Thunderdome Metal Reviews: The Church of Heavy Metal

Metalheads! Ben & David inflict the second studio album by Marilyn Manson on Tracey. The results were....unexpected. What did the man behind Kloaka Metal think of this slice of mid 90s gothic industrial? 

Metalheads!! The trinity is joined by Buck Thornton of Thunderous Voices to discuss a foundational album of the black metal genre. Bathory's third, Under the Sign of the Black Mark.  "Hold high our banner black, the three flames in red Brothers and sisters!"

Metalheads!! We continue our dig through our planet's back history and the Berliner outfit The Ocean Collective's work. The 2018 album Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic. How did it compare to the 2020 release? 

Metalheads!! We head to Dr. Pizzo's old stomping grounds of North Carolina to check out this supergroup. Get a bottle of brown liquor and settle in. 

Metalheads! The machines have arisen again and continued their assault against all things flesh. With our discography blast of the almighty Fear Factory. We spin 1998's Obsolete , 2001's Digimortal , 2010's Mechanize , & 2015's Genexus. Come for the face blasting metal stay for the opinions. 

Metalheads!! This week we got some Heartwork done by Doctor's orders! The first pick from Dr. Pizzo the 1993 fourth studio album by British Metallers Carcass.  The origin point for melodic death metal. We also get an Eddie Van Halen story involving Fred Durst. 

Metalheads! It is time for us to dive into Tracey's pick for an album released in September.  The ninth studio album from the Berlin outfit know as The Ocean Collective Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic . Big History, big prog. 

Metalheads!! Happy Halloween! I know that the realities of COVID mean that most of us aren't doing what we thought we would be doing on a Saturday Halloween night. Still, The Church of Heavy Metal has you with the last of our Spooktacular look into the discography of Paradise Lost with our review of their 16th studio album, Obsidian. 

Metalheads!! We look within ourselves to find the fourteenth studio album by Paradise Lost, The Plague Within! We also reevaluate how we feel about the band with only one more spin left in our Spooktacular. 

Metalheads!! The October Spooktacular continues with the 13th studio album by Paradise Lost, Tragic Idol.  The evolution of the band's sound continues and we are here for it. 

Metalheads! From North of the border comes the Northern Hyperblast of Kataklysm's fourteenth studio album Unconquered, Ben's pick for an album released in September.

Metalheads!! Tracey has sent Ben & David on a trip to Sweden for a tour through the sci-fi influenced melodic death metal of Scar Symmetry. Although, we had some technical issues and lost about 2 minutes off the front end, come hear what we think about Pitch Black Progress (2006), Holographic Universe (2008), Dark Matter Dimensions (2009), and The Singularity (2014).

Metalheads! The October Spooktacular continues with another album by Paradise Lost,  the band's twelfth studio effort Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us. 

Metal Heads!! Our tour of the haunting season continues with the eleventh studio album from Paradise Lost, In Requiem. Note, this is a re-upload without music so it can be shared across multiple platforms instead of just Spotify. 

Metalheads!! In this episode, we spin David's pick for an album released in September. The eleventh studio album by gothic elder statesmen Marilyn Manson and his producer Shooter Jennings, son of Country Music Legend Waylon Jennings. How does this shake out? Tune in and see. 

Metalheads!! We jump forward 11 years in Paradise Lost's chronograph and check out their ninth studio album, Symbol of Life.   Producer Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly fame sits down at the console and works his magic threading the needle between the band's gothic and electronic era's what emerges? Tune in and see.  

Metalheads!! Our October Spooktacular rolls on, with Paradise Lost's second studio Album Gothic. This album also lives up to its name as we see the inclusion of some of the gothic elements that become a staple of the band's sound. 

Metalheads! October is here and it is time for another discography blast from the past. We head down to Texas to look at Pantera. A band that both Ben & David have a lot of history with. A band that rose to stardom then tragically ended.  We look at Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, The Great Southern Trend Kill, & Reinventing the Steel. 

Metalheads!! It is October and time for our second annual Spooktacular! This year, we have decided to spin the wheel and walk randomly through the discography of British gothic metallers Paradise Lost. We open with their first album, the surprisingly death metal heavy Lost Paradise.   The name sums up the listening experience rather well. Enjoy! 

Metalheads!!! Tracey's pick for August emerges from the hills of Pennsylvania, in Black Crown Initiate's third album Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape. This proggy death album elicited strong reactions across the board, check it out! 

Metal Heads!! It is time for some UK thrash to unleash upon your ears! With the 7th studio album by Onslaught, Generation Antichrist! This was Ben's pick for an album released in August. Does it deliver on the promise of its name? Tune in and find out. 

Metalheads!! Tracey is back with his pick for an album released in July, The London outfit Haken's sixth studio album, Virus . This is another one from the Prog-files. What will the oldhead and the Doctor think? Tune in and see!

Metal Heads! We travel to Finland to give Tracey's pick for an album released in June a listen. The debut album by death-thrashers Medicated, Descension.  What did our heroes think of this Entombed-esque ripper? Listen in and find out!

Metal Heads!! Ben's pick for July is this cyber-zombie album by techno-metal veterans, Static X. This album, the bands 7th overall, is a love letter to the former frontman Wayne Static who passed in 2014. Using a combination of demos and other unreleased materials found on Wayne's DA 88 the band, with the mysterious Xer0, Frankensteined an album together. Does it live up to the band's legacy? We h...

Metal Heads! Ben & Tracey take a lethal dose of Terance McKenna and wind up back in 2000 to review the major-label debut of Mudvayne, L.D. 50. This strange amalgamation of death, prog, and nu-metal was considered groundbreaking at the time. How does it hold up? Tune in, Turn on, and Drop tune.