All posts by Andrew Edmunds

Last Rites Co-Owner; Senior Editor; born in the cemetery, under the sign of the MOOOOOOON...

Nuclear Holocaust – Overkill Commando Review

Overkill Commando is the debut full-length from this pack of Polish punk-grinders, after a 2014 demo and last year’s four-way split with Hell United, Cemetery Whore, and the wonderfully named Necrosodomistical Slaughter. In both instances, …

Vicious Rumors – Concussion Protocol Review

American power metal institution Vicious Rumors hits the dozen mark with this latest full-length, thirty-one years after their classic debut on 1985’s Soldiers Of The Night. Now as then, the band straddles the line between …

Asphalt Graves – The New Primitive Review

Something about the word “supergroup” makes me want to run away screaming. It’s just that, for every Bloodbath, there are at least five ones that just come off average at best, or “just a sad …

Anderson / Stolt – Invention Of Knowledge Review

“See light… Soul light…” I wouldn’t exactly call myself a morning person, but this morning, due to a confluence of abnormal events, I found myself awake at dawn. Sitting on my back porch, watching the …

Reptilian – Perennial Void Traverse Review

2016 has certainly been a banner year for death, although, in most cases, that’s been horrifically unfortunate. But hey, in the case of death metal, at least there’s some silver lining to be found, because …

Rotten Sound – Abuse To Suffer Review

It’s been five years since the last Rotten Sound full-length, 2011’s killer Cursed, and three years since the eight-minute follow-up blast of Species At War. Both of those releases firmly cemented Rotten Sound’s place among …

Get To The Bar… Now, Or How I Met Rudolf Schenker

Sundays are usually boring. But not always… “Dude — get to the bar. Now.” Usually, that’s enough to get me, I’ll be honest.  After all, my beloved Yankees were playing the abominable Red Sox, and …

Gadget – The Great Destroyer Review

It took ten years, but here it is, the next Gadget album, only their third in almost two decades. And it’s not terribly different than the previous two, which, of course, is hardly a bad …