Category: Reviews
Vukari – Divination Review
Divination I: Laying on the ground. Staring at the heavens. I am sinking. Sinking into this earth. Below which the worms and maggots prepare to devour the rot of my flesh. But here, on the …
Ghoul – Dungeon Bastards Review
Ghoul. Who are they? What are they? Why are they? What can we do about them? They…it…are…is… a travelling metal sideshow. And like a sideshow the performers come and go, the quality depends on how …
Anderson / Stolt – Invention Of Knowledge Review
“See light… Soul light…” I wouldn’t exactly call myself a morning person, but this morning, due to a confluence of abnormal events, I found myself awake at dawn. Sitting on my back porch, watching the …
Astrophobos – Enthroned In Flesh Review
Remnants of Forgotten Horrors, the 2014 full length debut from Sweden’s Astrophobos, really positioned the band as one of the great new acts in the whole Blue Cover Black Metal style—that being the icy melodic …
Blood Incantation – Starspawn Review
Autopsy, Baphomet, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, Mortician, Goreaphobia, Suffocation, Deceased, Lucifer’s Hammer and Radiation Sickness, with the small sticker toward the bottom tossing in Repulsion, Incantation and Disharmonic Orchestra for, I don’t know, dramatic effect. Ten …
Necromancing the Stone – Jewel of the Vile Review
Some things in life are meant to be fun. Sex is one example that immediately comes to mind. Sports are also fun. Some people like to enjoy a brisk walk in the park while others …
Marsh Dweller – The Weight Of Sunlight Review
Marsh Dweller is the solo project of John Owen Kerr, drummer for Louisville’s Seidr, among a few other projects. The fact that Seidr also has amongst its ranks Austin Lunn (Panopticon) ought to be a …
Vanhelgd – Temple Of Phobos Review
The open question: Do Vanhelgd play fashionable death metal unfashionably, or unfashionable death metal fashionably? On the one hand, Vanhelgd’s melodicism and (in particular) the potently reverbed vocals sometimes suggest a kinship with such peripatetic …