Category: Reviews
The Keening – Devotion Review
[Cover artwork by Marald van Haasteren] Objectionable confession from the gate: The 2023 debut from The Keening, Little Bird, didn’t get a lot of attention from me. I feel kind of awful admitting that for …
Godflesh – Decay Review
Godflesh is pain. Regardless of whether Justin Broadrick and G.C. Green are plumbing the industrial depths they invented on their earliest records or hitting harder with danceable grooves and beats, this band is an expression …
Massteron – Second In The Spheres Review
[Cover Art by Francesco Gemelli] I need to make a confession to you, my friends. Lately, I’ve been taking a little break from pouring the sound of heavy metal into my ears. I can explain. …
Autumnfall – The Archaic Sins Review
Friend, here’s a truth that I hope you will carry with you, especially if you ever feel even a twinge of guilt or shame about being unfamiliar with a particular album, or about being not …
Mutation – Esoteric Order Of Debauchery Review
Let’s just blow the lid right off this review from the start. When you absolutely, positively have to rip everything to shreds, only a band like Sweden’s Mutation will do. Debut Esoteric Order of Debauchery …
Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves Review
[Cover art by Noah Cutter Meihoff] It’s been more than 40 years since Watchtower really ushered in the age of tech metal with their debut Energetic Disassembly, and in all those years, the techy arms …
Snet – V Bazinach Vedomi Review
[Album artwork by Tomáš Mitura] What I love most about Sněť is that it dips its toes into but never fully commits to doom. That is, Sněť is not a death/doom band. Rather, Sněť is …
Atomic Aggressor – The Occult Forces Review
Here’s one for the “two things can be true” files: Death metal, in its purest, most feral, regular-assed form, can be the most thrilling, primally satisfying music out there, AND Death metal, in its purest, …