Category: Reviews
Keep It Short, Stupid – EP Round-Up: October 2014
Heavy metal’s highway is stacked ten miles deep with bumper-to-bumper EPs, demos and diversely-inched short-players. In an effort to help our readers navigate the traffic, we offer an ongoing and sporadic editorial designed to shine …
Exodus – Blood In Blood Out Review
In his review of Hatriot’s mostly forgettable Heroes Of Origin, my erstwhile compatriot Zach Duvall hit upon one fundamental truth about Exodus: In the absence of Baloff, Exodus needs Zetro, and Zetro needs Exodus. The …
Mare Cognitum – Phobos Monolith Review
Mare Cognitum is the sole project of Santa Ana’s Jacob Buczarski, and while one-man bands are not exactly an oddity within the blackened realms, rarely are things so meticulously composed, arranged, and performed as on Phobos …
Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died Review
I’ve been looking forward to a new Sanctuary album for a long time. It’s been twenty-five years since the last one, since 1989’s Into The Mirror Black. Mirror and its predecessor, the Dave Mustaine-produced Refuge …
Rigor Mortis – Slaves To The Grave Review
The death of Mike Scaccia in late 2012 was a terrible loss, for multiple reasons. Amid the obvious myriad personal tragedies attached to someone’s death, one of those reasons was that the classic line-up of …
Pig Destroyer – Mass & Volume Review
Mass & Volume was originally released in 2013 as a “limited edition” EP, only available as a Bandcamp digital download. All of the proceeds from that initial offering went to the family of the late …
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry Review
Throughout their groundbreaking career, Blut Aus Nord has shown an ever-increasing tendency to reveal different musical faces through sets of album series or groupings. Most notably, the 777 trilogy amplified the band’s blackened Godflesh traits, …
Swallowed – Lunarterial Review
<a href=”http://swallowed.bandcamp.com/album/lunarterial” data-mce-href=”http://swallowed.bandcamp.com/album/lunarterial”>Lunarterial by Swallowed</a>