Diamonds & Rust: Cryptopsy’s Blasphemy Made Flesh Celebrates 30 Years Of Getting Thrown Out Of Windows
[Cover art by Dragon Design (RIP)] Developed From Memories of Blood By 1994, death metal was a firmly established genre with expected parameters in place for what did and did not qualify. In fact, one …
Bedsore – Dreaming The Strife For Love Review
[Cover art by Denis Forkas Kostromitin] Bands often telegraph when significant shifts in their sound are imminent. No one who truly paid attention to Ghost Reveries and Watershed was particularly shocked by the full dive into 70’s …
Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno Review
[Cover art by Harshanand Singh] The heavy metal mascot is a wonderful thing and one that few modern bands seem to have made work for them. Yoth Iria, however, has enlisted the visual assistance of …
Carnosus – Wormtales Review
[Cover art by Timon Kokott] It’s fair to be a bit nervous about quality whenever a band releases full-length albums in back-to-back years. That quick-turn approach can leave you wondering if inspiration was truly firing …
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia Review
[Cover art by Kikyz1313] Prolificacy is an oft-lauded trait for bands in the metal world. We are constant consumers on the lookout for more tasty morsels to glut our filthy musical maws, so bands that …
Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology Of Nought Review
[Cover art by Dmitriy Egorov] Ontology of Nought is a deeply overwhelming album. You probably already knew that, though, looking at that title, the fact that one song has 17 words in its name, or if …
The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude Review
[Cover art by Paolo Girardi] The passing of Trevor Strnad will forever be linked to Servitude as it’s the first album to be released by The Black Dahlia Murder since that terrible day. However, I would like …
Pyrrhon – Exhaust Review
[Cover art by Caroline Harrison] Unpredictability is a rather tricksy little hobbit of a thing in life. It’s awful when it comes to being in a bathroom, giving birth, or car maintenance. When it comes …