Voivod – Target Earth Review
Originally written by Matt Longo Every Voivod album is a career-defining event — each with its own aura of life and death, tribulations and triumph, exploration and evolution. Considering my penchant for the weird, I …
Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Sludge is one of the laziest, most stagnant subgenres in heavy metal today. Plagued by predictable compositions and gormless bellowing, it’s been mired in an amateurish rut for years. Sure, …
Aeon – Aeons Black Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Aeon‘s career trajectory is something of an extended plateau. Their debut, Bleeding the False, shot them to notoriety, and not just due to the juvenile blasphemy of “God Gives Head …
Ramar Pittance’s Top 20 of 2012 – Creeping Death
Originally written by Ramar Pittance In 2012, the heavy metal “album” I listened more than anything else was a mix comprising only songs made before 1990. It’s a lot of stuff I consider to be …
Rae Amitay’s Best Of 2012: Here’s A Clever Title
2012 didn’t bring about the apocalypse, but it was still a tempestuous collection of days. Still raw from the loss of David Gold and my future in Woods of Ypres, I spent the first few …
Incantation – Vanquish In Vengeance Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Incantation is a band whose name has been recognized for twenty years, but the strength of that name has been challenged by a smattering of lukewarm output and an ever-changing …
Year Of The Goat – Angels’ Necropolis Review
Originally written by Matt Longo First things first: I will not abbreviate Year of the Goat as YOG, as appears on their Facebook page and elsewhere, because YOG is some badass grinding Swiss chaos who …
Witchcraft – Legend Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Witchcraft has been on a break for the past five years, and it’s often a gamble as to whether or not a ‘triumphant return’ album actually ends up yielding those …