Amorphis – Borderland Review
You do something for thirty-plus years, and you get pretty good at it. Case in point: Finland’s thirty-five-year-old progressive metal wizards Amorphis. After starting out in a more death metal direction, over the last few …
Helloween – Giants & Monsters Review
Is it even possible, dear friends and readers, to feel bad or sad or glum or anything but radiantly giddy while listening to Helloween? For my money… no, it is not. Thus, new Helloween is …
Blast Rites: Sulfuric Cautery – Killing Spree Review
If you’re one of those poor, unfortunate souls who can’t get into grindcore because “it’s just nonstop blasting and grunts” and “the songs fly by so fast it all blurs together,” then… well, Sulfuric Cautery …
Haggus – Destination Extinction Review
After a decade or so of bouncing around the underground, Bay Area mince-masters Haggus found a new home with Oakland’s venerable Tankcrimes last year, and promptly released two surprise EPs in the process, both of …
Blast Rites: Meth Leppard – Gatekeepers Review
Ah, the life of the grinder, where you wait patiently for one of your most-anticipated releases of the year… and it’s finally here… and it’s fourteen minutes long. But hey, at least, these are fourteen …
Putrid Offal – Obliterated Life Review
Because I love few things more than an absurd challenge that requires no physical effort, one of my goals in 2025 is to listen to the entire Agathocles discography, or at least, as much of …
Doomsday – Never Known Peace Review
Sharing current and former members with San Jose’s Ripped To Shreds, Oakland’s Doomsday is comparable to that band, not so much musically (or really, almost not at all musically, if you split metallic hairs like …
Cartilage – Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology Review
If the band name and the album title and the album cover and songs like “Frothed Vomit Slosh” and “Globs Of Glimmering Gore” didn’t clue you in already… well, what we’ve got here is goregrind, …