All posts by Captain

Last Rites Co-Owner; Senior Editor; That was my skull!

80s Essentials – Optional Retro-spections, Volume 1 Haiku

Greetings, time travelers. You all tuckered out from all this 80s’ metal nostalgia yet? Of course you are. We all are. Wait, no… I’m never tired of 80s’ metal. NEVER, I SAY. When others are

Zoldier Noiz – Regression Process Review

“…Let’s start with the dungeness crab salad with avocado mousse, and I’ll have the Moroccan spiced squab with orange-cumin carrots as my entree, please.” “Excellent choice. And for you, madam?” “I’ll have the arugala &

Teitanblood – Death Review

Full-length number two from these Spanish poison-peddlers just dropped and already appears to be mustering a fair amount of publicity. And like most anything that rides the rails of a bulleting heavy metal hype train,

The Wounded Kings – Consolamentum Review

Not too long ago, you couldn’t huck a rock without hitting a drifty, smoky, fuzzy doom band directly in the marbles. Slow-bangers with stretched tunes steeped in bongwater were getting continuous front-page action, and folks

Conan – Blood Eagle Review

The riff, man. The RIFF. Ever since Iommi first laid that heavy slab of Sacramental bread onto our collective tongues, we have all been SAVED – Hallelujah. And surviving all these years later as a