Category: Reviews
Burning Love – Rotten Thing To Say Review
Canada’s Burning Love is perhaps most notable for featuring the vocal and lyrical mischief of former Cursed frontman Chris Colohan. With second album Rotten Thing to Say, however, Burning Love ought to also become notable …
High On Fire – The Art Of Self Defense (Reissue) Review
If you’re thinking that you’ve seen this before, meaning a reissue of High On Fire’s debut The Art Of Self Defense, you’d be right. In 2001, Tee Pee Records reissued the album with a couple …
Aldebaran – Embracing The Lightless Depths Review
Portland’s Aldebaran has progressively schlepped its overall sound further and further away from the more ‘sludgy’ roots that bound their impressive 2007 debut into a fully functioning funereal death doom band bent on depressing the …
Horseback – Half Blood Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Jenks Miller’s Horseback is a project distinct to our times. That’s not to say the North Carolina-based one-man unit is a definitive voice in 21st century underground music, or even a particularly excellent …
Satanic Bloodspraying – At The Mercy Of Satan Review
Some bands are born great, some achieve greatness, and some thrust their greatness upon any and all unsuspecting listeners with a crude, gleeful abandon born of palpable malevolence. Mysterious Bolivian newcomersSatanic Bloodspraying play a supercharged …
Tank – War Nation Review
“I guess you had to be there.” Coming up during the peak of the NWOBHM movement, Tank hit hard with their debut Filth Hounds of Hades but stagnated after that, disbanding in 1989 only to …
From Ashes Rise – Rejoice The End / Rage Of Sanity Review
As part of an ongoing obsessive effort to completely corner the market on any and all things related to crusty punk, Southern Lord offers up this 7” EP from the re-risen From Ashes Rise. Originally formed …
Ereb Altor – Gastrike Review
Originally written by Matt Longo As I imported Gastrike into iTunes, the genre came up as “Viking Doom Metal”, when their last album The End registers as “Epic Viking Doom Metal”… so what does this …