Category: Reviews
Graveyard Shifters – High Heels & Broken Bones
Allegedly, Graveyard Shifters’ 2014 EP Brainwashed By Moonshine was paid for with the money earned from recycling the empty alcohol bottles that littered their rehearsal space. I have a few doubts as to the veracity …
High On Fire – Luminiferous Review
I’ll admit I approached High on Fire’s latest, Luminiferous with some trepidation. The band’s last record, De Vermis Mysteriis, was the first High on Fire album that I did not thoroughly enjoy. To my ears …
KEN Mode – Success
If you’re going with that atrocious mustard-and-pastels eyesore of an album cover, you damn well better back it up with some kick-ass sounds… Recorded with notorious noise-rock curmudgeon Steve Albini, Success is the sixth full-length …
Tribulation – The Children Of The Night Review
Originally written by K. Scott Ross. Isn’t it strange how sometimes music seems custom made for our tastes, and yet we don’t enjoy it? Such it was with Swedish retro-death turned progressive gothers Tribulation. Their 2009 …
Faith No More – Sol Invictus Review
In 1995, I graduated high school. I kept in touch with a few of my classmates, but for the most part never saw or spoke to most of them after that. In 2005, they held …
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis Review
The artwork is inscrutable; the production yawns like a bottomless well; the guitars warp and stretch; the album title is Greek and the closing song title Latin: you know it, you love it — Abyssal …
Shape Of Despair – Monotony Fields Review
Shape of Despair’s place within the whole of Finnish funeral doom has long been as third fiddle, never releasing an album with the influence and stature of Skepticism’s Stormcrowfleet or Thergothon’s Stream from the Heavens. …
King Parrot – Dead Set Review
The Aussie goons in King Parrot self-released their debut full-length, 2012’s Bite Your Head Off, and that disc earned them enough of a good reputation that the album was subsequently picked up by Candlelight for …