Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crepuscule Review
Chthe’ilist (pronounced “Dok’ken?”) made some serious waves with their 2010 demo, Amechth’ntaas’m’rriachth (pronounced “Tooth’n’nail?”), and deservedly so, because not only was that recording a grimly satisfying 20 minute peek into some seriously freaky-deaky, deathly Lovecraft …
Lemmy Kilmister – Born to Lose, Live to Win
Between the 24th of December, 1945 and the 28th of December, 2015, Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister lived the sort of life befitting of someone who emphatically defined the term “rock and roll legend.” Lemmy lived …
Captain’s Best of 2015: Out Of The Dark… Into The Light
Well, the planet somehow managed to make it through another year, despite ebola outbreaks, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, turkey influenzas and massive, MASSIVE amounts of tyrannical human ballbaggery. Loads of dark times in 2015, which led …
Vastum – Hole Below Review
You might think that there’s already an above-ample supply of bands paying proper homage to the noble age of less-thrashy death metal that crept to the surface in the late 80s, but the truth of …
Vhöl – Deeper Than Sky Review
The phrase “whether it’s intentional or not” is as crucial to a music writer as “no offense, but” is to the general population. Both are expressions that allow someone to introduce a controversial or perhaps …
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances Review
Back in 1998, I found myself in a hoity-toity bar in Park City, Utah on a night when a band called Whiskeytown was due to play a show in support of an album called Strangers …
He Whose Ox Is Gored – The Camel, The Lion, The Child Review
“Dickheadedism is humankind’s greatest vulnerability.” ~ Alexander the Great Pretty sure it was Big Al who said that, but it might’ve been someone equally as great or even GREATER. Point being, everyone has the capacity …