Adam McAuley a.k.a. Victim of Deception
Adam studies in Toronto, Ontario, Canada although his permanent residence remains in Sudbury, Ontario. He is finishing off an English Specialist at University of Toronto. He hopes to become a writer for a publication like a music or videogame magazine. His other interests include reading, going for walks and playing piano. His current location has proven to be his most enjoyable of all his places of residence.
Current top 10 bands:
Iron Maiden
Overkill
Alice in Chains
Immolation
Carcass
Isis
Katatonia
Jethro Tull
Queensryche
King Diamond
Currently listening to:
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
WASP - Best of the Best
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Edge of Sanity - Crimson 2
Machine Head - The Blackening
Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
Queensryche - Empire
Place of Skulls - The Black is Never Far
George Grant
George Grant is a film major who enjoys music. He started his musical journey within the underground punk scene, and slowly he moved into the realm of heavy metal. He has found his niche within black metal and death metal. Yet, he also enjoys his fair share of progressive and art rock. Outside of music George is concentrated on the moving picture. Soft spoken but dedicated to his art.
Current top 10 bands:
Vintersorg
Borknagar
Summoning
Watain
Ruins of Beverast
Katharsis
Zombi
Van Der Graaf Generator
Bad Religion
The Mars Volta
Currently listening to:
Katharsis – Kruzifixxion
Watain – Sworn to the Dark
Antaeus – Blood Libels
One Master – Forsaking a Dead World
Jack Deming a.k.a TheTechnogoat
Jack hails from the frozen forests of New England, and is soon to be a English/Literature Major at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He divides his free time between reading, writing, enjoying music, watching films, and playing/writing music on guitar and other instruments. Jack hopes to someday move to a quiet, northern country with plenty of snow where he can live in peace, very far from all of the crazies and loud people who annoy him so very much.
Current top 10 bands:
Alestorm
Anaal Nathrakh
Finntroll
Fionn Regan
Joanna Newsom
Justice
Moonsorrow
Opeth
Sigur Ros
Yann Tiersen
Currently listening to:
Fionn Regan - The End of History
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Island - Orakel
Ghost Snorter - Serpent Lake
Bloodbath - Unblessing the Purity
Jason Jordan a.k.a. circus_brimstone
Jason Jordan is a writer from New Albany, Indiana, who always says he's from Louisville, Kentucky, because people actually know where that is. His favorite metal subgenres are black, death, grind, and avant-garde.
If you'd like to read more of Jason's reviews, check out
Zero Tolerance Magazine, of which he is also a staff member. He was formerly with
MetalReview.com and
The Metal Observer. For more information about him, visit his
blog.
Current top 10 bands:
Agalloch
Amorphis
Buried Inside
Emperor
Enslaved
Extol
Gojira
Isis
Katatonia
Wolves in the Throne Room
Currently listening to:
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Century - Black Ocean
Meshuggah - obZen
The Photographic - Pictures of a Changing World
Russian Circles - Enter
Jordan Knoll a.k.a. Death Aflame
Jordan Knoll is a 20 year old University student currently studying Film and Communications at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His history with metal began five years ago when he acquired The Jester Race from his local CD shop. This led to a deep exploration of the Gothenburg, death and black metal genres in the years following. In addition to his undying love of old school death metal and good black metal from any era he also readily enjoys the doom metal subgenre and occasionally forays into heavy, folk/viking and power metal. When not listening to music Jordan enjoys quality cinema, a good novel, walks in the park/forest, playing guitar and jamming in a still to be completed death/black metal side project.
Current top 10 bands:
Molested
(old) At The Gates
Burzum
Eucharist
Urfaust
Darkspace
Warning
Alcest
Demigod
Sacramentum
Currently listening to:
Sahg - I
Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Witchcraft - s/t
Laethora - March of the Parasite
Cadaver - ...In Pains
Kim Furness a.k.a. Axemaiden
Kim Furness is a nefarious goblin of doom currently residing in Wales, UK. She has many interests and when not burning things and maiming those around her can generally be found in the university library studying for her MA in Mythology and Folklore. She can also be found surgically attached to her guitar or bass, and generally spends a good proportion of her life being crushed in mosh pits. Kim has been listening to all things heavy since her time in the womb (proof, methinks that parents are occasionally worthwhile) and considers music to be her all consuming passion in life.
Current top 17 bands […and apparently Folklore and Mythology ones too! – RG]:
Alice in Chains
Pantera
(Old) Metallica
Carcass
Turisas
Amon Amarth
Black Label Society
Meshuggah
Bolt Thrower
Corrosion of Conformity
Enslaved
Korpiklaani
Rammstein
Slayer
White Zombie
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Days of the New
Currently listening to:
Heidevolk- Wodan Heerst
Metallica- Kill em All
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
Rammstein- Sehnsucht
Amon Amarth- With Odin by our Side
God Dethroned- The Lair of the White Worm
Vried- Kraft
Enslaved- Isa
Michael Koger a.k.a. unknown
Michael is a 19 year old English Education major with an emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition at Cal State University Long Beach. Like most writers, he is an eccentric individual that should be approached with caution and, perhaps, a blunt object. Aside from spending most of his money on guitar gear and black and thrash metal records, Michael is an avid fan of the moving pictures and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. He works as a cashier at a grocery store and is forced to deal with the public for hours on end for meager pay. He doesn't seem bothered by this. Michael also enjoys growing his facial hair and frightening the elderly. He is the latest addition to the UM writing staff and is beginning to get used to the floggings and lashings.
Current top 10 bands:
Agalloch
Disillusion
Primordial
Virus
Nevermore
Drudkh
Frantic Bleep
Ulver
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Negura Bunget
Currently listening to:
Manes - How the World Came to an End
Eluvium - Copia
Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites
Slaughter - Strappado
Devin Townsend Band - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Grand Belial's Key - Kosherat
Nathan Pearce a.k.a. Nate The Great
Nathan is a farmer and rancher with a university degree in creative writing. UltimateMetal became his home as a writer in May of 2002. Outside of farming, ranching, writing, and music his interests include movies, reading, and playing guitar. A true misanthrope at heart, he has chosen a life of solidarity, away from people, hundreds of miles from the nearest city.
Current top 10 bands:
Meshuggah
Watchmaker
Converge
Neurosis
Old Man Gloom
Isis
Mastodon
Swans
Xasthur
Blut Aus Nord
Currently listening to:
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights
Watchmaker - Erased from the Memory of Man
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Twilight - s/t
Russell Garwood
Russell lives in London with his girlfriend and their pet snake. He is studying for a PhD in palaeobiology at the Royal School Of Mines, Imperial College: this involves the use of CT scans to create three-dimensional computer reconstructions of rare fossils. As well as editing UM’s webzine he is the news & reviews editor of
Zero Tolerance Magazine. In addition to his studies and journalism Russell loves movies and is an avid amateur photographer. His tastes are varied; if something is good, he’ll listen to it, anything from extreme metal to jazz, with a healthy dose of EBM, electronica, industrial, rock and many other styles thrown in. A big fan of world and transgressive cinema, his taste in films is nevertheless similarly wide-ranging, favourites including
Battle Royale, Hana-Bi, Elephant, Oldboy, Requiem For A Dream, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Versus, The Crimson Rivers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away and
Ichi The Killer.
Russell’s website
Current top 10 bands:
Delerium
Emperor
Covenant
Katatonia
Kekal
Manes
Opeth
Type O Negative
Ulver
Between The Buried And Me
Currently listening to:
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Hangman's Chair - (A Lament For…) The Addicts
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Woods Of Ypres - Woods III
Covenant - Europa
Controlled Bleeding - Inanition
Ryan Starr a.k.a. genocide roach
Ryan is currently enlisted in the USAF and stationed in Colorado Springs. He enjoys long walks through the forest, candlelight dinners, and gory zombie movies. He also has a serious case of G.A.S. (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) and fancies himself a musician. For the last 7 years Ryan has been entrenched in the scene, whether in the US or abroad, playing in various bands, teaching guitar, and spreading the word of metal to all he meets.
Current top 10 bands (in order of preference):
Emperor
Enslaved
Blind Guardian
Bathory
Turisas
Edguy
Borknagar
Thyrfing
Negura Bunget
Carpathian Forest
Currently listening to:
Thyrfing - Urkraft
Negura Bunget - Om
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Extol - Undecieved
Moonsorrow - V. Havitetty
Kiuas - Spirit of Ukko
Morgirion - S/T
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