Category: Reviews
Labyrinthine Heirs – Labyrinthine Heirs Review
When a band’s influences are on the stranger side, can that band still claim to be strange, or are they just pulling from the weirdos that came before? Well, in the case of the Texas …
Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries Review
The one and only concession I will make to any Cradle of Filth haters out there in the course of this review is that a pretty decent burn on Dani Filth’s get-up in the promo …
Throne – That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death Review
There’s an old Cherokee proverb my grandma used to paraphrase: Inside each of us, there are two wolves. One is evil, representing anger, envy, greed, arrogance, resentment, lies, and ego. The other is good, representing …
Rwake – The Return Of Magik Review
[Cover artwork by Loni Gillum of Minerva’s Menagerie and RWAKE] There are lyrics in “The Return of Magik,” the title track of Rwake’s sixth album and first in almost 14 years, with variable payloads. Two …
Tower – Let There Be Dark Review
[Cover artwork by Jared Fleming] “One of the great things about New York is that if you ever need dead baby eels, you can get them here. Also, there is opera.” – Dave Barry Full …
Dragon Skull – Chaos Fire Vengeance Review
When was the last time you felt powerful? I’m not talking about anything grandiose or world-historical; think of a time you opened the pickle jar on the first try, or a time when you did …
Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning Review
Absolutes are dangerous. The rhetorical logic of “all or nothing” is a violent assault on the beautiful heterogeneity of the world. Taking any position to its extreme endpoint risks gross oversimplification and infantilizing generalization. That …
Nite – Cult Of The Serpent Sun Review
[cover artwork by Adam Vick of Dark Meditation] Everyone you know and love is a shambling whole comprised of smaller and smaller parts. You can drill down through the cutaneous, into the tissue, within the …