Captain’s Best Of 2012: Driving Off The Spleen
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every …
Ufomammut – Oro:Opus Alter Review
I struggled with the scoring of this album more than I can remember doing so for any other record in quite some time. I attribute this mostly to the fact that I felt it might …
Prototype – Catalyst Review
Seems like everyone and their mutter is re-hashing classic Teutonic thrash metal these days. That’s just peachy, as I love In the Sign of Evil as much as the next guy, but a huge part …
The Foreshadowing – Second World Review
There are six guys in this band? Five to play, and one to apparently stand vigilant watch to make sure no one dozes off and takes a header into an amp cabinet. This entire record …
Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped The Serpent’s Scale Review
Something I find very appealing about Utah’s Eagle Twin is the fact that there’s not another band currently kicking around that sounds quite like them. I’ve seen them lumped alongside a handful of other droning …
King Of Asgard – …To North Review
Even if you’re not really the type to bury your head in all the various tomes dissecting all the varied sagas of Norse mythology, it ain’t much of a stretch to think that a typical …
Aldebaran – Embracing The Lightless Depths Review
Portland’s Aldebaran has progressively schlepped its overall sound further and further away from the more ‘sludgy’ roots that bound their impressive 2007 debut into a fully functioning funereal death doom band bent on depressing the …
Necrovation – Necrovation Review
Necrovation‘s debut full-length dropped in 2008 amidst a near metric-ton of other bands re-re-re-treading the old tenets of Merciless/Nihilist/[ye olde Swedish death metal band of yore]. But Breed Deadness Blood managed to pierce through the …