Category: Reviews
Darkest Era – Severance Review
Here’s a melancholy truth: Most lusters fade. Sparks cool. Sheens dull. Some things, though? They stick with you. Such has been the case with The Last Caress of Light, Darkest Era’s 2011 debut album. Too …
Spectral Lore – III Review
“No eternity was ever promised to you, child…” Music that is existential in nature has an immense tendency to transport listeners into its own world. Like dead flies sucked through a vacuum, we are, if …
Insomnium – Shadows Of he Dying Sun Review
Insomnium has long held the status as being one of the best melodic death metal bands to not emerge directly or indirectly from Sweden’s Gothenburg scene. While always owing a ton to Dark Tranquillity, these …
Forest Of Tygers – Bruises Review
For the most part, I am a fan of hybrids. Keep the hulkish corn and a huge portion of the other genetic hybrids away (apart from the Liger, obviously), but much of the rest of …
Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell This is an album about nothing. Wait…how can that be? This is The Necrotic Manifesto, after all. Setting aside the book of Death Metal English for a moment, let’s pick …
Vanhelgd – Relics Of Sulphur Salvation Review
Though it might seem counterintuitive, there’s actually a bold calculus at work for a band digging in the blood-soaked trenches of a well-established style. Artistically speaking, the stakes are higher but the payoff is lower. …
Planet Of Zeus – Vigilante Review
originally written by Erik Highter You’d have to be some sort of cretin not to dig the Athenian band Planet of Zeus. On their two prior albums, the Greek band has shown that Clutch translates …
Black Anvil – Hail Death Review
And by “a man,” Harry means a group of men that call themselves Black Anvil. Hail Death, the band’s third full length, is a prime example of a band biting off way more than their …