Summary/Misc

Daily summary of metal reviews.

Today must be National Heavy Metal Review Day... Metal Rules! sure deserves to take it off after all these new reviews this month:

• Abhorrence - Evoking the Abomination
  
• Abuse of Power - s/t (demo)
  
• Aggression Core - s/t
  
• Alghazanth - Subliminal Antenora
  
• Amon Amarth - The Crusher
  
• Antithesis - Dying For Life
  
• Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999
  
• Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant
  
• Begets of Autumn - Keep
  
• Beseech - Black Emotions
  
• Danzig - Live On The Blackhand Side
  
• Diesel Machine - Torture Test
  
• Endo - Evolve
  
• Event - Human Condition
  
• Fear Absolute - The Truth
  
• Fireball Ministry - FMEP
  
• Grinister - Unleashed
  
• Gun Barrel - Power-Dive
  
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
  
• Immemoreal - Temple of Retribution
  
• Ivory Knight - Up From The Ashes
  
• Judas Priest - Demolition
  
• Kaos Rising - Wiped Away
  
• Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
  
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
  
• Mighty Sideshow - The Intro
  
• Mimic - You First
  
• Nightwish - Wishmastour 2000
  
• No Return - Self Mutilation
  
• Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element: Part I
  
• Ratt - Out of the Cellar
  
• Scanner - Hypertrace
  
• Something Wikid - s/t
  
• Sonata Arctica - Wolf And Raven (EP)
  
• Soul Embraced - For the Incomplete
  
• Spiritual Eclipse - Amaranth
  
• Stormlord - The Curse of Medusa
  
• Stratovarius - Intermission
  
• Sweet Distortion - Missing Link
  
• Taraxacum - Spirit of Freedom
  
• The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
  
• The Keepers of Jericho - A Tribute To Helloween
  
• The National Cemetery Orchestra - As Twilight Fades Into Night
  
• Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Kuilun Partaalla (MCD)
  
• To/Die/For - Epiloque
  
• Tramontane - December Dark
  
• Various Artists - Ball One Strike Two
  
• Wrath of Killenstein - s/t
  
• Wrecking Crew - Hello World

And then a few concert reviews to top it off:

• Deicide / Marduk / Gorguts / Withered Earth
  Pine Street Theater, Portland, OR, USA - May 12, 2001
  
• Monsters of the Millennium Vol II
  Alice Cooper, Dio, Ratt, Sonata Arctica: Old Icehall 7.5.2001 Helsinki, Finland
  
• Gandalf & The Haunted
  Live At Nosturi, 12.5.2001, Helsinki, Finland