Zero Down – No Limit To The Evil Review
A year or so ago, maybe two, I was sitting around the office working diligently at appearing to work diligently when my buddy Erik comes in and says, “This looks like something you’d like,” and …
Satan’s Host – Pre-Dating God Parts 1 & 2 Review
Satan’s Host has existed in some form or another, off and on for thirty years now. Their first record featured Jag Panzer vocalist Harry “the Tyrant” Conklin, who departed two years after to join Titan …
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral Review
In 1991, I was 14 or so, another disposable teenager lost in the abundant wastes of suburban Middle(-class) America. Like countless others caught in the endless strip malls and high school football games, the Applebees …
Foreseen – Helsinki Savagery Review
Get a load of that cover, will ya? You’ve got a pile of skulls spilling out of a creepy car park, Ghost Rider and his angry dog, and a hooded demon about to shoot up …
Necrophagia – WhiteWorm Cathedral Review
Conveniently in time for Halloween season, Necrophagia awakens from its three-year slumber. Back in ye olden days of the 1980s, when death metal was just crawling forth from the womb, Necrophagia was among the first …
Riot – Unleash The Fire Review
In January of 2012, the metal world lost a giant when Riot guitarist and mainstay Mark Reale passed away after a long struggle with Crohn’s disease. Reale had been Riot’s sole consistent member through the …
Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire Review
In the spectrum of heaviness, there’s heavy. And there’s heavy. And there’s Godflesh. Other bands have been faster, louder, angrier, more chaotic, but none has better embodied the empty, numbing, noisy desolation of the industrialized …
Exodus – Blood In Blood Out Review
In his review of Hatriot’s mostly forgettable Heroes Of Origin, my erstwhile compatriot Zach Duvall hit upon one fundamental truth about Exodus: In the absence of Baloff, Exodus needs Zetro, and Zetro needs Exodus. The …