All posts by Andrew Edmunds

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

Release The SkyKrakken – An Interview With Corsair

Virginian quartet Corsair has consistently knocked our proverbial socks off — through two EPs and a full-length, this band has never garnered anything less than a stellar review here, never anything less than an 8,

From Ashes Rise – Rejoice The End / Rage Of Sanity Review

As part of an ongoing obsessive effort to completely corner the market on any and all things related to crusty punk, Southern Lord offers up this 7” EP from the re-risen From Ashes Rise. Originally formed

Catheter – Southwestern Doom Violence Review

Don’t quite believe everything you read, kids – this one’s not really doom. But it is violent. Denver-based grindcore trio Catheter last released a full-length in 2005. That disc, Dimension 303, was a fun and

Tankard – A Girl Called Cerveza Review

The Kings Of Beer Metal belly up to the bar for another round… And like you’d imagine, it pretty much ends up like the last few, but that’s hardly a bad thing. We get some

Unconsecrated – Awakening In The Cemetery Grave Review

Like their fellow Spaniards in Graveyard, Unconsecrated looks to their northeast for inspiration. This is death metal done the Swedish way, with the appropriate buzzsaw tone and d-beat-leaning drum beats. Awakening In The Cemetery Grave

UFO – The Chrysalis Years 2 1980-1986 Review

By and large, with a few notable exceptions, the turn into the 1980s was not kind to the giants of 70s hard rock. Metal pioneers Black Sabbath spun out of their nosedive with a new

Septekh – The Seth Avalanche Review

Imagine a half-drunken jam session between Mille Petrozza, Fenriz and Tom G. Warrior, the lot of them caught between ripping through varying combinations of their distinctive thrash, black and proto-black heaviness and just rocking out

Suture – Skeletal Vortex Review

Skeletal Vortex was originally released on Unmatched Brutality Records four years ago, which is right around the time Suture split up. But now both the band and the record are back again, the latter remixed