Category: Reviews

In Crust We Trust: Vol 33

Kia ora, crüe. I recommend gathering a few provisions before starting this month’s edition of ICWT. I’ve gone long-form (real long), and I’d strongly advise you to stock up on food and water if you …

Home Front – Watch It Die Review

If I were the kind of person who felt the need to justify what I write about on this particular website to some imaginary naysaying ombudsman, then covering the second album from Edmonton, Alberta’s Home …

Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps Review

[cover artwork by the inimitable Dan Seagrave] Hello(ween) all, and a very hellish Halloween to you! Be that this is the designated day of all things dead and frightful, shall we explore something squishy, a …

Stillbirth – Survival Protocol Review

[Cover art by Aghy R Purakusuma]  If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, then it’s the middle of the week. Despite how popular that one Geico commercial was with the camel, real life …

Dysentery – Dejection Chrysalis Review

[Artwork by Hidris] There’s something to embracing simplicity. In a style demanding an arms race toward an endgame of mutually assured absurdity, Dysentery, on Dejection Chrysalis, the band’s newest LP and first excretion in 10 …

Coroner – Dissonance Theory Review

Within the context of human lives, 32 years is a pretty long goddamn time. That’s basically a third of a really long life, so you’d expect people to change quite a bit over that time. …

Nine Treasures – Seeking The Absolute Review

Hopefully you, like me, consider yourself an adventurer on some sort of level. No, not just as it pertains to, say, opting for pepper jack instead of your usual cheddar, but more in a way …

Forced Starvation – Forced Starvation Review

Aotearoa New Zealand grindcore outfit Forced Starvation call the world’s southernmost capital city, Te Whanganui-a-Tara (aka Wellington), home. As a fellow Wellingtonian, I can tell you that things are not exactly peachy in Forced Starvation’s …