Category: Reviews
Atomic Aggressor – Sights Of Suffering Review
Friends, I have gone on record as a doofus, and I do not intend to recant. Generally speaking, I am no great defender of musical orthodoxies: I like folk in my doom, ambient in my …
Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat Review
There are days when I think Napalm Death is my favorite band. Realistically, I know this to be untrue: I’ve known since I was a teen that Queen is both my favorite band and The …
Visigoth – The Revenant King Review
VISIGOTH! The mortal enemy of Invisijock? Of course not. Long before the goths became the darkly clad fugitives banished to the murkiest recesses of our high school commons, they provided a suffix for the Germanic …
Zero Down – No Limit To The Evil Review
A year or so ago, maybe two, I was sitting around the office working diligently at appearing to work diligently when my buddy Erik comes in and says, “This looks like something you’d like,” and …
Dysangelium – Thánatos Áskesis Review
Originally written by K. Scott Ross. Over its twenty-odd years of existence, “black metal” has grown to be a large and frankly confusing genre. When somebody says a band is “black metal,” it could mean …
Dwell – Vermin And Ashes Review
Despite Vermin and Ashes being the full length debut from Denmark’s dastardly doom/deathers Dwell, the band brings with it a curious type of minor underground pedigree. Among their ranks are members of such bands as …
Grimoire – L’Aorasie Des Spectres Rêveurs Review
If you listen to enough of a certain style of music, it can become difficult to articulate exactly what separates the good from the great. This is why, in part, anyone who tries to tell …
StarGazer – A Merging To The Boundless Review
It’s been four years since StarGazer released A Great Work of Ages, and the CD still hasn’t left my truck. Granted, there are a lot of CDs in my truck, but A Great Work of Ages has, …