Category: Reviews
Nuclear Death Terror – Chaos Reigns Review
In some ways (perhaps in many), it may seem equal parts obvious and absurd, over-reaching and lazy to describe a band whose name contains the words “nuclear” and “death” as “apocalyptic,” and it’s at least …
Evoken – Atra Mors Review
Summon a forest in your mind. Walk in that forest for a long time, and feel the warmth. It’s a cold kind of warmth, the kind that never seems to rise up much past the …
Blacklodge – MachinatioN Review
Rarely are my critical faculties so easily bamboozled as when it comes to black / industrial metal. Whether by virtue of some chromosomal defect or suppressed trauma or just general dumbness, there’s simply no genre …
Prototype – Catalyst Review
Seems like everyone and their mutter is re-hashing classic Teutonic thrash metal these days. That’s just peachy, as I love In the Sign of Evil as much as the next guy, but a huge part …
Hypnosia – Horror Infernal Review
To those who are familiar with Hypnosia, no introduction is needed. For those who aren’t, a brief one will have to do. Formed in Sweden in 1995 by some relative youngsters, they put out a …
Cairn – Raise The Cairn Review
It’s always nice when the one-man side project doesn’t end up sounding like a wafer-thin version of the full ensemble. Case in point: Cairn, the sole creation of Samu Rahn, guitarist in Chicago’s prog/doomster act …
OM – Advaitic Songs Review
Originally written by Matt Longo Associate something with sex and it will stay with you forever. My first exposure to OM was via Pilgrimage back in 2007, and I must say that everything combined — …
Binah – Hallucinating In Resurrecture Review
Though there are exceptions, by and large, the old-school death metal revival of the past half-decade or so has been primarily divided into two camps: those bands attempting to revive the spirit of Sunlight Studios, …