Category: Features
Outre Monde – Vespero And Cold Womb Descent
Welcome to the second edition of Outré Monde. In this ongoing series of discussions, Erik Highter and Craig Hayes will be hurling Bandcamp recommendations at each other, with the aim of recommending some new tunes …
Weird Sunday – How To Write A Review: Three Easy Steps
Originally written by Ian Chainey More Skull Fist: Facebook Youtube Buy Chasing the Dream at the NoiseArt Records Shop. Intro/Outro Music By: The Sequence of Prime
5Q5A – Morgue Of Saints
The loneliness of the solo strummer? Disagreed, bud. Some men and women can turn their ten fingers into whole orchestras. Montrealer Elliot C. and his instrumental strain of sandy boogie, Morgue of Saints, is one …
Spock Says to Chill Out – Illogical Resentment Towards Maturation
Let’s get one thing clear right from the beginning. A great number of metal fans have always resented bands that decide to explore, expand, and mature, as if their Amish views expect musicians to stop …
Against The Grain – An Interview With Oz
originally written by Juho Mikkonen This week we take the time machine all the way back to the formative years of Finnish underground metal (it was either this or travel back in time to find …
Mainstreaming Metal – Part 3: Fraud (The Home Team)
originally written by Craig Hayes This is the third installment in a five-part series. In Mainstreaming Metal, LR scribe Craig Hayes looks back on his experiences as a beacon for underground heavy metal within the …
80s Essentials – Volume Eight
Welcome to Volume Eight of The Most Essential Albums of the Eighties. Previous volumes are available here. What’s in store this week? Just another ten examples of the wild diversity of 80s metal: straight-up heavy …
5Q5A – Salem’s Pot
originally written by Erik Higher & Craig Hayes Wait, did you anticipate receiving serious, mini-essay, SAT-acing answers from an all-caps DOOMER named Salem’s Pot? One that has mastered the stomach-rub/head-pat of dropping the needle on Dopethrone …