Category: Reviews
The Melvins – (A) Senile Animal Review
I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Not only are Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover the founding members of the Melvins, they’re also soulless wraiths that have survived for centuries by feeding on …
Leatherwolf – World Asylum Review
Leatherwolf? Nah, really? What the hell am I doing here? Bobbing my head? To LEATHERWOLF? What the fuck? That was six rhetorical questions in a row, for those of you keeping score. A band that …
Totimoshi – Ladron Review
Originally written by Jason Jordan. I agreed wholeheartedly with Mooring’s assessment of Totimoshi’s ¿Mysterioso? (2001). The Crucial Blast reissue (2005) of their second full-length served as my introduction too, and though I commended the quirkiness of ¿Mysterioso?, I felt the word …
Harkonin – Ghanima Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Harkonin make the wise decision of not having their primary influences made explicit on either their website or their Myspace page. So, while I can’t take the easy way out and …
Trivium – The Crusade Review
Chris Sessions’ take: Trivium, then? OK, so what are my impressions? Not my cup o Joe, sailor. This is just more of the same shit I have been hoping to avoid reviewing for about a …
Insomnium – Above The Weeping World Review
originally written by Jim Brandon I’ve only been able to briefly hear Insomnium’s In The Halls Of Awaiting and Since The Day It All Came Down until fairly recently, and after more concentrated listening I …
Ahab – The Call Of The Wretched Sea Review
“Yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder man, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very …
Wolf – The Black Flame Review
Originally written by Dante Sacomani. I’m typically the last person willing to dole out any over exaggerated praise to a band who so obviously handpicks their musical cues straight from the back catalogs of legendary …