Category: Reviews
Tangorodrim – Justus Ex Fide Vivit Review
Technicality? BAH! Tangorodrim SMASH your technicality! Bells and whistles? YAARGH! Save your bells and whistles for the old! Tangorodrim explode your damned heart!! Tangorodrim punch your eyes with nails!! Tangorodrim kick loose your spine!!! TANGORODRIM …
Evile – Enter The Grave Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. And so the thrash revival continues! After a lot of positive build-up the UK’s Evile have dropped their debut full-length for Earache, and it’s a cracking album in many ways, but your enjoyment …
The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal Review
Originally written by Tyler Wagnon. Right off the bat, I’d like to make you aware that I am a fan of The Black Dahlia Murder, but far from a fanboy. I don’t froth at the mouth …
DevilDriver – The Last Kind Words Review
My feelings on DevilDriver have been well documented on this site, so I’ll leave a lot of the background information out of this one. I will say that it has been interesting not only watching …
Botch – We Are The Romans (Reissue) Review
Originally written by Jason Jordan. Originally issued in 1999, We Are the Romans was Botch’s second full-length, but to the chagrin of many, was also their last. Though the breakup occurred two years after the release of this, …
Botch – American Nervoso (Reissue) Review
Originally written by Jason Jordan. Along with Coalesce, Converge, and The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tacoma’s defunct Botch are renowned in -core circles, and are rightfully namedropped whenever anything even remotely chaotic is up for discussion. Hydra Head began reissuing their discography last …
Overkill – Immortalis Review
If anyone deserves to benefit from the current resurgence (read: commercial viability) of thrash, it’s a band like Overkill. These originators have been hard at it for two decades; not collapsing under egos and superstar expectations, …
The Living Fields – The Living Fields Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: If placed in a Hostel 2, genital removing situation and forced to name two of the best unsigned bands no one has ever heard of, I’d easily go with The Pax Cecilia and The …