Category: Reviews
Resurgency – False Enlightenment Review
Originally written by Ian Chainey One of the great slash shitty things about metal, the double necked flying V guitar of dual-phalanges philosomosizing, is how it deals with the passage of time. In this particular …
Grave – Endless Procession Of Souls Reveiw
Entombed is AWOL, and Dismember is kaput, but Grave just keeps on trucking. The band was never quite as popular as its fellow Stockholm sound pioneers, but it has certainly been the most consistent of …
Master – The New Elite Review
For nearly thirty years, Paul Speckmann and some form of Master have been releasing quality thrash- and d-beat-tinted death metal. Alongside the likes of Death and Possessed, Master is one of the bands directly responsible …
Krallice – Years Past Matter Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Maybe we’re at odds with these sounds because we’re not sure where they come from. Maybe we think we know, though. Maybe we hear the decades of refinement in guitarist …
Midnight – Complete And Total Hell Review
Listening to Midnight’s full length debut Satanic Royalty was like getting beaten in the temple with King Diamond’s old bone mic and loving every skull-crunching delivery. Plain and simple: The album rocked. ROCKED. The Venömhead …
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 …