Moodring - CD - Mya

January 19, 2004: If you want to know where "out there" is , this is it . A compelling mixture of funk , voodoo and chemicals . The fact that this is still available is scary . A 23 year old friend of mine , upon hearing Gris-Gris and Guilded spinters , told me that I "need Jesus" ! If you want a real dose of the 60's , buy this . There is nothing else quite like it .

Mixing the ferociousness of hardcore and the grind of extreme metal, Coliseum should equally appeal to fans of each style (something becoming more and more common circa the early 21st century) as evidenced by their 2007 release No Salvation . Hailing from the not-exactly-heavy metal hotbed of Louisville, KY, the trio specializes in a seemingly non-stop onslaught of noise loaded with hardcore howling, seemingly always on the move guitar lines, and bash-heavy drumming that would transform the average...

With 1981's suitably named Allied Forces -- their fourth worldwide release and fifth overall -- the three members of Triumph put aside their differences and collaborated more seamlessly than ever before, fittingly delivering what is arguably the best album of their long career. Like the previous year's particularly intense Progressions of Power , and with the possible exception of a rather forgettable new track, "Ordinary Man," the pedestrian mid-paced rockers that had sometimes derailed previous...