Category: Reviews
Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire – Songs Of Ill Hope And Desperation Review
Assuming one can look past their overly verbose name, in Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire (hereinafter referred to as “Clinging“) one will find a promising young grindcore unit, one that blends their …
Interment – Into The Crypts Of Blasphemy Review
originally written by Erik Thomas As most regular readers at my various outlets know, old school Swedish metal gives me a tremendous boner. From its fore bearers in Entombed, Grave and Dismember through unheralded gems like Nirvana 2002,Gorement and God Macabre and …
D.I.S. – Critical Failure Review
Get ready to bust out your skateboards and vandalize your neighborhood, because after hearing D.I.S., you won’t be able to do anything else. That’s right, Critical Failure contains 25 minutes of non-stop classic thrash action. …
Zombiekrig – Undantagstillstånd Review
Confession: I signed up to review this album because these Swedes named their band Zombiekrig. That’s it. Any of you who say you wouldn’t do the same are either liars or just too damn uptight …
Rage – Strings To A Web Review
Despite their nearly thirty-year career (beginning in 1984 under the name Avenger), Rage has only rarely crossed my radar before now. I have a few tracks of theirs on compilations, most notably the old Doomsday …
Ragnarok – Collectors Of The King Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Ragnarok has been churning out quality traditional black metal albums from Norway for the better part of fifteen years, yet elevation into the greater pantheon of Norwegian projects has eluded …
The Sequence Of Prime – Virion Review
You really have to love the one-man metal project. Sure, plenty of this type offer exercises in hot-mess masturbation, but to answer every Zarach ‘Baal’ Tharagh that tries to bury us in a suffocating pile …
Grave – Burial Ground Review
originally written by Erik Thomas I’ve been struggling with this review for a few weeks now. Why? Well because I love Grave; their debut ranks close to Entombed’s Left Hand Path and Dismember’s Like An Ever Flowing Stream as far as Swedish …