Recent ChangesMarch 18, 2008 -- Added reviews for Symphony X's Paradise Lost and Machine Head's The Blackening. February 23, 2008 -- Added reviews for Running Wild's Gates to Purgatory and Branded and Exiled. February 12, 2008 -- Added reviews for Slayer's Hell Awaits and Warrant's Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. February 8, 2008 -- Added reviews for Rhino Bucket's Get Used to It and Pain, Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, and Running Wild's The First Years of Piracy. February 2, 2008 -- Added review for Killswitch Engage's Alive or Just Breathing. January 25, 2008 -- Added reviews for Helloween's Gambling With the Devil and Danger Danger's Screw It!. January 20, 2008 -- Added reviews for Jackyl's Push Comes to Shove and Relentless, Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, and Aerosmith's Get Your Wings. January 18, 2008 -- Added reviews for Ayreon's The Final Experiment and David Lee Roth's A Little Ain't Enough and Your Filthy Little Mouth. January 17, 2008 -- Added reviews for Black Sabbath's Eternal Idol and Bulletboys's Bulletboys. January 12, 2008 -- Added reviews for Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV, Kix's Live and Cool Kids, and Rob Rock's Holy Hell and Garden of Chaos. January 10, 2008 -- Added review for The Cult's Beyond Good and Evil. January 6, 2008 -- Added reviews for Warrant's Belly to Belly, In Flames' Come Clarity, LA Guns' Hollywood Vampires, and Accept's Breaker. January 5, 2008 -- Added reviews for Aerosmith's Draw the Line and Angra's Holy Land and Rebirth. January 3, 2008 -- Added reviews for Helloween's Legacy World Tour and Alice Cooper's The Last Temptation. January 1, 2008 -- Added reviews for Kamelot's Ghost Opera and Ratt's Ratt and Collage. December 29, 2007 -- Added reviews for Van Halen's Live: Right Here, Right Now and Van Halen 3. December 21, 2007 -- Added reviews for Shadows Fall's Threads of Life and Scorpions' Humanity: Hour I. December 17, 2007 -- Added review for Megadeth's United Abominations. November 1, 2007 -- Updated the "Webmaster info" page with information on the status of UMR in general. February 24, 2007 -- Added reviews for Exodus's Bonded by Blood and Force of Habit, and Winger's Winger. January 27, 2007 -- Added review for Trivium's The Crusade. January 21, 2007 -- Added review for Motorhead's Kiss of Death. January 13, 2007 -- Added reviews for Trivium's Ember to Inferno and Ascendancy, and Ayreon's Into the Electric Castle. November 29, 2006 -- Added review for Beyond Fear's Beyond Fear. November 9, 2006 -- Added review for Metal Church's A Light in the Dark. October 28, 2006 -- Added review for Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime II. September 3, 2006 -- Added review for Iron Maiden's A Matter of Life and Death. August 26, 2006 -- Added reviews for Jag Panzer's Casting the Stones and Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy. August 6, 2006 -- Added review for Killing Machine's Metalmorphosis. February 27, 2006 -- Added review for Soul Sirkus's World Play. February 9, 2006 -- Added reviews for Alice Cooper's Constrictor and Hey Stoopid. February 1, 2006 -- Added reviews for Naglfar's Diabolical and Watchtower's Control and Resistance. December 21, 2005 -- Added reviews for Kreator's Pleasure to Kill, Flag of Hate, Extreme Aggression, Violent Revolution, and Enemy of God. December 7, 2005 -- Updated the Year Charts for 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1992, and 1990. December 5, 2005 -- Added review for Gamma Ray's Majestic. October 29, 2005 -- Added review for Primal Fear's Seven Seals. September 23, 2005 -- Added reviews for Brainstorm's Liquid Monster and 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish. August 12, 2005 -- Added reviews for Nightrage's Sweet Vengeance and Descent Into Chaos, and Blind Guardian's Tales From the Twilight World. June 12, 2005 -- Added reviews for Demons & Wizards' Touched By the Crimson King, Morgana Lefay's Grand Materia, Nevermore's This Godless Endeavor, and Bruce Dickinson's Tyranny of Souls. May 27, 2005 -- Added reviews for Mystic Prophecy's Vengeance and Never-Ending. May 18, 2005 -- Added reviews for At Vance's No Escape and Dragonchaser, and Lullacry's Be My God. April 23, 2005 -- Added reviews for Grave Digger's The Last Supper and Masterplan's Aeronautics. April 17, 2005 -- Added review for Running Wild's Pile of Skulls. April 16, 2005 -- Added review for MVP's The Altar. April 3, 2005 -- Added review for Project Steiger's Defiance. March 30, 2005 -- Added review for DGM's Hidden Place. March 19, 2005 -- Added reviews for Wicked Sensation's Exceptional and Angra's Temple of Shadows. March 11, 2005 -- Added reviews for Hammerfall's Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken, Annihilator's Double Live Annihilation, and Stuck Mojo's Hvy. 1. March 10, 2005 -- Added reviews for Fates Warning's Night on Brocken, The Spectre Within, and FWX. February 27, 2005 -- Added reviews for Kamelot's The Black Halo and Overkill's ReliXIV. February 17, 2005 -- Added review for Paragon's The Dark Legacy. February 12, 2005 -- Added reviews for Mob Rules' Temple of Two Suns, Hollowed Be Thy Name, and Among the Gods. February 11, 2005 -- Updated the following Year Charts: 2005, 2004, 2003, 1990, 1987, 1986. February 9, 2005 -- Added review for Tygers of Pan Tang's Noises From the Cathouse. February 5, 2005 -- Added reviews for Silent Force's Worlds Apart and Kiss' Dressed to Kill. February 4, 2005 -- Added reviews for Dark Tranquility's Character and the Tak Matusmoto Group's TMG1. February 3, 2005 -- Added reviews for Manowar's Battle Hymns and DSG's Ashes to Ashes. February 1, 2005 -- Added reviews for Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution and Black Label Society's Mafia. January 29, 2005 -- Added reviews for PainmuseuM's Metal For Life and Helstar's Burning Star and Remnants of War.
January 25, 2005 -- A ton of guitar magazines (Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, etc.) are up FOR SALE, as
well as some Iron Maiden collectables. January 23, 2005 -- Added reviews for Soilwork's Stabbing the Drama and Black Sabbath's Volume 4. January 15, 2005 -- Added review for Lamb of God's Ashes of the Wake. January 4, 2005 -- Several CDs (Grave Digger, Dimmu Borgir, At Vance, etc.) are for sale HERE. They say shipping to the U.S. only, but I'll ship international -- just let me know you arrived there through UMR. December 24, 2004 -- Merry (almost) Christmas, everyone. Added reviews for Edguy's Hellfire Club, Kotipelto's Coldness, and Ironware's Break Out. December 21, 2004 -- Added a Metal Reflection on Dimebag Darrell. December 20, 2004 -- Added reviews for Ayreon's The Human Equation, Motorhead's Inferno, and Lost Horizon's A Flame to the Ground Beneath. December 19, 2004 -- Added reviews for Threshold's Subsurface and Thunderstorm's Faithless Soul. December 16, 2004 -- Added review for Heavenly's Dust to Dust. December 12, 2004 -- Added reviews for King Diamond's The Eye and Sonata Arctica's Winterheart's Guild. December 11, 2004 -- Added reviews for Scorpions' Unbreakable, Amon Amarth's Fate of Norns, and Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. December 7, 2004 -- Added reviews for Angel Dust's Into the Dark Past and Attacker's Second Coming. December 5, 2004 -- Added reviews for Shadows Fall's The War Within and Eclipse's Second to None. November 28, 2004 -- Added reviews for The Crown's Possessed 13 and Adrian Gale's Feel the Fire. November 21, 2004 -- Added review for G//Z/R's Plastic Planet. November 19, 2004 -- Updated the following Year Charts: 2004, '03, '02, '00, 1999, '96, '93, '92, '90, 1988, '87, '83, and 1980. November 13, 2004 -- Added reviews for Derek Sherinian's Black Utopia and Mythology.
October 24, 2004 -- Added reviews for Metalium's As One - Chapter Four and White Skull's The Dark Age. October 19, 2004 -- Added reviews for WASP's The Neon God Part 2: The Demise, Cans' Beyond the Gates, Dokken's Hell to Pay, and Rawhead Rexx's Rawhead Rexx. October 3, 2004 -- Added reviews for Blaze's Blood and Belief and Kotipelto's Waiting For the Dawn. September 18, 2004 -- Updated the News Wire. September 10, 2004 -- Added reviews for Frontline's The Seventh Sign and the Scorpions' Taken By Force. August 29, 2004 -- Added reviews for Saxon's Lionheart and Hellfueled's Volume 1. August 21, 2004 -- Added reviews for Velvet Revolver's Contraband and Threshold's Critical Energy. August 19, 2004 -- Added reviews for Dio's Master of the Moon and Iron Savior's Battering Ram. August 17, 2004 -- Added reviews for Feinstein's Third Wish and Megadeth's The System Has Failed. August 10, 2004 -- The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Megadeth's The System Has Failed and Velvet Revolver's Contraband.
August 9, 2004 -- Added reviews for Metal Church's The Weight of the World and Beyond the Embrace's Insect Song.
July 23, 2004 -- Added reviews for Wolf's Wolf, Black Wings, and Evil Star. July 5, 2004 -- Added a concert review (complete with photos) on the Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles festival.
July 2, 2004 -- The new UMR shirts have arrived! You can check them out and place
an order HERE.
June 28, 2004--Added reviews for Forbidden's Forbidden Evil and Kiss's Unmasked.
June 24, 2004--Added reviews for Death's Scream Bloody Gore and Black Sabbath's Forbidden.
June 22, 2004--Updated the News Wire.
June 20, 2004--Added reviews for Nightwish's Once and Dream Evil's The Book of Heavy Metal.
June 12, 2004--Added reviews for King Diamond's The Puppet Master, Marty Friedman's Music For Speeding, Mystic Prophecy's Regressus,
Valley's Eve's Prodigia and The Atmosphere of Silence, Kamelot's The Expedition, and Megadeth's Risk.
June 10, 2004--Added reviews for Naglfar's Diabolical and Watchtower's Control and Resistance. June 2, 2004--Updated the News Wire.
The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Naglfar's Diabolical and
Watchtower's Control and Resistance. May 16, 2004--Updated the News Wire.
May 2, 2004--Updated the News Wire. April 26, 2004--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: WASP's The Neon God Pt. 1 and Warrior's The War of Gods and Men. April 23, 2004--Added reviews for Probot's Probot, In Flames's Soundtrack to Your Escape, Nocturnal Rites's New World Messiah, Krokus's Headhunter, Possessed's Seven Churches, Heaven's Gate's Planet E, and Accept's Restless & Wild.
April 21, 2004--Updated the News Wire. March 30, 2004--UMR's 2003 Metal Awards have been announced.
March 29, 2004--Added reviews for Tad Morose's Modus Vivendi and Damageplan's New Found Power. March 7, 2004--Added reviews for Brainstorm's Soul Temptation Type O Negative's Life Is Killing Me, Symphorce's Twice Second, Thunderstorm's Witchunter Tales, and At Vance's The Evil In You. March 5, 2004--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Damageplan's Damageplan, Tad Morose's Modus Vivendi, Possessed's Seven Churches, and Heaven's Gate's Planet E. February 29, 2004--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Kiss' Unmasked, Black Sabbath's Forbidden, and Candelmass' Dactylis Glomerata. February 21, 2004--Added reviews for Primal Fear's Devil's Ground, Tesla's Into the Now, Exodus' Tempo of the Damned, Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, Pink Cream 69's Thunderdome, and Force of Evil's Force of Evil. February 10, 2004--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Primal Fear's Devil's Ground and Tesla's Into the Now. February 8, 2004--New Premium Comments have been added to 31 different reviews -- see the message boards for all the details.
February 7, 2004--A new sounclip-contest has started on the UMR Message Boards. January 31, 2004--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Exodus' Tempo of the Damned, Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, Force of Evil's Force of Evil, At Vance's The Evil in You, Magnitude 9's Decoding the Soul, Symphorce's Twice Second, Thunderstorm's Witchunter Tales, and Type O Negative's Life is Killing Me. January 24, 2004--Added reviews for Rawhead Rexx's Diary in Black, Twisted Tower Dire's Crest of the Martyrs, Digital Ruin's Dwelling in the Out, Stuck Mojo's Declaration of a Headhunter, and Lynch Mob's Smoke This. January 18, 2004--Added reviews for Testament's The Legacy and Agent Steel's Order of the Illuminati.
December 28, 2003--Added reviews for Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond and The Forgotten Tales, Annihilator's Never, Neverland,
and Grim Reaper's See You in Hell and Fear No Evil.
December 23, 2003--Added reviews for Trouble's The Skull, Saxon's Wheels of Steel, Strong Arm of the Law, Denim and Leather,
and Power and the Glory, and WASP's Dying For the World. December 17, 2003--The following reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Savatage's Gutter Ballet, Fight For the Rock, and Ghost in the Ruins, Megadeth's Risk, Ayreon's The Final Experiment and Into the Electric Castle, Brainstorm's Soul Temptation, and Fates Warning's Awaken the Guardian and No Exit.
December 13, 2003--Added reviews for Overkill's Feel the Fire and Taking Over, Carcass's Heartwork and Swansong,
Death's Individual Thought Patterns and The Sound of Perserverence, Iron Maiden's A Real Dead One,
Manowar's Into Glory Ride, and Evanescence's Fallen.
December 6, 2003--Added two new interviews on the Gathering of Souls page: Cage and Devane.
December 5, 2003--Added reviews for Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden, Forbidden's Twisted Into Form, and Shadows Falls' Of One Blood
and The Art of Balance. November 28, 2003--New reviews have been added to the Premium board on the UMR Message Boards: Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden, Forbidden's Twisted Into Form, and Shadows Fall's Of One Blood and The Art of Balance. November 27, 2003--Added reviews for Dream Theater's Train of Thought and Eidolon's Apostles of Defiance, and an Eidolon interview.
November 18, 2003--Added reviews for Balance of Power's Heathen Machine, Cage's Unveiled, Astrology, and
Darker Than Black, and Firehouse's Prime Time.
November 2, 2003--Updated the News Wire.
October 26, 2003--Added reviews for Falconer's Chapters From a Vale Forlorn and The Sceptre of Deception, Stratovarius' Elements, Part 2,
Lullacry's Crucify My Heart, Shakra's Moving Force and Rising, and Voodoo Hill's Voodoo Hill.
October 19, 2003--Added reviews for Morgana Lefay's Sanctified and Joe Stump's Guitar Dominance, Night of the Living Shred,
and Rapid Fire Rondo.
October 12, 2003--Added reviews for Ayreon's Ayreonauts Only and five Lacuna Coil CDs: Lacuna Coil, Halflife, In a Reverie,
Unleashed Memories, and Comalies. October 5, 2003--Added three new Gathering of Souls articles-- Expanding Horizons: Swamp Metal; UMR Discovery: Nevermore; and a concert review on Overkill.
September 28, 2003--Added reviews for Amon Amarth's Versus the World, Royal Hunt's Eye Witness,
Pretty Maids' Planet Panic, and Marty Friedman's Dragon's Kiss. September 21, 2003--Added reviews for Arch Enemy's Anthems of Rebellion, Children of Bodom's Something Wild and Follow the Reaper, Lynch/Pilson's Wicked Underground, and Rage's Soundchaser. September 15, 2003--Two new Gathering of Souls article have been posted -- UMR Discovery: Impelliteri and Metal Memories: AC/DC -- Me 'an Bon. September 10, 2003--Five new reviews are available via the Message Boards. September 6, 2003--Added reviews for Iron Maiden's Dance of Death and Nightwish's From Wishes to Eternity and Over the Hills and Far Away. September 5, 2003--Added reviews for Circle II Circle's Watching in Silence and Luca Turilli's King of the Nordic Twilight and Prophet of the Last Eclipse. September 3, 2003--Added review for Axel Rudi Pell's Shadow Zone. August 29, 2003--Updated the News Wire. August 17, 2003--Added reviews for Skid Row's Thickskin and Alice Cooper's Raise Your Fist and Yell, Trash, and School's Out. August 15, 2003--Added review for Rob Rock's Eyes of Eternity. August 10, 2003--Added review for Nocturnal Rites' Shadowland. August 1, 2003--Updated the News Wire. July 26, 2003--Updated the News Wire.
July 23, 2003--Added review for Queensryche's Tribe.
July 20, 2003--New premium comments have been added to the following reviews: The Haunted's The Haunted, WASP's The Crimson Idol,
Manowar's Kings of Metal, Edwin Dare's The Unthinkable Deed, Pagan's Mind's Celestial Entrance,
Lethal's Programmed and Poison Seed, Savatage's Dead Winter Dead, Warrant's Cherry Pie
and Dog Eat Dog, Skid Row's Slave to the Grind, Testament's Low, Eidolon's Coma Nation,
and Symphony X's Divine Wings of Tragedy. July 19, 2003--Added a new Metal Hall of Fame piece on Iron Maiden. July 9, 2003--Updated the News Wire. July 8, 2003--Added a new Gathering of Souls article on Expanding Horizons -- Black Metal/Immortal. June 25, 2003--Added two new Gathering of Souls articles: A concert review on Opeth, plus an Expanding Horizons article on Doom Metal and Solitude Aeturnus. June 19, 2003--Added reviews for Nevermore's Enemies of Reality, Grave Digger's Rheingold, Soilwork's Figure Number Five, and Amorphis's Tuonela. June 11, 2003--About 60 CDs are currently for sale. You can access the link through this page. June 6, 2003--Updated the News Wire.
June 4, 2003--Added a new Gathering of Souls article-- Great Voices of Metal: Damian Wilson. June 3, 2003--A new contest has started on the message boards -- You can win a free UMR t-shirt by correctly identifying sound snippets of metal tunes.
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