Category: Reviews
Atriarch – Ritual Of Passing Review
Portland’s harrowing, blackened, gloomy deathrock outfit Atriarch announced itself quite suddenly with 2011’s debut Forever the End. As good as that first album was, though, it finds itself happily eclipsed in all respects by the …
Voivod – Target Earth Review
Originally written by Matt Longo Every Voivod album is a career-defining event — each with its own aura of life and death, tribulations and triumph, exploration and evolution. Considering my penchant for the weird, I …
Destruction – Spiritual Genocide Review
The Butcher’s back once more… Spiritual Genocide is album number thirteen for these German thrashers, and its release coincides with their thirtieth anniversary. Though they may be getting a bit long in them, when they …
Attic – The Invocation Review
Birth in a cemetery or GTFO. One of the key factors any long-time fan of King Diamond will quickly highlight when attempting to explain their indestructible enthusiasm for the man’s varied works is the inherent …
Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Sludge is one of the laziest, most stagnant subgenres in heavy metal today. Plagued by predictable compositions and gormless bellowing, it’s been mired in an amateurish rut for years. Sure, …
Rotten Sound – Species At War Review
Species At War is eight minutes of rapid-fire, rabid, and fiery grinding, a six-song stopgap to fan the flames before the next full-length firestorm from a band that’s currently at the top of the grindcore …
Deceptor – Chains Of Delusion Review
When this six-track EP first fell into my lap, I expected Deceptor to be more of a trad metal beast. Chains Of Delusion is released on Shadow Kingdom Records, for one, a label responsible for …
Witch Cross – Fit For Fight (Reissue) Review
I suppose if you’re only gonna release one record, you’d better make it a winner. And if time and legend mostly overlook it, well… I guess that’s just how it goes sometimes… For Denmark’s Witch …