SubArachnoid Space – Eight Bells Review
Instrumental space-rock unit SubArachnoid Space returns with their ninth full-length of grooving, crashing, fx-laden psychedelia. From the opening cascade of “Lilith,” with its snaky bassline beneath twisting drums and swirling guitars, the band’s sound is …
Green Jelly – Musick To Insult Your Intelligence By Review
With an album title like that, I’m not certain one can expect a review more favorable than this… Some fifteen years since their last release, comedy metal troupe Green Jelly returns with a new record, this …
Sanctification – Black Reign Review
Sanctification shares members past and present with Dark Funeral, and despite that they play a totally different style of metal, they share some similarities with their better-known blackened brethren. Like Funeral, Sanctification is an energetic, …
U.D.O. – Dominator Review
Although his name will be rightfully forever prefaced with “former Accept vocalist,” metal veteran and Elmer Fudd lookalike Udo Dirkschneider has fronted this eponymous outfit since the late 1980s. With this twelfth record, he’s now …
3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom Review
In the case of The People vs. 3 Inches Of Blood for crimes against metallic credibility and musical decency, I side with the band’s defense. In fact, I’ve never quite understood why 3IOB rubs so …
Expulsion – Wasteworld Review
As I listen to Wasteworld, I have the comical (to me) image of Expulsion in the studio, playing the album start to finish, and then each of them collapsing in a heap by their instruments, …
Ambassador Gun – When In Hell Review
Minnesota grind/punk trio Ambassador Gun began in 2002 under the bulkier moniker of A Second From The Surface. In either of their two incarnations, they’ve released three previous full-lengths before dropping When In Hell. I …
The Accüsed – The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead Review
The Accüsed’s debut The Return Of Martha Splatterhead was an important record in my extreme metal history—I can still remember exactly where and when I bought it, although I admit that I was behind the …