Unkind – Harhakuvat Review
Finland’s Unkind makes their Stateside debut with their fifth record, Harhakuvat, released on Relapse. Akin to crusty d-beat acts Tragedy and Wolfbrigade, with a more than hefty dash of Neurosis, Unkind shines when channeling the first …
Death Strike – Fuckin’ Death (Reissue) Review
Though they bear different names and a few different members, Death Strike and Master are largely the same, with the former serving mostly as a brief mid-1980s departure from the latter for Master-mind Paul Speckmann, whose distinctive …
Bones – Bones Review
These Bones are pulled from the rotten corpse of Chicago’s Usurper. Their debut, this self-titled disc is yet another old-school-leaning effort in the current wave of such, but unlike almost all the other recent retro-minded …
Orange Goblin – Orange Goblin Review
Long-running stoner outfit Orange Goblin seems an unlikely candidate for the box-set treatment, but courtesy of Metal Blade, they get it nonetheless. Orange Goblin (the box set) is a 5-disc compendium of the band’s first …
Vhäldemar – Metal Of The World Review
Spanish power metal act Vhäldemar has clearly taken much inspiration from their Teutonic cousins to the northeast – quite simply, they couldn’t sound a whole lot more German unless they were chanting “Deustchland Uber Alles” …
Uriah Heep – Into The Wild Review
For forty-two years, Uriah Heep has rocked right along. It hasn’t all been easy living, of course – those early 70s records that are almost universally recognized as the top of the Heep are long …
Falconer – Armod Review
On the whole, Falconer halves me. The idea behind their folk-laden power metal is quite literally a grand one, and yet, in practice, it’s been one I’ve found more clinically interesting than emotionally resonant. Somewhere …
Red Fang – Murder The Mountains Review
Northwestern stoner act Red Fang first crossed my radar brilliantly with the comical video for “Prehistoric Dog,” a send-up of Ren-Fair faux-fencing types with a killer riff-driven stoner-metal tune to match. But while “Dog” was …