Zach Duvall’s Top 20 of 2010
What a year… I don’t know if I just paid more attention in 2010 due to free time or if this much stuff really did blow me away, but I never remember listening to and …
Revelations Of Rain – Emanation Of Hatred Review
A masked sky. An immeasurably vast landscape. One lone creature soaring above the earth, confused by the encroaching heavens and rumbling chaos from below. Shifting terrain scatters trees, beasts, life. A great spire of rock …
Martolea – Noaptea Dihãniilor Review
Martolea is the one-man black metal project from Alin Drimus, known perhaps not by name but certainly by musical presence as the wooden flute and frula player on Negura Bunget’s already-legendary OM album. After releasing a …
Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits Review
If you are one of the few visitors to this site who has somehow avoided our near-cronyism levels of praise for The Lord Weird Slough Feg, fear not, as a necessary description and history follow. …
Diskreet – Engage The Mechanicality Review
Diskreet is a technical death metal five-piece hailing from Topeka, Kansas, presenting here their full-length debut, Engage the Mechanicality. Certainly students of the modern game, they sweep, chug, blast, gurgle, squeal, and growl their way through …
Heathendom – Nescience Review
Nescience was/is the full-length debut from Greek doom/trad/power/smorgasbord five-piece Heathendom. Originally released in 2008, Metal On Metal Records is giving it a fresh issuing here in 2010 with one big spice-up (more on that later). Despite …
Amorphis – Magic & Mayhem – Tales From The Early Years Review
In my review of Negura Bunget’s Masiestrit, I ran down a list of possible reasons why bands choose to re-record earlier material. In that case, the new version was well-justified, being a reimagining of lesser-known …
Children Of Technology – It’s Time To Face The Doomsday Review
At the corner of Metal-As-Fuck Avenue and Shit-Eating-Grin Boulevard lies the more humorous/tongue-in-cheek side of the thrash/crossover style, which for over 20 years has been giving overly-pompous heavy metal and self-righteous hardcore punk the enema …