Category: Reviews
Ambassador Gun – When In Hell Review
Minnesota grind/punk trio Ambassador Gun began in 2002 under the bulkier moniker of A Second From The Surface. In either of their two incarnations, they’ve released three previous full-lengths before dropping When In Hell. I …
Sickening Horror – The Dead End Experiment
Sickening Horror’s debut, When Landscapes Bled Backwards, was the sleeper death metal album of 2007, and had I heard it in time, it surely would have landed a spot on my end-of-year list. But I clearly …
El Creepo! – El Creepo! Review
Do you listen to heavy metal all day, every day? Do you find yourself needing to take a break from the aural pounding but you’re afraid of losing your metal cred? Hi, Todd Edward Smith …
The Accüsed – The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead Review
The Accüsed’s debut The Return Of Martha Splatterhead was an important record in my extreme metal history—I can still remember exactly where and when I bought it, although I admit that I was behind the …
Eagle Twin – The Unkindness Of Crows Review
originally written by Jim Brandon We’re hit with death metal ‘til it’s rupturing every orifice, slaughtered by new black metal monthly, and trounced by deathcore at every turn. Yet doom seems to invoke a natural …
Megadeth – Endgame Review
Zach Duvall’s take: Oh how Dave Mustaine doth deceive us. These past 17 years have been, to say the least, frustrating. Yes, you read right, it’s been seventeen years and six albums since Mustaine gave …
Altar Of Plagues – White Tomb Review
The truth in the horror that is human nature is that people inflict the most terrible agonies on each other, to say nothing of their blatant contempt for the world in which they live. Heavy …
Gwar – Lust In Space Review
Who’d have imagined that metal’s multimedia maestros Gwar would make it to the quarter-century mark? But then again, why wouldn’t they? As one of the most bizarre and creative collectives to ever emerge from the …