Pig Destroyer – Book Burner Review
The first few times I sat down to try and write about this new Pig Destroyer album, I will admit, friends, that I had a bad attitude. I had already formulated a number of critiques …
Weapon – Embers And Revelations Review
Embers and Revelations opens on a deep, subterranean drone, an ominous calm that gradually twists and shimmers through various introductory motifs and teasing riff-fragments. Weapon’s founder, guitarist, and mouthpiece Vetis Monarch sounds positively gleeful as …
Manetheren – Time Review
I suppose it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to title a 75-minute album Time. Nevertheless, although Manetheren doesn’t quite provide the sort of experience that enthralls from start to finish, the band makes settling …
Winterfylleth – The Threnody Of Triumph Review
Winterfylleth is a bit like a threesome: It looks awesome on paper, but in practice, someone ends up mostly sitting on the sidelines, feeling a little left out and fantasizing about slipping out to grab a …
Resurrectionists – Ides Of Gemini Interview
Los Angeles-based trio Ides Of Gemini plays a satisfyingly homeless sort of music, wandering like it knows which way it’s going only as far as the next brazen footfall. The band’s eerily beautiful debut full-length …
Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud Review
Here are two fairly basic statements about Epicloud, the fifth album from the Devin Townsend Project: First, it is not going to change anyone’s mind – about Devin Townsend, about the relative merits of his …
Serpentine Path – Serpentine Path Review
Sound can get you a hell of a long way. Nail a particular tone, and you might just get the listener in a forgiving state of mind where other shortcomings are concerned. And you know …
Evoken – Atra Mors Review
Summon a forest in your mind. Walk in that forest for a long time, and feel the warmth. It’s a cold kind of warmth, the kind that never seems to rise up much past the …