Category: Reviews

Black Crucifixion – Hope Of Retaliation Review

originally written by Juho Mikkonen Hailing originally from Rovaniemi (the biggest town in Finnish Lapland, a safe-haven for some match-fixing Zambian soccer players and a nest for many other things that seem awfully out of

Origin – Entity Review

Origin has long been one of the few technical death metal acts that actually start with the death before adding the technical. As a result, they have garnered the attention of many fans that would normally

Loss – Despond Review

Well, there goes the fucking neighborhood… Despond delivers a brand of music that’s entirely capable of lowering a gargantuan boot-heel directly to the throat of the fresh summer months. SNAP!! Gone are the lively bbq’s, the lazy afternoons

Unexpect – Fables Of The Sleepless Empire Review

Originally written by Rae Amitay Unexpect is a six-piece Canadian crew that plays a hybrid of pretty much every genre of metal, combined with electro, jazz, funk, ambient, noise, neo-classical, and about a dozen more

Alestorm – Back Through Time Review

Originally written by Rae Amitay One might think that after two albums chock full of seafaring themes, Alestorm would be running low on inspiration the third time around. Such is not the case on Back Through

Hell – Human Remains Review

A childhood spent over-indulging in the royal bombast of the King (Diamond) and Queen has left me with a long-lasting love of the theatrical; years of love for prog-rock have given me a liking for

Bloodbath – Bloodbath Over Bloodstock Review

Originally written by Sasha Horn “We’re filming tonight… They’re not gonna film you guys so much. They’re not gonna film the guys in the band so much. They’re gonna film me a lot.” I happen

Weekend Nachos – Worthless Review

Worthless is the Relapse debut for Chicago-area power-violence outfit Weekend Nachos, and worthless it is not. With appropriately thick-toned guitars and ever-shifting tempos, the band lurches through fourteen tracks as indebted to tar-coated sludge as