Sacred Steel – Wargods of Metal (1998: Metal Blade)

Manowar hath borne

hordes of hapless dorks for whom

this crap sadly rules

http://www.sacredsteel.eu/html/releases.html

Beautiful Creatures – S/T (2001: Warner Brothers)

Metal Edge zombies

sparkle up from Strip’s gutter

return just as quick

http://www.myspace.com/beautifulcreatures

http://www.allmusic.com/album/beautiful-creatures-r541984

Crematory – Act Seven (1993: Nuclear Blast)

technodeath gothdance

growls up clean melodic hooks;

beauty mates beast spawn

http://www.crematory.de/main/disc/e_disc.php

Cronos – Rock n Roll Disease (1993: Neat)

post-Venom jaunt aims

mainstream, can’t shake hell’s clutches

flawed, shamefully loved

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Cronos/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Disease/2617

Jetboy – Feel the Shake (1988: MCA)

stump-dumb bluez/cheez makes

post Hanoi haircuts almost

seem reasonable

http://jetboyrocks.com/

http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=426&CDName=Feel+The+Shake

Ice Age – Liberation (2001: Magna Carta)

new century Styx

runs progical showtunes through

music school blender

http://www.ice-age.com/liberation.htm

Atrocity – Werk 80 II (2008: Napalm)

past plunder round two

strikes as grindhouse John Hughes film

roughed up familiar

http://www.atrocity.de/discography/

Wishbone Ash – Argus (1972: MCA)

hello 70s

low key prog floats epic tale

mellow dude, mellow

http://wishboneash.com/albums/Argus/

Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings (1995: Century Media)

finding their strides here,

new voice taps top potential

though not hit all times

http://www.icedearth.com/discography/burnt-offerings

The Damned – Not of this Earth (1996: Cleopatra)

Fanbase torn with this

half-band rebirth done half true

safely caged gothpunk

http://www.officialdamned.com/index.php

http://www.allmusic.com/album/not-of-this-earth-r247916

Dragorlad – Incantations (1998: II Moons)

Cover speaks volumes

yet contents sneak past first glance,

C-grade spook show cheez

http://users.skynet.be/dagorlad/incantations.htm

Rumbledog – The Drowning Pool (1995: Mirror)

post Dirty Looks grime

gets smidge more raw, groove still there

Henrik did it right

http://dirtylooksmusic.com/dirtylooks-drowning.shtml

Dominon Caligulai – A New Era Arises (2003: No Fashion)

Classic rock riffs get

blacken’d vocals to deter

those outside the kvlt

http://www.allmusic.com/album/new-era-rises-r624141