Category: Reviews
Blockheads – This World Is Dead Review
To my knowledge, Blockheads is the only French grindcore band whose name doubles as a Charlie Brown insult. But that’s the only thing silly about this. Formed way back in 1992, not too long after …
Joel Grind – The Yellowgoat Sessions Review
So…what exactly are we supposed to call this thing? Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat? That makes it sound like the band broke up into two rival factions, with the Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat incarnation facing litigation from the …
Sulphur Aeon – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide Review
In the interest of full disclosure, it must be admitted that I can be quite susceptible to the seductions of great cover art. In the case of Germany’s Sulphur Aeon, the glorious art that adorns …
Grand Supreme Blood Court – Bow Down Before The Blood Court
Grand Supreme Blood Court’s debut, Bow Down Before The Blood Court, marks the return to recording of former Asphyx guitarist Eric Daniels. The band is the brainchild of Daniels and co-guitarist Alwin Zuur — Zuur …
Eight Bells – The Captain’s Daughter Review
My guess is that we’re about three years away from doctors revealing the truth that over-exposure to Tetrabromobisphenol-A in our computers significantly adds to intensified OCD behaviors in the greater human population. More and more …
Saille – Ritu Review
As a style, symphonic black metal is generally theatrical, grandiose, and (without necessarily implying fault) often quite pompous. It isn’t exactly a sub-genre known for scaling it back. That made Irreversible Decay, the debut from …
Valborg – Nekrodepression Review
German (and Central European) metal has always contained a notable strain of off-kilter innovators. Sure, the careers of Destruction, Kreator, and Sodom have been staked on aggressive but mostly straightforward thrash, but one also must …
Suffocation – Pinnacle Of Bedlam Review
Let’s get one thing clear: Suffocation is, without a doubt, one of the greatest death metal bands in the history of our rotten, festering world. This is, as the Dothraki say, known. But consistent and wholly …