Category: Reviews
Blood Worship – Death’s Omnipotence Review
FAST RITES: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. Sweden’s Blood Worship comes to you from the mind, guitar, and voice of Martin Andersson, also of Astrophobos. And if you’ve spent time with that band, you’ll know …
Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods Review
In a perfect world that embraces the ludicrous and terrifying with equal enthusiasm, everyone has a guy similar to Olve “Abbath” Eikemo in their crew of friends. Well, at least the version of Abbath the …
Funeral Mist – Hekatomb Review
Few would argue that death metal has enjoyed an impressively strong run recently; best-of lists from recent years have been dominated by it, and death metal has already left a conspicuous mark on 2018, with …
Battleroar – Codex Epicus Review
At the intersection of Blind Guardian and Manilla Road lies Greece’s Battleroar—epic paeans to battle and heroes, historical tales of Ye Olden Days, infectious guitar leads, soaring melodies, bombastic choirs… Codex Epicus is the band’s …
Urfaust – The Constellatory Practice Review
If you want to get all scientific about it, music is just physics. “Just physics,” of course, is a silly statement, as physics is the vast study of about everything, and the tiny vibrations that …
Lizzy Borden – My Midnight Things Review
I’m an old fart now—I remember the late 1980s. I remember running across Lizzy Borden when they were featured in Penelope Spheeris’ classic The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part 2: The Metal Years, prancing about …
Ribspreader – The Van Murders Part 2 Review
Axl Rose famously took a decade to complete Guns N’ Roses’ comeback album, Chinese Democracy. By contrast, in the first six full months of 2018, Rogga Johansson will have released five full-length albums… and an …
DeathgraVe – So Real, It’s Now Review
If you’ve spent ample time with a discerning ear placed to the underground of the extreme music world located on the western seaboard of these United States, perhaps you’ve come across DeathgraVe. Then again, maybe …