Category: Reviews
Christian Mistress – To Your Death Review
Interrogate yourself: love and hate are easy, but tepid enjoyment or moderate disappointment? Your book club doesn’t give a shit about that kind of weak sauce. Point being, it’s a hell of a lot simpler …
Hooded Menace – Darkness Drips Forth Review
Nostalgia is big business. In the time it takes you to read this, probably a dozen bands have formed out of nothing other than the desperate urge to make something new. Their songs – and …
Onirik – Casket Dream Veneration Review
Casket Dream Veneration is the fourth full length from one-man Portuguese black metal act Onirik, and if the quality here is any indication of the past, one would hope that sole member Gonius Rex does …
Vastum – Hole Below Review
You might think that there’s already an above-ample supply of bands paying proper homage to the noble age of less-thrashy death metal that crept to the surface in the late 80s, but the truth of …
Behold! The Monolith – Architects Of The Void Review
The last record by California sludge/stoner group Behold! The Monolith, 2012’s Defender/Redeemist, showed a lot of promise. The LP, which was independently released, really hinted that the band was ready to break out and do some serious …
Ectovoid – Dark Abstraction Review
Ectovoid hails from Birmingham, but not from that Birmingham – not from the birthplace of heavy metal Birmingham, England. Rather, Ectovoid comes from Birmingham, Alabama, the birthplace of… Condoleeza Rice… and Emmylou Harris… and SEC …
Thy Catafalque – Sgùrr Review
My what now? What the falque is a catafalque? In case you’ve never written a dissertation on Western religious burial ritual, or if you’re fan of the band and have wondered but just never mustered …
Clutch – Psychic Warfare Review
A month or so ago I had a conversation with a friend wherein my rock-loving buddy lamented the fact that, generally speaking, the Foo Fighters are hailed as the “best we’ve got right now.” What …