Category: Reviews
Coffin Texts – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual Review
To get the inevitable out of the way: yes, Coffin Texts is a death metal band with a lyrical and thematic focus on ancient Egypt, so unless you’ve been living under some remarkably insulated rock …
Deadborn – Mayhem Maniac Machine Review
For better or worse, Mayhem Maniac Machine sounds almost exactly like its cover art, which features a human skeleton fused with a vaguely steampunk-looking killing machine: syringes and bolted joints, a finger gear-locked on the …
Stormcrow – Enslaved In Darkness (Reissue) Review
I came to the Stormcrow party around the time of their 2006 split with Sanctum, and it was something of love at first sound – in fact, I could listen to this kind of thing …
Dreaming Dead – Midnightmares Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell If anything. Dreaming Dead screams dedication. On their self-released second album, this trio attempts to steamroll with the same thrashy, melodic death metal formula that was forged on their debut. …
Nether Regions – Into the Breach Review
Portland, Oregon’s Nether Regions does a good job capturing the same bare-chested, club wielding Motorhead-on-speed — er, more speed — roaring quasi-sludge metal perfected by High on Fire. That said, if that’s all they had going for them, Into the Breach would be …
Bible Of The Devil – For The Love Of Thugs And Fools Review
Of the four previous Bible Of The Devil offerings reviewed on this site, none scored below an 8. Those high scores were deserved, because those records were fun as hell; they were raucous rock’n’roll romps …
West Of Hell – Spiral Empire Review
It’s like, how much more green could this album cover be, and the answer is “not much.” Not much more green. Also be hard-pressed to be much uglier, honestly… But let’s not judge from the …
Witch Mountain – Cauldron Of The Wild Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay 2011’s South of Salem was a grooving and gritty doom record surging with soul, and while it occasionally dragged its feet when it should have been stomping through the badlands, …