All posts by Isaac Hams

Miserere Luminis – Sidera Review

[Cover art by Adam Burke] Sweeping, tactile strokes. Threads of light and iridescent color pervading an inky blackness. A sense of continual but ever-shifting movement, like water. You might think these descriptive passages were written

Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short

Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over

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

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