Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps Review
[cover artwork by the inimitable Dan Seagrave] Hello(ween) all, and a very hellish Halloween to you! Be that this is the designated day of all things dead and frightful, shall we explore something squishy, a …
Feversea – Man Under Erasure Review
[cover artwork by Isak Lønne Emberland] In the perennially cute n’ sassy world of chemistry, there are two types of mixtures: heterogeneous and homogeneous. Either type could be up your alley, depending. Sometimes you want …
Messa – The Spin Review
[cover artwork by Nico Vascellari] Every artist worth a speck is destined to release at least one “divisive” record – you’ve heard a few in your day, I’m sure. The heavy-heeled stagger into stuffy acoustic …
Nite – Cult Of The Serpent Sun Review
[cover artwork by Adam Vick of Dark Meditation] Everyone you know and love is a shambling whole comprised of smaller and smaller parts. You can drill down through the cutaneous, into the tissue, within the …
Best Of 2024 – Isaac Hams: Silly Words For Significant Things
The end, yep. Here it is. Was it worth it getting to this point? With all the rigamarole of your personal life? You’re a mess. The world is a mess. Two messes intertwining like a …
Aara – Eiger Review
Free Solo is the story of a death and doom-defying mountaineer. It scared the shit out of me in an instinctual way, like the thick cloak of night might in an unfamiliar forest. Ascending the …
Mother Of Graves – The Periapt Of Absence Review
Smoke rises from a dirty ashtray and drifts over the side table toward the yellowing windows. September has bled into October, unusually warm, and time seems to have stopped altogether. Day after day, the same. …
Diamonds & Rust: Type O Negative – World Coming Down
SKIP IT Believe it or not, the author of this article has not always been a beacon of handsome joy. The Isaac of the late 2000s was not a man of constant sorrow, per se, …