Tenhi – Airut: Aamujen Review
This year’s Maaäet was my first exposure to Finland’s Tenhi, and based on how often I spun the record over the course of a month, I was pretty quick on the trigger when I saw …
Solitude Aeturnus – Alone Review
During a time when US-based metal labels were mostly searching for the next meaner, faster, more extreme band, Arlington, Texas’ Solitude Aeturnus epitomized the much less popular doom slant. This left the band with very …
Crystal Eyes – Dead City Dreaming Review
This is some uplifting heavy metal right here, folks. Not obscenely happy, like two bear cubs wrasslin’ in a field of daisies, just seriously uuUUPLIFTING power metal/hard rock, delivered with some incredibly infectious guitar work, …
Sunn O))) & Boris – Altar Review
No other band in extreme music today garners the “love ‘em or hate ‘em” label more than Sunn O))). Regardless of whether or not you consider their achievements to be “real” doom, or even “real” …
The Melvins – (A) Senile Animal Review
I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Not only are Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover the founding members of the Melvins, they’re also soulless wraiths that have survived for centuries by feeding on …
Ahab – The Call Of The Wretched Sea Review
“Yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder man, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very …
Xasthur – Subliminal Genocide Review
How excited one gets in regards to Subliminal Genocide depends entirely on what side of the fence you stand when it comes to Xasthur‘s prolific works. Over the past 10 years, Malefic has produced two …
Striborg – Embittered Darkness/Isles De Morts Review
What’s On Tap: Miserably grim, buzzing, subnormal, unhealthy, lo-fi, simplistic, wacky black metal from a guy who lives in fucking Tasmania. Deep in the heart of ‘Frisco, there’s a fantastic little store called Aquarius Records …