Category: Reviews
Blast Rites: Sulfuric Cautery – Killing Spree Review
If you’re one of those poor, unfortunate souls who can’t get into grindcore because “it’s just nonstop blasting and grunts” and “the songs fly by so fast it all blurs together,” then… well, Sulfuric Cautery …
Castrator – Coronation Of The Grotesque Review
[Cover art by Jon Zig] Despite forming in 2013, this NYC-by-way-of-global members quartet didn’t fire off their debut, Defiled In Oblivion, until 2022. Rather than continue to roll with a slow build, they’ve struck while …
Deliquesce – Saviour / Enslaver Review
Melbourne’s Deliquesce debuted with monstrous intent on 2023’s Cursed with Malevolence, an album so stuffed with brutal/technical death goodness that you’d have thought they were flies on the wall for the Pierced from Within sessions. …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2025 So Far, Vol. 3
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2025 So Far, Vol. 2
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2025 So Far, Vol. 1
Happy summer, folks! It’s become tradition here around LR HQ to spend part of July catching up with the things we’ve missed throughout the year, or at least the things we really dig that we …
Car Bomb – Tiles Whisper Dreams Review
[Cover art by Greg Kubacki] Sometimes, one of the greatest hooks a band can have is simply how they sound. Look to a group like Meshuggah, whose thick, hefty and elastic guitar is often copied …
Helms Deep – Chasing The Dragon Review
I would say Helms Deep is a band that needs no introduction, but the fact that they ought not need one doesn’t quite get us there. So brief introduction you will get. Helms Deep is, …