Category: Reviews
Total Violation – Speed Dealers Review
[Cover artwork by Trash Bandicoot] Aotearoa New Zealand is often trumpeted as a clean, green utopia. However, the truth is, plenty of New Zealand is a rotting dungheap. In fact, here’s a recent story from …
Diamonds & Rust: Cannibal Corpse Celebrates 20 Years Of Finding Out The Time To Kill Is NOW
[Cover art by Vince Locke – Duh] KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! My apologies if that triggered your PTSD for that time you started your day with a cup of coffee and a pressing of the play button on Kill, …
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild Review
To tell you about Egregore’s second album, I’d like to first talk about wildness. If you traipse back to heavy metal’s origins, it was about wildness, right? “Helter Skelter,” Blue Cheer’s take on “Summertime Blues,” …
Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi Review
Stoner rock is fun. Drinking beer is fun. So a stoner band titling their new album with an adjective for the taste of their favorite beer kind of just makes perfect sense. Karakuchi is kind …
Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface Review
[Cover art by Timbul ‘Bvllmetalart’ Cahyono] Here’s the logline on Screams from Beneath the Surface, the seventh full-length album from Florida mainstays Monstrosity: it’s a calorically dense slab of death metal that doesn’t even attempt …
Midnatt – Skräckfylld Förtjusning Review
In case the recent surplus of hair raising releases delivered via today’s heavy metal torchwielders (Vultures Vengeance, Morax, Tower, Kuenring just to name a few) has led us to believe it’s not that hard to …
Desert Collider – Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity Review
Did you know that the English words “trope” and “tropical” share the same etymology? Hello, and I’m sorry to welcome you to this heavy metal album review. It’s true, though! Both words come from the …
Mega Colossus – Watch Out! Review
Some thoughts that crossed my mind as I listened to Watch Out!, the latest from Raleigh N.C.’s Mega Colossus. I can’t wait until it’s warm enough to run through the sprinkler and play “Minja Turtles” …