Category: Features
Tuska Open Air Diaries – Sunday 7/4/2010
Originally written by Juho Mikkonen For your average dickface-cum-festival-goer the third and final day at Tuska is not usually that much about resurrection of biblical proportions. In lieu of getting a new life or a …
Tuska Open Air Diaries – Saturday 7/3/2010
Originally written by Juho Mikkonen As the first day of the revelry finally culminated in Devin Townsend’s mesmerizing Ziltoid-spectacle, our quartet of first-string journalism was well on its way to reach objectionable levels of self-imposed …
Tuska Open Air Diaries – Friday 7/2/2010
Originally written by Juho Mikkonen For the uninitiated: Tuska Open Air is the biggest and oldest running extreme metal festival in Finland. By no means am I trying to say that it’s also the most …
An Interview With Torture Division
Originally written by Erik Thomas. In my many years of metal journalism, I’ve met and interviewed numerous folks. None are more entertaining than Lord K Philipson, he of The Project Hate MCMXCIX and the now-defunct God Among Insects. With …
An Interview With Alcest – Luminous Dimensions
Originally written by Patrick Rennick. One of metal’s greatest strengths as a stalwart sonic form is the enduring musical backbone laid down by its original innovators. Within the major metal genres,characteristic musical elements exist. For …
Ikuinen Kaamos – Not Yet At Closure
originally written by Juho Mikkonen If someone was to write a book about metal bands and their bad experiences with record labels, that someone would have to be prepared to compile a whole anthology. Almost …
Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder Review
Calling Buzz Osborne eccentric is like saying Tiger Woods is wound slightly tight. It’s among the grossest understatements in the long and storied history of gross understatements. This is, after all, a close friend of …
Back Into The Brawl – Same Pit, Different Day
Originally written by Sasha Horn I spent a large portion of my youth dancing like an asshole when I wasn’t head-banging, and there were times that it resulted in face-plants on hardwood or concrete (1996, Murphy’s Law, …