Category: Reviews
Kataklysm – Epic – The Poetry Of War Review
Ty Brookman’s take: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Canada? Of course, the foking infamous bacon. Canada’s claim to fame, the Canadian crown jewel. The final compliment to my …
Mournful Congregation – The Unspoken Hymns Review
We’ve already seen superb releases drop from all of metal’s varied branches this year. But when the dust eventually settles, 2011’s most celebrated sub-genres will be those that give a solemn nod to a very …
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Everything Review
Lost, the 2010 debut from Dutch act An Autumn for Crippled Children, was a pleasant surprise: a moody, expansive, atmospheric and dynamic album that threaded the line safely between depressive black metal, doomy dirges and …
Esoteric – Paragon Of Dissonance Review
Funeral doom is, in most appreciable ways, a niche within a niche. Forcing the listener to bear witness to a cripplingly slow march to oblivion is not, it must be said, the easiest way to …
Riot – Immortal Soul Review
Don’t look now, but Johnny’s back again… With Immortal Soul, Riot’s Thundersteel line-up reunites, some twenty-three years later. And with those words, probably about ten percent of you got really excited, and rightfully so, because …
Megadeth – Thirteen Review
The narrative arc of Megadeth’s career over the past decade has been your standard, steady upward climb from a series of miscalculations and baldly embarrassing albums. With their career arguably hitting a soul-deflating nadir with …
Lonely Kamel – Dust Devil Review
Norway’s Lonely Kamel is clearly on a mission to play against type, eager to prove with this, the band’s third album, that if Americans can ply the frost-bittenest of black metal from some of the …
Craft – Void Review
originally written by Chris McDonald I’ve always found Craft to be a good-not-great example of black metal’s less speedy side, although even that tenuous reputation was tested by 2005’s utterly bland outing, Fuck the Universe. …