Mothra – Dyes Review
The bio info for Poland’s Mothra namechecks the likes of Burnt By The Sun, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Converge, and rightly so. The band’s mathematical metalcore certainly evokes those bands, as well as Meshuggah and …
Jungle Rot – What Horrors Await Review
It seems like most every Jungle Rot review of the last ten years or so starts something like this: “Ever heard a Jungle Rot record? Then you know what you’re getting here.” Kenosha, Wisconsin’s most …
Gnaw – This Face Review
God, what an awesome racket… And I use “awesome” there predominantly in the sense of “impressive” or “astounding” than in the sense of “kick-ass,” although Gnaw certainly kicked my ass, but more in the sense …
Machetazo – Mundo Cripta Review
Spanish death/grind outfit Machetazo is a well-praised and long-running band that delivers solid records. And yet those records, what of them I’ve heard, would fall somewhere between a few feet and just a hair’s-breadth short …
General Surgery – Corpus In Extremis: Analyzing Necroticism Review
General Surgery is another one of those bands that bring to mind the term “Carcass-worship.” For this, their second full-length in nearly two decades of existence, this bunch of blood-splattered Swedish malcontents offer up Corpus …
Captain Cleanoff – Symphonies Of Slackness Review
2009 has been good to me so far. Behind the February offering of Napalm Death‘s monstrous Time Waits For No Slave and the April release of Brutal Truth‘s return, I also belatedly stumbled across this …
Arch Enemy – Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan (DVD) Review
Arch Enemy in 2009 is a band simultaneously just past their peak and well into their decline. Their commercial fortunes have arguably never been better—the last few albums have garnered them more exposure and more …
Grave Digger – Ballads Of A Hangman Review
For nearly three decades, Germany’s Grave Digger has soldiered on, (mostly) bringing us some killer epic speed metal. (They’d probably love to forget their brief departure into Bon Jovi-esque pop metal—under the abbreviated name Digger—as …