Deceptionist – Initializing Irreversible Process Review
OK. OK. So…OK. I have spent the last week picking myself up from the floor of my car, my room, my place in the universe and time, my soul, and my mind. Deceptionist has released …
Cough – Still They Pray Review
Sludge is, to me, a strange beast. When I hear it, I immediately fall in love. An ocean of distortion; tectonic pacing; so many places to do the single neck-shattering head bang – I should …
Hemotoxin – Biological Enslavement Review
The second thrash explosion of the last decade or so has been interesting to me who lived through the original. Back then I was initially drawn in by songs, such as Accept’s “Fast as a Shark” …
Murder Made God – Enslaved Review
I am a giant homer for death metal; no regrets, no apologies. If a death metal band is just OK, I am in. I love it all. I love old school, new school, blackened, doomened, …
Incantation – Decimate Christendom Review
This is old school old school. More than any album I can recall this year this record sounds like a band doing one or two take shots and living with what they get. All the …
Leatherwolf – World Asylum Review
Leatherwolf? Nah, really? What the hell am I doing here? Bobbing my head? To LEATHERWOLF? What the fuck? That was six rhetorical questions in a row, for those of you keeping score. A band that …
Absentia Lunae – In Umbrarum Imperii Gloria Review
It’s black metal time again, among my least favorite examples of the diversity my pet musical fetish has whelped. But this band has recorded it in a manner I can at least tolerate. You know, …
Bolesno Grinje – Od Nesvijesti Do Grinda Review
Synopsis: Punkrock grindcore that even hints at black metal… I could only find their pic on their label site, so I am flying utterly blind, here, but I think what we have is some vicious South …