Category: Reviews
Myrath – Tales Of The Sands Review
Tunisia’s principal metal export Myrath is back with another album that wallows in a bland lather of Orphaned Land’s Middle Eastern progressive metal and fairly standard if muscular power metal. The ripping neoclassical/medieval power metal …
Vader – Welcome To The Morbid Reich Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Vader has combined blistering speed and technicality with memorable songwriting for almost thirty years. Their ninth studio album, Welcome To The Morbid Reich, shows the band in fine form with …
Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction Review
Jordan Campbell’s take: The Devin Townsend Project’s first two excursions, by most accounts, were resounding successes. Ki stands as one of the most adventurous and unique albums of Townsend’s career, and Addicted’s boisterousness is still …
Mordbrand – Necropsychotic Review
Swedish death metal band Mordbrand sounds a lot like a death metal band from Sweden, but as we’ve learned over the decades, things are never quite so simple. A more accurate statement would be to …
Atriarch – Forever The End Review
Forever the End is a superbly-realized first effort from Portland, Oregon’s Atriarch. Summoning a thick, melancholy doom metal that drinks deeply from the wells of black metal and ‘proper’ gothic rock (think Bauhaus, not corsets), …
Witch Mountain – South Of Salem Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Witch Mountain is a doom metal group from Portland that has been on the scene for over a decade, but since the addition of vocalist Uta Plotkin in 2009, they’ve …
Squash Bowels – Tnyribal (Reissue) Review
Polish grinders Squash Bowels came on strong with their last few efforts – both 2005’s Love Songs and 2009’s Willowtip-released Grindvirus were stout records that saw the band moving away from the goregrind that characterized …
Attick Demons – Atlantis
There are thousands of bands similar to Attick Demons out there. Not just stylistically, mind you (Maidenisms abound, once again), but also in terms of groups that manage(d) to remain ‘active’ over a long stretch …