Category: Reviews
Split Cranium – Split Cranium Review
A fairly normal thing to do upon receiving a new album from a new band, aside from just listening to the damn thing, is figure out who’s behind all the instruments. Okay, so we have …
Unleashed – Odalheim Review
Since his unceremonious ouster from the seminal Nihilist, Johnny Hedlund has led Unleashed through eleven studio albums in twenty-three years. They’ve always consciously stood a few steps away from their Swedish compatriots – avoiding the …
Revel In Flesh – Deathevokation Review
The name of the band is taken from a song by Entombed / Nihilist. The title of the album is taken from a song by Dismember / Carnage, albeit with a “k” where a “c” …
Wolfbrigade – Damned Review
Southern Lord has been cornering the market on all things crusty and d-beat-y of late, so it was little surprise when they announced that they’d signed long-running Swedish act Wolfbrigade. Starting out in the mid …
Necroblaspheme – XXVI: The Deeper, The Better Review
Originally written by Doug Moore. Most metal bands build themselves out of a shared stockpile of visual, lingual, and musical tropes. Accordingly, you can usually tell a lot about a metal band by its name. …
Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65 Review
The level of build-up and promotion behind the release of Lillie: F-65 is proof enough that doom is undoubtedly experiencing a level of renown many veterans of the genre never dreamed they’d see. It’s a …
Pseudogod – Deathwomb Catechesis Review
originally written by Chris McDonald As the death metal sea has parted, with old school on one side and new on the other, a small but notable sect of bands has arisen and strived to …
Cynic – The Portal Tapes Review
When these tracks were initially recorded in 1995, they weren’t intended as a Cynic album – they were, in fact, intended as a fairly significant departure from that band’s early days of Floridian prog-death. These …