Category: Reviews
Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi Review
Stoner rock is fun. Drinking beer is fun. So a stoner band titling their new album with an adjective for the taste of their favorite beer kind of just makes perfect sense. Karakuchi is kind …
Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface Review
[Cover art by Timbul ‘Bvllmetalart’ Cahyono] Here’s the logline on Screams from Beneath the Surface, the seventh full-length album from Florida mainstays Monstrosity: it’s a calorically dense slab of death metal that doesn’t even attempt …
Midnatt – Skräckfylld Förtjusning Review
In case the recent surplus of hair raising releases delivered via today’s heavy metal torchwielders (Vultures Vengeance, Morax, Tower, Kuenring just to name a few) has led us to believe it’s not that hard to …
Desert Collider – Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity Review
Did you know that the English words “trope” and “tropical” share the same etymology? Hello, and I’m sorry to welcome you to this heavy metal album review. It’s true, though! Both words come from the …
Mega Colossus – Watch Out! Review
Some thoughts that crossed my mind as I listened to Watch Out!, the latest from Raleigh N.C.’s Mega Colossus. I can’t wait until it’s warm enough to run through the sprinkler and play “Minja Turtles” …
Temple Of Void – The Crawl Review
[Cover art by Travis Smith] Personally, I enjoy it when a band opens an album by kicking in your door and lighting your home on fire. Detroit doesn’t have a Devil’s Night reputation for nothing …
Miserere Luminis – Sidera Review
[Cover art by Adam Burke] Sweeping, tactile strokes. Threads of light and iridescent color pervading an inky blackness. A sense of continual but ever-shifting movement, like water. You might think these descriptive passages were written …
Exhumed – Red Asphalt Review
Ross Sewage closed a recent interview with a perfectly Exhumed response to a simple question: Asked to complete the sentence beginning with “Death metal is at its best…,” his answer was straight to the point: …