin - Anything But Numb (4 stars)
Down Interview
Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything That Restricts Me From Being The Master (4 stars)
Evile - Enter the Grave
Fall Out Boy: Their Hearts Beat For The Diehards
Fjord Rowboat - Saved the Compliments for Morning (3.5 stars)
Gorefest - Rise to Ruin
Kurt Hagardorn - Ten Singles (2.5 stars)
Will Hoge Live - Hearts, Souls & Minds Are Gonna Roll
Ignitor - Road of Bones
Billy Joel 2007 Photos
Jubeus - Natural Mood (3.5 stars)
Brian Kent - Breathe Life
Carole King - Love Makes The World (4.5 stars)
The Klezmonauts - Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas
Lamb of God Interview
Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction (4 stars)
Blake Lewis - Audio Day Dream (4 stars)
Lizzy Borden - Appointment with Death
Megan McCauley - Better Than Blood (3 stars)
Psyopus Interview
Razzleblaster - Shopping... With Leeches
The Real Tuesday Weld (5 stars Artist of the Month)
Chris Robley Inside Track
Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey
David Shaw - Walkin' on a Wire (4 stars)
She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever (2 stars)
Mindy Smith - My Holiday (3.5 stars)
The Soulshake Express EP (4 stars)
The Swell Season: A 'Once' In A Lifetime Concert
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza II: the Electric Boogaloo
Keith Urban: Like A Rolling Stone
And the Desert Did Rock(Van Halen)
Wait Think Fast (4.5 stars)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (5 stars Artist of the Month)
Trisha Yearwood - Greatest Hits (4 stars)
Nov 2007
Pithy Reviews: Ann Wilson, Gina Gershon, Diana Krall, Supagroup, The Klaxons and Amplified Heat
Halloween Soundtrack (3 stars)
Aeon - Rise to Dominate
Asbestoscape (3 stars)
Avenged Sevenfold (4 stars)
Baby Elephant - Turn My Teeth Up! (2 stars)
Rock Reads - Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America (5 stars)
Bigelf - Hex (5 stars)
Lon Friend: Faith, Glory and Medicine for the Masses (Bon Jovi)
Carnal Forge - Testify For My Victims
The Best of the Johnny Cash Show (5 stars)
Alice Cooper: Between High School & Old School
Dntel - Dumb Luck (4 stars)
Entombed - Serpent Saints
The F**king Wrath - Season Of Evil
The Go! Team - Proof of Youth (3 stars)
The Great Deceiver - Life is Wasted on the Living (4.5 stars - artist of the month)
Landmark Albums: Green Day - Dookie
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (4 stars)
Hell Within - Shadows of Vanity
The Hold Steady Live
Hurt - Vol. II (4 stars)
In Battle - Kingdom of Fear
Knights of the Abyss - Juggernaut
Barry Manilow - Greatest Songs of the Seventies
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Megadeth - Warchest (3 stars)
John Mellencamp Live
Mithras - Behind the Shadows Lie Madness
MorleyView: Monster in The Machine
The New Pornographers Live
Operation Ivy - Energy (5 stars - artist of the month)
Puddle of Mudd - Famous (2.5 stars)
Rock Reads: Phil Ramone - Making Records The Scenes Behind the Music (4 stars)
SeepeopleS - Apocalypse Cow Vol. 1 (4 stars)
Sleeper Car - Love & Anxiety (4 stars)
S.O.D. - Rise of the Infidels
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead (4.5 stars)
Treaty of Paris - Sweet Dreams, Sucker (2.5 stars)
Erik Viel - Off the Beaten Path (4 stars)
Synaethesia (The Requiem Reveries)
Rob Zombie Live (2.5 stars)
Oct 2007
Metal Blade 25th Anniversary Tour
Live at KEXP Volume 3 (4 stars)
Love is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (5 stars)
Rock in Asia
Akercocke - Antichrist
Granola Girls (Tori Amos)
Animosity - Animal
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep (5 stars)
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us (5 stars)
Bear Claw - Slow Speed: Deep Owls (3 stars)
Bewitched - Spiritual Warfare
Birdflesh - Mongo Musicale
Bobaflex - Tales From Dirt Town (4 stars)
Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton (4 stars)
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (2 stars)
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings (4.5 stars)
Dethklok - Dethalbum
Down III: Over the Under (4 stars)
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (3.5 stars)
Lily Frost - Cine-magique
Medwyn Goodall - Island Bliss
Kiyoshi Graves - Chase
Ernie Halter - Congress Hotel
Helloween - Gambling with the Devil
Hemlock - Bleed the Dream
MorleyView: Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep)
Ken Hensley - Blood on the Highway (4.5 stars)
HIM - Venus Doom (4.5 stars)
Album of the Year: Will Hoge's Draw The Curtains (5 stars)
The Hotdamns! - Vanquished (4 stars)
MorleyView: Jethro Tull
The Last Goodnight - Poison Kiss (3.5 stars)
Lene Lovich - Live From New York at Studio 54 (3 stars)
Liars (3 stars)
Leigh Marble - Red Tornado (4 stars)
Lozen - Enemies Against Power (3 stars)
Marduk - Warschau
Lisa Dawn Miller - Fly Away (3 stars)
Ministry - The Last Sucker (5 stars)
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds - Live at Radio City Music Hall (4 stars)
Modern Life is War - Midnight in America
Ted Nugent - Love Grenade (3.5 stars)
Of Hearts And Shadows Inside Track
Overkill - Immortalis
Artist of the Month: Anders Parker Live Review and Interview
Paths of Possession - The End of the Hour
The Payola Reserve - 200 Years (4.5 stars)
The Pietasters - All Day (3 stars)
Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensryche (4 stars)
The Radiohead Revolution
Artist of the Month: Raging Speedhorn - Before the Sea Was Built (5 stars)
REM Live (4 stars)
The Saltshakers - Up All Night (3.5 stars)
Maggie Sansone - A Celtic Fair
SSS - Short Sharp Shock
Sodom - The Final Sign of Evil
Britney Spears - Blackout
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live
They Might Be Giants - The Else
Landmark Albums: T. Rex - Electric Warrior and The Slider
Van Halen Live!
Vreid - I Krig
The Warriors - Genuine Sense of Outrage (4 stars)
MorleyView: Y&T
Sep 2007
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (3 stars)
The After Effect - The Shape Of Everything (1.5 stars)
Against Me! - New Wave (4 stars)
Allman Brothers Band Live
...And Here I Lie Interview
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (4 stars)
An Evening of Yes Music Plus By Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (4 stars)
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This (2.5 stars)
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us (5 stars)
Black Francis - Bluefinger (4 stars)
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
Tyler Burnett (3.5 stars)
The Cape May - Glass Mountain Roads (4.5 stars)
Cherry Suede
Collective Soul - Afterwords (3.5 stars)
Crionics - Neuthrone
Dark Castle - Flight of Pegasus (Artist of the Month) (5 stars)
deSol - On My Way
Deathspell Omega - Fas---Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Fair to Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True (5 stars)
Firefall Acoustic - Colorado to Liverpool: A tribute to The Beatles (4.5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Flesh for the Beast - Scavengers of the Damned
Robben Ford - Truth (4.5 stars)
Full Blown Chaos - Heavy Lies the Crown
MorleyView: Patrick Goble
Ari Gold - Transport Systems
Great Northern - Trading Twilight for Daylight
Heaven & Hell - Live from Radio City Music Hall (4 stars)
Iced Earth Interview
James Last - Live in Berlin DVD
Liars (Artist of the Month) (4.5 stars)
Mae - Singularity (2 stars)
Manes - How the World Came to an End
Monster in the Machine - Butterfly Pinned (5 stars)
Mountain - Live in Paris 1985 (3 stars)
Mustard Plug - In Black and White (4 stars)
Naglfar - Diabolica
Nagelfar - Virus West
Naglfar - Vittra
Nemesis Rising - Rise Up
Occidens - Glorification of the Antichrist
Trent Reznor: The Last Honest Rebel
Richie Sambora: "The Answer" Is In the Question
MorleyView: Scorpions
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River (4 stars)
Silverstein - Arrivals and Departures (4 stars)
Sixx: A.M. (Nikki Sixx) - The Heroin Diaries (3.5 stars)
Springsteen: A Rich Man's Working Class Hero?
Spun in Darkness - Birthright
Sunn-O))) Interview
Tegan And Sara - The Con (3 stars)
Terra Diablo - Deluge Songs (2.5 stars)
George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone: 25th Anniversary Edition (4.5 stars)
Johnny Thunders - Who's Been Talking? (3 stars)
Jethro Tull - Live at Montreaux (3 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Unchariot - Untold Depths EP
Valerian - Guerilla Fighting Method (2 stars)
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some
Vital Remains - Evil Death Live DVD
The Other Side of Rick Wakeman DVD (4 stars)
Whitechapel - The Somatic Defilement
Wormburner - A Hero's Welcome (4 stars)
Wormburner Interview
Aug 2007
The 69 Eyes - Angels (2.5 stars)
Aerosmith: Losing Grip On Reality
Akercocke - Antichrist
Avagami - Metagami (2 stars)
Bad Brains - Build a Nation (4 stars)
Adam Balbo - 6 Outta 9 w/Beats (3 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Bladesmith/Ohvrikivi - The Tenebrous Journey
Brian Setzer and the Nashvillians - Red Hot and Live (4.5 stars)
The Bravery - The Sun and the Moon (2 stars)
Underworld and Gabriel Yared - Breaking and Entering Soundtrack
Garth Brooks: Safety and Success in Numbers
Jim Byrnes - That River
Chthonic - A Decade on the Throne (4 stars)
The Confession - Requiem (4 stars)
The Compulsions - Laughter from Below (EP) (4 stars)
Delicate Noise - Diversion
Depressed Mode - Ghosts of Devotion Review
Driver Side Impact - The Very Air We Breathe (3.5 stars)
Eastern Conference Champions - Ameritown (artist of the month) (5 stars)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Dancing Horses DVD (4 stars)
Bryan Eich - Sleeping By a Wire (4 stars)
Evergreen Terrace Interview
Fall of the Leafe - Aerolithe
Ella Fitzgerald - The Very Best of the Harold Arlen Songbook
Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist (2.5 stars)
Glorior Belli – Manifesting the Raging Beast
Glorior Belli - Manifesting the Raging Beast (3.5 stars)
Goldrush - The Heart is the Place (3 stars)
Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding - It's Now or Never (5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Hallways of the Always - A Masturbatory Aid for the Enthusiastically Violent
Fletcher Harrington - Under the Shadow of the San Gabriel (3.5 stars)
Billy Harvey - Bearsick (3 stars)
Hatesphere - Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
HIM - And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004
The High Court - Puppet Strings (3 stars)
Holmes
Korn - Untitled (3.5 stars)
K-OS - Atlantis (Hymns for Disco) (5 stars)
Chantal Kreviazuk - Ghost Stories (5 stars)
MorleyView: Storm Large
Lollapalooza 07 Photos
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: The Makai - The End of All You Know
Constantine Maroulis - Constantine (4 stars)
Dean Martin - Forever Cool
Mondo Generator - Dead Planet (4.5 stars)
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Napalm Death - Punishment in Capitals
Nazanin - Someday
Neurosis - Given to the Rising (artist of the month) (5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Novel of Sin
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
The Perishers - Victorious (3 stars)
Poison Live
Poets & Pornstars (3.5 stars)
Portugal. The Man - Church Mouth (artist of the month) (5 stars)
Rebelski - Sticking on Keys
AJ Rosales - Ultramarine (4 stars)
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure
Seizure Crypt - Hello...My Name is Madness
Shop Boyz - Rockstar Mentality (3.5 stars)
Silencer - Death Pierce Me
Silverchair - Young Modern (3.5 stars)
Shapes of Race Cars - Power (3.5 stars)
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Speaker Speaker - We Won't March (2.5 stars)
MorleyView: Stars Of Track And Field
Straylight Run - The Needles the Space (2 stars)
Sunn-O)))/Boris - Altar
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
T-Pain - Epiphany (3 stars)
The Unseen Guest - Check Point
Keith Urban Live
Video Hippos - Unbeast the Leash (3.5 stars)
Video Hippos Interview
Widow - Nightlife
The Wildbirds - Golden Daze (2.5 stars)
Zweizz - The Yawn of a New Age
July 2007
Pithy Reviews: Graceland Mafia- Mick Harvey- Robbers on High Street- The Oohlas- My Machine- The American Black Lung- Attack Formation- The Actual
Other Worlds: Kool and the Gang- Shlomo Artzi
Hot In The City: Job For A Cowboy, American Black Lung, Fred Green, Mostly Bears, Melissa Cohee, Obadiah Parker, Luca, The Earps, Jeff Dahl, Ty Lusk
Ryan Adams: Reborn (4.5 stars)
AM - Troubled Times
AMPOP - Sail to the Moon
Arjun - Pieces (3 stars)
Unearthing the Vaults: Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
Jock Bartley - Blindside (4 stars)
Beatallica Interview
Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Bergraven - Dodsvisioner
Bergraven Interview
Steve Bertrand - Pain is a Megaphone (4.5 stars)
Frank Black - Frank Black 93-03 (5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Bladesmith - Sharpen Your Blade! EP
Bon Jovi - Lost Highway (3.5 stars)
Bon Jovi: How Much Is Too Much?
Bon Jovi Summerfest 07 Photos
Brown Shoe - Vanity (4 stars)
Ollie Byrd Interview
Cat-A-Tac – Past Lies and Former Lives (3 stars)
Circus Diablo (3 stars)
Albert Collins & the Icebreakers - In Concert DVD (4 stars)
Chris Cornell - Carry On (3.5 stars)
Crowded House - Time on Earth (4 stars)
The Crown - Forever Heaven Gone
The Crown - Forget the Light
Daath - The Hinderers
Daath - The Hinderers(another view)
The Lost Tracks of Danzig (3.5 stars)
Dead Man's Root - Mouthbreather
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (5 stars)
The Dear and Departed - Something Quite Peculiar (3 stars)
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Drift Effect - Be Something (3.5 stars)
Eastern Conference Champions Interview
The Eldorado Lounge - Welcome to the Eldorado Lounge (4 stars)
Engel
Enter Chaos - Dreamworker
Everything is Energy(artist of the month) (4 stars)
Fairmont - Wait & Hope (2 stars)
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator(artist of the month) (5 stars)
Forro In The Dark – Asa Branca (Single) (4 stars)
The Glass - Couples Therapy
MorleyView: Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad
Hanson - The Walk (4 stars)
Hayseed Dixie - Weapons of Grass Destruction (4.5 stars)
HIM - And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004 (4 stars)
Horse The Band - A Natural Death
Steve Khan - Borrowed Time
Khlyst - Chaos is My Name
Unearthing the Vaults: Kong
Low Stars (4 stars)
John Mayer 07 Photos
Madonna – Wild Angel DVD (5 stars)
Paul McCartney at Amoeba Music (5 stars)
Moment Theory (4 stars)
Rico Monaco & Sol Sons- Luna Salerno (4 stars)
Ocean Street (4 stars)
Parhelia - Oceans Apart EP (5 stars)
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
The Police: In Violation of Sucking
Poison - Poison'd! (3 stars)
Portugal. The Man - Church Mouth (5 stars)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (3.5 stars)
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
R. Kelly - Double Up (3 stars)
Scissors for Lefty - Underhanded Romance (3.5 stars)
Bernie Shanahan - You (3.5 stars)
Soulidium - Children of Chaos (2 stars)
Terhen - Eyes Unfolded EP
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Trashlight Vision - Alibis and Ammunition (3.5 stars)
United Steel Workers of Montreal - Kerosene and Coal (5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Vallenbrosa EP
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Vallenbrosa - Hessian Mercenaries
Verismo - City of Kings
Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed
Tyrone Wells - Hold On
Freeway Jam To Beck and Back (5 stars)
Motown Remixed Vol. 2 (2 stars)
Monterey International Pop Festival
Once Soundtrack (4 stars)
Bug Soundtrack (3.5 stars)
June 2007
Fall of Troy, Deftones, Dir En Grey Live
New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
1997 - A Better View of the Rising Moon (3 stars)
Akercocke - Antichrist
ALO - Roses & Clover (3.5 stars)
Jason Aldean - Relentless (3.5 stars)
Aqualung - Memory Man (4 stars)
MorleyView: The Bastard Fairies
Beatallica - Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band (3.5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Behind Lies Ruin Reunion Show
Brant Bjork & the Bros - Somera Sol (4.5 stars)
Bladesmith - Sharpen Your Blade
Corbin Bleu - Another Side
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Bloody Panda - Pheromone
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Strength & Loyalty (4 stars)
Bon Jovi - (You Want To) Make A Memory
David Bowie - Young Americans (3 stars)
David Bowie - The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987: Sight & Sound (4 stars)
A Brokeheart Pro - The Kitten Next Door(Artist of the Month) (5 stars)
Cary Brothers - Who You Are (4 stars)
Clutch Live(Artist of the Month)
The Coast
The Cringe - Tipping Point (3 stars)
Diskreet - Infernal Rise
The Earps - Here Come The Earps (4.5 stars)
The Electric Soft Parade - No Need to be Down-Hearted (1.5 stars)
Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows
Erasure - Light at the End of the World
Everyday Atlas - Your Move
Fair To Midland Interview(Artist of the Month)
Flesh for the Beast Live
Funeral - From These Wounds
Nelly Furtado Live
Unearthing the Vaults: Grotesque
Iced Earth - Overture of the Wicked
The Ike Reilly Assassination - We Belong to the Staggering Evening (4 stars)
Illinois - What the Hell do I Know? (4.5 stars)
Jed - Synesthesia
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Laethora - March of the Parasites
Land Of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss (3.5 stars)
Lost Eden - Cycle Repeats
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love - Ends of June (4 stars)
Jesse Malin: Guitar Redemptions and Connections
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me (4 stars)
Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Media Lab - Bleeding Memory (4 stars)
Midnight Movies - Lion the Girl (3 stars)
Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
Noisettes – What's the Time Mr. Fox? (3.5 stars)
Ozomatli - Don't Mess with the Dragon (4 stars)
P (4 stars)
Grant-Lee Phillips - Strangelet
The Police - (2CD Anthology) (3.5 stars)
Pro-Pain - Age of the Tyranny: The Tenth Crusade
Relient K - Five Score and Seven Years Ago (4 stars)
Rush - Snakes & Arrows (5 stars)
MorleyView: Scatterheart
Scatterheart (4 stars)
Steven Seagal - Mojo Priest
Secrets of the Moon - Antithesis
Shatterpoint - Dead Precedence
Ryan Shaw - This is Ryan Shaw
David Shultz And The Skyline - Sinner's Gold (2.5 stars)
Hensch's Hometown Heroes: Silver Daggers - New High & Ord
Skinny Puppy – Mythmaker
Stalaggh - Projekt Misanthropia
Sunn-O))) - Black One
Super Geek League - Peppermint Rainbows
Take That - Beautiful World
Tesla - Real to Reel (4 stars)
The Tossers - Agony (3 stars)
Uncut - Modern Currencies (4 stars)
The Used - Lies for the Liars
Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
MorleyView: Wensday
Wormed - Planisphaerium
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
Young Gods - Super Ready/Fragmente (4 stars)
