Jared

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Living in USA
Musical interests:
  • Favorite genres: Symphonic Metal, Industrial Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, and Folk Metal to name a few. I am really a fan of all types of metal genres. Limiting myself to one style is definitely not an option.
  • Favorite bands: Top Ten: 1) Rammstein 2) Ghost 3) Kalmah 4) Hypocrisy 5) Tyr 6) Novembers Doom 7) Immortal 8) Wintersun 9) Aquilus 10) Bathory
  • All time favorite album: It's really hard for me to choose my "absolute favorite." But here is my top five: 1) Mutter by Rammstein 2) Griseus by Aquilus 3) Hammerheart by Bathory 4) Sons of Northern Darkness by Immortal 5) The Jester Race by In Flames
I'm human too:
  • Hobbies: I've been playing guitar since I was about 15. I play both acoustic and electric and practice when I have the time. I love the outdoors and like to do some target practice with my bow on my down time, but I also enjoy Playstation and Nintendo, playing classics like The Legend of Zelda. I recently graduated with a bachelors in Mass Communications and I hope to remain writing here for as long as I am able.
REVIEWS
PLAYLISTS

Let Us Prey - The Saint of Killers
Independent
Thrash/Power Metal
88 / 100
Absolute Darkness - Future Imperfect
Independent
Death/Thrash Metal
72 / 100
Anthology - Angel's Revenge
Independent
Symphonic/Melodic Power Metal
88 / 100
Sonata Arctica - The Ninth Hour
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal
70 / 100
Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Avantgarde Music
Doom/Death Metal
70 / 100 Archive review
Kratos - Arlechino
Inverse Records
Symphonic/Dark/Gothic Metal
78 / 100
Imperium Dekadenz - Dis Manibvs
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Sleep of Monsters - Poison Garden
Svart Records
Goth/Progressive Occult Rock
88 / 100
Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia
Broken Limbs Recordings
Melodic/Folk/Black Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Riotous Indignation - Violentus Musicae (EP)
Repel Music Distribution
Hardcore/Thrash Metal
no quote
Church Of Misery - And Then There Were None...
Rise Above
Stoner/Doom Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Palace of Worms - The Ladder
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black Metal
78 / 100
Barbarian - Cult of the Empty Grave
Hells Headbangers
Speed/Thrash/Black Metal
85 / 100
Talmud Beach - Chief
Svart Records
Blues/Rock
78 / 100
Sixth Dimension - Trauma
Independent
Thrash Metal
no quote
Ice War - Dream Spirit
Independent
Heavy Metal
no quote
Fuath - I
Fortriu Productions
Atmospheric Black Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Aggelos - Silentium
Rottweiler Records
Gothic/Doom Metal
75 / 100
Voidnaga - MMXVI
Iron Bonehead Productions
Black/Death/Doom Metal
no quote
Eleventh Hour - Memory of a Lifetime Journey
Independent
Progressive/Power Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Atrament - Eternal Downfall
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened Death/Crust Punk
70 / 100
Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade
Spinefarm Records
Progressive Metal/Post-Hardcore
70 / 100
Martriden - Cold and the Silence
Independent
Progressive/Melodic Death/Black Metal
94 / 100
Abbath - Abbath
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
90 / 100 Major event
Zyphoyd - Three Days of War
Independent
Progressive Thrash/Death
no quote
Belphegor - Goatreich - Fleshcult
Napalm Records
Black/Death Metal
85 / 100 Archive review
Pergana - The Visit
Independent
Symphonic/Rock/Metal
no quote
Stormhammer - Echoes of a Lost Paradise
Massacre Records
Heavy/Power Metal
75 / 100
Skald in Veum - 1260 Days
Rottweiler Records
Unblack Metal
no quote
SubMine - This Won't End Well
Gomek Records
Doom/Death Metal
no quote
Black Trip (SWE) - Shadowline
Steamhammer/SPV
Heavy Metal
85 / 100
Absolutist - Traverse
Broken Limbs Recordings
Crust/Punk/Hardcore
no quote
Insane Devotion - Infidel
Independent
Symphonic Black Metal
85 / 100
Cape of Bats - Violent Occultism
Broken Limbs Recordings
Punk/Black/Thrash Metal
70 / 100
Human Bodies / Leather Chalice - Split
Broken Limbs Recordings
Post-Punk/Black Metal
no quote
Doomsday Hymn - Mene Tequel Ufarsim
Rottweiler Records
Groove/Thrash/Death Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Sideburn (SWE) - Evil or Divine
Metalville
Hard Rock
80 / 100
Corpspazm - Corpspazm
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black Metal/Crust Punk
no quote
Ad Nauseum - Ad Nauseum
Broken Limbs Recordings
Sludge/Doom Metal
no quote
Ghost - Meliora
Loma Vista Recordings
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Wolfheart - Shadow World
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Set Before Us - Voyagers
Record Union
Metalcore
no quote
Archer - Culling the Weak
Metalville
Hard Rock/Melodic Heavy Metal
72 / 100
Nuclear - Formula for Anarchy
Candlelight Records
Thrash Metal
75 / 100
Lindemann - Skills in Pills
Warner Music
Industrial/Rock/Metal
78 / 100
Nightslug - Loathe
Broken Limbs Recordings
Sludge Metal
72 / 100
Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black/Death Metal
80 / 100 Surprise of the month
Mist of Misery - Temple of Stilled Voices
Independent
Symphonic Black Metal
no quote
House Of Lords - Indestructible
Frontiers Records
Hard Rock/Glam Metal
80 / 100
My Sleeping Karma - Moksha
Napalm Records
Instrumental/Psychedelic Rock
79 / 100
Thunder Rising - Sole Freedom
Scarlet Records
Hard Rock
no quote
Vargnatt - Grausammler
Eisenwald
Depressive Black Metal
60 / 100
Jarun - Pod niebem utkanym z popiolu
Independent
Progressive Black/Folk Metal
92 / 100 Album of the year
Eschaton - Sentinel Apocalypse
Unique Leader Records
Technical Death Metal
80 / 100
Withering Soul - Adverse Portrait
Mortal Music
Melodic Black Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Antiversum - Total Vacuum
Invictus Productions
Black/Death Metal
no quote
Taken by the Sun - Taken by the Sun
Independent
Post-Metal/Doom/Stoner
75 / 100 Surprise of the month
The Inspector Cluzo - Gasconha Rocks
Suicidal Records
Groove/Fusion/Rock
80 / 100
Occult 45 - Human Abhorrence
Broken Limbs Recordings
Grindcore/Sludge
no quote
Battleaxe - Power from the Universe
Steamhammer/SPV
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
90 / 100 Archive review
Mortals / Repellers - Split
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened/Crust/Sludge/Thrash
no quote
Ramlord - S/T
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened Crust
no quote
Gloson - Yearwalker
Independent
Sludge/Doom/Progressive Metal
no quote
Harrow - Fallow Fields
Broken Limbs Recordings
Folk/Black Metal
70 / 100
Sovereign - Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice
Broken Limbs Recordings
Thrash/Black Metal
80 / 100 Surprise of the month
Wolfheart - Winterborn
Independent
Melodic Death Metal
78 / 100
Agatha - Gravis Atque Gravior
Chaos Rural Records
Sludge/Doom/Punk
72 / 100
Negura Bunget - Tau
Lupus Lounge
Progressive/Folk/Black Metal
85 / 100
Dethfox - Natural Media Teleforce
Chaos Rural Records
Anarcho/Post-Punk
no quote
Spook the Horses - Rainmaker
Self-released
Post-Hardcore/Atmospheric Metal
85 / 100
Black Cilice - Mysteries
Iron Bonehead Productions
Black Metal
60 / 100
Alpha Tiger - iDentity
Steamhammer
Power/Heavy Metal
78 / 100
Izah - Sistere
Nordvis Produktion
Atmospheric Sludge Metal/Post-Rock
82 / 100 Surprise of the month
Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares
Broken Limbs Recordings
Progressive/Post-Black Metal
80 / 100
Zero Down - No Limit to the Evil
Minotauro Records
Heavy Metal
65 / 100
The Flight of Sleipnir - V.
Napalm Records
Stoner/Folk/Doom Metal
85 / 100
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Relapse Records
Death Metal
79 / 100 Major event
Sólstafir - Ótta
Season Of Mist
Rock/Post-Metal
78 / 100
Sol Invictus - Once Upon a Time
Tursa
Rock/Neofolk
68 / 100
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
93 / 100 Album of the year
Soen - Tellurian
Spinefarm Records
Progressive/Post-Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Inner Shrine - Pulsar
BakerTeam Records
Gothic/Symphonic Metal
70 / 100
Moon - The Nine Gates
Schattenkult Produktionen
Atmospheric/Depressive/Black Metal
65 / 100
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Candlelight Records
Black Metal
85 / 100
Bauda - Euphoria…of Flesh, Men and the Great Escape
A Sad Sadness Song
Atmospheric/Post-Rock
75 / 100
Hypocrisy - Virus
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
85 / 100 Archive review
Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
Iron Pegasus Records
Black/Thrash Metal
no quote
Ereb Altor - Gastrike
Napalm Records
Viking/Doom/Black Metal
70 / 100 Archive review
Chaos Moon - Resurrection Extract
I, Voidhanger Records
Atmospheric/Black Metal
80 / 100
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Nuclear Blast
Death/Thrash Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Dust Bolt - Awake the Riot
Napalm Records
Thrash Metal
80 / 100
Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
Dark Descent Records
Black/Death Metal
85 / 100
Hesperia - Spiritvs Italicvs - Aeneidos Metalli Apotheosis pars III
Sleaszy Rider Records
Atmospheric/Pagan/Black Metal
78 / 100
Pentakill - Smite and Ignite
Independent
Power Metal
65 / 100
King of Asgard - Karg
Metal Blade
Melodic Death/Viking Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Dråpsnatt - Hymner till undergången (reissue)
Nordvis Produktion
Atmospheric/Black Metal
89 / 100
Metsatöll - Karjajuht
Spinefarm Records
Folk/Heavy Metal
80 / 100
Novembers Doom - Bled White
The End Records
Death/Doom Metal
95 / 100 Album of the year
Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Season Of Mist
Technical Death Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Iron Mask - Fifth Son of Winterdoom
AFM Records
Power/Heavy Metal
68 / 100
Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
80 / 100 Archive review
Acheron - Kult des Hasses
Listenable Records
Death Metal
88 / 100
Craving - At Dawn
Apostasy Records
Folk/Melodic Death Metal
70 / 100
Dark Legacy - Ad Extremum Epilogue
Black Vulture Records
Symphonic/Black/Death Metal
75 / 100 Surprise of the month
Brainstorm - Firesoul
AFM Records
Power/Heavy Metal
89 / 100
Ormgård - Ormblot (Reissue)
Forever Plagued
Black Metal
80 / 100
Hatriot - Dawn of the New Centurion
Massacre Records
Thrash Metal
85 / 100
Ektomorf - Retribution
AFM Records
Groove/Nu-Metal
65 / 100
Battleaxe - Heavy Metal Sanctuary
Steamhammer
Heavy Metal/NWOBHM
95 / 100 Album of the year
Van Canto - Dawn of the Brave
Napalm Records
A Capella/Power Metal
80 / 100
Silent Force - Rising From Ashes
AFM Records
Power/Melodic Metal
75 / 100
Behemoth - The Satanist
Nuclear Blast
Black/Death Metal
70 / 100 Major event
The Unguided - Fragile Immortality
Napalm Records
Alternative/Melodic Death Metal
55 / 100
Portal (swe) - For All That is damned to Vanish
Vic Records
Melodic Death Metal
82 / 100
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
85 / 100 Archive review
Primal Fear - Delivering the Black
Frontiers Records
Heavy/Power Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Mantar - Death by Burning
Svart Records
Heavy/Doom/Black Metal
85 / 100 Surprise of the month
Khaos Aeon - Koenigreich
Self-released
Black/Death Metal
86 / 100
Sólstafir - Í Blóði og Anda (reissue)
Season Of Mist
Post-Black/Progressive Metal
72 / 100
Legion of the Damned - Ravenous Plague
Napalm Records
Thrash Metal
85 / 100
Bathory - Bathory
Tyfon
Black Metal
CLASSIC
The Sword - Age of Winters
Kemado Records
Stoner/Heavy Metal
70 / 100 Archive review
Septicflesh - Esoptron (reissue)
Season Of Mist
Gothic/Death Metal
60 / 100
Phantom - Incendiary Serum
I, Voidhanger Records
Black/Doom Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Keep of Kalessin - Introspection – Single
Indie Recordings
Progressive/Melodic/Black Metal
no quote
Colosus - Blestem
Kaotoxin
Atmospheric/Black Metal
75 / 100 Surprise of the month
Eden's Curse - Symphony of Sin
AFM Records
Melodic Rock
72 / 100
Funeral Circle - Funeral Circle
Shadow Kingdom Records
Doom Metal
88 / 100 Album of the month
Twilight of the Gods - Fire on the Mountain
Season Of Mist
Heavy Metal
80 / 100 Surprise of the month
Austere - Withering Illusions and Desolation
Eisenwald
Atmospheric/Black Metal
50 / 100
Abyssous - ...Smouldering
Iron Bonehead Productions
Death Metal
70 / 100
Gwar - Battle Maximus
Metal Blade
Thrash Metal
75 / 100 Major event
Týr - Valkyrja
Metal Blade
Power/Viking Metal
100 / 100 Album of the year
Imperium Dekadenz - Dämmerung der Szenarien
Funeral Industries
Black Metal
90 / 100 Archive review
Device - Device
Warner Bros. Records
Industrial/Rock/Metal
60 / 100
DevilDriver - Winter Kills
Napalm Records
Groove/Death Metal
75 / 100
Nhor - Within the Darkness between the Starlight
Prophecy
Atmospheric/Doom/Black Metal
80 / 100
Mnemic - Mechanical Spin Phenomena
Nuclear Blast
Groove/Industrial Metal
90 / 100 Archive review
Necronomicon(CAN) - Rise of the Elder Ones
Season Of Mist
Symphonic/Blackened Death Metal
92 / 100 Album of the year
Powerwolf - Preachers of the Night
Napalm Records
Power/Heavy Metal
85 / 100
Sargeist - The Rebirth of a Cursed Existence
World Terror Committee
Black Metal
no quote
Ghost - Infestissumam
Sonet Records
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
80 / 100
Chthonic - Bú-Tik
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Black Metal
78 / 100
Sirenia - Perils of the Deep Blue
Nuclear Blast
Gothic/Symphonic Metal
94 / 100 Album of the year
Cerna - Restoring Life
Domestic Genocide
Instrumental/Post-Black Metal
75 / 100 Surprise of the month
Freedom Call - Ages of Light
SPV
Power Metal
no quote
Holy Knights - Between Daylight and Pain
Scarlet Records
Symphonic/Power Metal
71 / 100
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Children Of Bodom - Halo of Blood
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
82 / 100 Major event
Novembers Doom - Aphotic
The End Records
Progressive/Doom/Death Metal
91 / 100 Archive review
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
65 / 100 Major event
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
95 / 100 Album of the year
Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Napalm Records
Symphonic/Power Metal
78 / 100 Surprise of the month
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
82 / 100
Fejd - Nagelfar
Napalm Records
Folk
75 / 100
Tristania - Darkest White
Napalm Records
Gothic Metal
85 / 100
The Ocean - Pelagial
Metal Blade
Progressive/Sludge Metal
80 / 100
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
New Renaissance
Black Metal
CLASSIC
Aquilus - Griseus
A Sad Sadness Song
Atmospheric/Symphonic/Black Metal
97 / 100 Archive review
Wolfchant - Embraced by Fire
Noise Art Records
Folk/Symphonic Metal
64 / 100
Aosoth - IV: Arrow in Heart
Agonia Records
Black Metal
94 / 100 Album of the year
Hypocrisy - End of Disclosure
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
90 / 100 Major event
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Profound Lore Records
Doom Metal
95 / 100
Emigrate - Emigrate
Motor Music
Industrial/Rock/Metal
78 / 100 Archive review
Therion - Vovin
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Metal
CLASSIC
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
92 / 100 Archive review
Hatriot - Heroes of Origin
Massacre Records
Thrash Metal
81 / 100 Surprise of the month
Immortal - Damned in Black
Osmose Productions
Black/Thrash Metal
87 / 100 Archive review
Spektr - Cypher
Agonia Records
Ambient/Experimental Black Metal
72 / 100
Arkhan - Primal
Monkey
Death/Groove Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Vesperian Sorrow - Stormwinds of Ages
The Path Less Traveled Records
Symphonic Black Metal
84 / 100
Hatebreed - The Divinity of Purpose
Nuclear Blast
Hardcore
34 / 100
Kalmah - 12 Gauge
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
88 / 100 Archive review
Warseid - Where Fate Lies Unbound EP
Self-released
Symphonic/Folk/Black Metal
no quote
Apostasy - Devilution
Black Mark
Blackened Symphonic Metal
69 / 100 Archive review
Hypocrisy - Catch 22
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
91 / 100 Archive review
Antestor - Omen
Bombworks Records
Symphonic/Unblack Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month