Category: Reviews
Messa – The Spin Review
[cover artwork by Nico Vascellari] Every artist worth a speck is destined to release at least one “divisive” record – you’ve heard a few in your day, I’m sure. The heavy-heeled stagger into stuffy acoustic …
Industrial Puke – Alive To No Avail Review
One of the greatest things about heavy music is that despite its name, there are tunes under its umbrella to fit any mood or preferred listening experience. There are enough weirdos from every walk of …
Doomsday – Never Known Peace Review
Sharing current and former members with San Jose’s Ripped To Shreds, Oakland’s Doomsday is comparable to that band, not so much musically (or really, almost not at all musically, if you split metallic hairs like …
Teitanblood – From The Visceral Abyss Review
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in …
Panthalassan – From The Shallows Of The Mantle Review
[Front cover artwork by Nightjar Illustration / Adam Burke] Confession right from the jump: I am hypercritical about one-person metal acts. I do not, however, consider myself a complete ramrod about the designation as a …
Cartilage – Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology Review
If the band name and the album title and the album cover and songs like “Frothed Vomit Slosh” and “Globs Of Glimmering Gore” didn’t clue you in already… well, what we’ve got here is goregrind, …
Labyrinthine Heirs – Labyrinthine Heirs Review
When a band’s influences are on the stranger side, can that band still claim to be strange, or are they just pulling from the weirdos that came before? Well, in the case of the Texas …
Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries Review
The one and only concession I will make to any Cradle of Filth haters out there in the course of this review is that a pretty decent burn on Dani Filth’s get-up in the promo …