SO MANY ALBUMS REVIEWED In 10 SECONDS Or LESS!! | Metal Robot Reviews
Moving into Quarter 2 now, and the albums just keep coming. Not as many found as much as Quarter 1, but a lot of albums nonetheless, and a lot of them are huge bangers. Let’s go through all of them. Aside from a few exceptions, each album was released in either April, May, and June, so let’s not waste much more time.
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The following albums were touched on in this video (in order of appearance):
Hazzerd “Delirium”
Testament “Titans of Creation”
Shadöccult “Self-Titled”
Lucifer Star Machine “Devil’s Breath”
Weed Demon “Crater Maker”
August Burns Red “Guardians”
Conception “State of Deception”
BADGUYSWIN “Cowards”
Nightwish “HUMAN. :II: NATURE.”
Azusa “Loop of Yesterdays”
Aborted “La Grande Mascarade (EP)”
The Black Dahlia Murder “Verminous”
Abysmal Dawn “Phylogenesis”
Danzig “Danzig Sings Elvis”
Katatonia “City Burials”
Warbringer “Weapons of Tomorrow”
Demise of The Crown “Life In The City”
Victoria K “Essentia”
Havok “V”
Vader “Solitude in Madness”
Black Pestilence “Hail the Flesh”
Holden “Ursa Minor”
Omniarch “Self-Titled”
Forgotten Tomb “Nihilistic Estrangement”
Green Carnation “Leaves of Yesteryear”
Naglfar “Cerecloth”
Secrets of the Moon “Black House”
Winterfylleth “The Reckoning Dawn”
Binary Code “Memento Mori”
Firewind “Self-Titled”
Paradise Lost “Obsidian”
Ravenscry “100”
Voodoo Gods “The Divinity of Blood”
Vesicarum “Reign of Terror”
Caligula’s Horse “Rise Radiant”
Crossfaith “Species”
Fairyland “Osyrhianta”
Atavistia “The Winter Way”
Killitorous “The Afterparty”
Solar Flare “Self-Titled”
Dyatlove “Self-Titled”
Alestorm “Curse of the Crystal Coconut”
Bleed from Within “Fracture”
Centinex “Death in Pieces”
The Ghost Inside “Self-Titled”
Elegis “Kultus”
Sven Gali “3”
Anonymus “La Bestia”
Protest The Hero “Palimpsest”
Alarum “Circle’s End”
Beyond the Black “Hørizøns”
Lamb of God “Self-Titled”
Make Them Suffer “How to Survive a Funeral”
Trapt “Shadow Work”
Draemora “Awakening”
Pyrrhon “Abscess Time”
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