Deströyer 666, Genesis To Genocide - 6/10, Nice, pounding, and epic. Could've done a lot more with that 10 minute run time though.
The Krixhjälters, Kill Each Other - 6.5/10, Some really kicking punk rock-ish melody intermingled with some more abrasive thrash metal parts, almost always vaguely upbeat though, which probably stems from the key it was written in. Decent.
Bolt Thrower, All That Remains - 6/10, Some decent death metal with some really cool Warhammer 40K looking cover art.
Carnivore, World Wars III and IV - 5.5/10, The disembodied, seemingly artificially low pitched vocals remind me of ZZ Top's Manic Mechanic for some reason. If they were more agressive and backed by slightly above average thrash metal. I can also hear some hardcore punk to this thing for sure. Also, the Star Spangled Banner at the end was kinda funny. Overall, just too damn long (stop taking songwriting lessons from 21st century Iron Maiden).
Metal Church, Badlands - 8.5/10, You may be legally deceased if this shit doesn't get you headbanging to kingdom come during its peaks. Bright, fiery, melodic guitar leads, thumping percussion which can do both standard 4/4 80's metal stuff in addition to jangling cymbal/high hat tapping, and epic soaring tenor vocals from the legendary Mike Howe.
Immolation, World Agony - 5.5/10, The guitar is, to have some candor, the only thing that really stands out on this song. Superb playing. Other than that, the vocals are the average cookie cutter death metal stuff, and the drummer is good, but not terribly inspired to say the least.
Polluted Inheritance, Faces - 4/10, Bleh.
Terrorizer, After World Obliteration - 5/10, Half decent but overall generic grindcore.
Witchaven, Monsanto Death Machine - 8.5/10, Love the janky melodies on those guitars man, reminds me of Tony Iommi's playing on early Sabbath stuff, and particularly Randy Rhoads' epic intro riff for the titular track of Ozzy's Diary of A Madman. Exceedingly punchy tempo and melody, even when it goes into the normal black metal swaying. Great, ultra guttural vocals, I feel like I'm in a room with a hellspawned animal frothing the word of Satan from his mouth. I have to buy a shirt and some albums from these guys ASAP.
Order From Chaos, An Ending In Fire - 6.5/10, Decent, but doesn't seem to go much of anywhere.
Sodom, Burst Command 'Til War - 7.5/10, Classic vocals from Tommy here, marvelous speedbag sounding drumming, some proto-black metal guitar. Hell, this whole thing is intensely proto-black metal. Too repetitious though. At least they probably understood that and maintained good brevity and all.
Artillery, Bombfood - 7/10, A melodious cyclone of a song complete with beautifully phrased, speed demon guitar and raging, quasi-operatic NWOBHM-esque howling. I would love to rate this much higher, but its thematic incongruousness bars me from slapping any more points on it.
Nuclear Assault, Critical Mass - 7/10, Punkish and thrashy with Mark Tornillo's higher strung little brother on vocals. Killer.
Motörhead, Brotherhood of Man - 8/10, March Ör Die's title track with some electricity and balls. Lemmy sounds like the voice of the grim reaper himself on this one.
