Category: Reviews
Six Feet Under – Undead Review
Listening to Six Feet Under, particularly during a year in which Cannibal Corpse has also released a new album, is a bit like making a political statement: It comes down to an intensely personal calculus, …
Barren Earth – The Devil’s Resolve Review
Originally written by Matt Longo I appreciate the good intentions behind supergroups, but they have such a stigma of “cash-in” or “side project” inevitably tethered along. In my formative years as a music lover, earliest …
Royal Thunder – CVI Review
Royal Thunder’s self-titled EP, released late in 2010, was an unassumingly excellent first statement from a young band bristling with potential. The Atlanta, Georgia band’s earnest, soulful take on Southern-inflected rock with a rippling undercurrent …
Sonata Arctica – Stones Grow Her Name Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Sonata Arctica has always been the kind of “metal” you’d hear playing at Disney World (or at least in the Disney store), but I’ll admit that I thoroughly enjoyed 2004’s …
General Surgery – A Collection Of Depravation Review
A Collection Of Depravation rounds up most of General Surgery’s post-reactivation EPs and splits, along with assorted other gurgling goodies for the de(a)dicated fan. Relapse recently reissued the band’s semi-classic 1991 Necrology EP with some …
Wodensthrone – Curse Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Wodensthrone‘s Loss was the definition of a breakthrough debut. There was nothing formative or primordial about it — this was the sound of a band fully prepared to make a …
Nunslaughter – Hells Unholy Fire Review
Nunslaughter poses something of an interesting question – in their twenty-five year existence, they’ve offered up approximately 118 releases, be those LPs or splits or EPs or live albums or compilations or demos or DVDs …
Ides Of Gemini – Constantinople Review
Los Angeles trio Ides of Gemini is nothing if not evocative. For this particular listener, Constantinople conjures images of a caravan trudging into some unknowable wilderness, wrapped in the gauzy patina of memory. The music …