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6.0
HELLOWEENHelloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
9.0
ANTHRAXWorship Music
Anthrax return with sharpened riffs, huge choruses and the kind of rhythmic discipline most comeback albums never find.
7.0
SABATONThe Great War
The Great War is compact, rhythmically sturdy and hook-heavy, though Sabaton’s formula occasionally turns history into assembly-line spectacle.
5.0
ELUVEITIEAtegnatos
Ategnatos contains flashes of Eluveitie’s old force, but its crowded arrangement and uneven pacing blunt the impact.
6.0
ARSISWe Are the Nightmare
Technically dazzling melodic death metal that impresses immediately, though its relentless density eventually becomes exhausting.
10.0
BEAST IN BLACKFrom Hell with Love
From Hell with Love turns shameless synth-metal excess into a near-perfect sequence of hooks, riffs and heroic nonsense.
8.0
WINTERSUNWintersun
Wintersun’s debut fuses melodic death metal speed, folk-inflected melody and grand ambition into a technically dazzling, emotionally uneven whole.
4.0
IN FLAMESThe Jester Race
The Jester Race has influential guitar work and several excellent songs, but its thin production and uneven pacing blunt the impact.
5.0
BEAST IN BLACKBerserker
Berserker delivers sharp choruses and vocal fire, but its synthetic sheen often overwhelms the metal underneath.
3.0
ELUVEITIEEvocation II - Pantheon
Evocation II has texture and atmosphere, but too little dramatic movement to support its long ceremonial journey.
6.0
ELUVEITIESlania
Eluveitie’s breakthrough balances melodic death metal force with memorable folk instrumentation, though the formula can feel overly calculated.
6.0
BATTLE BEASTBringer of Pain
Battle Beast balance arena-sized hooks with hard-rock gloss, though the album loses force when the pacing softens.
6.0
SABATONThe Last Stand
Sabaton’s familiar military stomp remains effective, but The Last Stand too often substitutes scale for tension.