Category: Reviews
Found Sounds and Frig You Friday, Vol. 1
Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. Welcome to a Found Sounds & Fuck Yeah Fuck You Friday. Is this the start of a recurring feature? Is this a dismal …
Blast Rites: Chadhel – Failure // Downfall Review
“If we go down the current status quo for, let’s say, about twenty years, we probably destroy our civilization… Probably don’t survive.” A soundbite from Jaron Lanier’s The Social Dilemma opens Failure // Downfall, nestled …
Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale Review
[Album artwork by Kerem Beyit] It’s been four years since we last heard a peep from Twilight Force, Sweden’s answer to Alan Menken stuffed into a mail hauberk. Were they the first power metal band …
Natt – Natt Review
You know how they say that opinions are like assholes (because everybody has one)? It turns out that, particularly for music reviewers, genre tags are like assholes after too much spicy food: overused and not …
Anachronism – Meanders Review
[Artwork by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration] Despite having spent many years focusing on creative endeavors such as writing, drawing cartoons, and designing book covers, I do not consider myself an artist. I would say …
HellPoison – Ultra Outbreak Of Hell Review
[Fukkin cover blasphemies by BONECRUSHER] The absolute cojones it takes to drop a demo on January 2nd, but total fukk to you!! While you organizing year-end lists into spreadsheet TOTAL METAL GODS HELLPOISON were shotgunning …
Impending Rot – Anatomical Discorporated Aberration Review
Information is vanishingly scarce about Mexico’s Impending Rot. In fact, other than the fact that the band is from Mexico and is called Impending Rot, I have… zero information. A first EP appeared in October …
Obituary – Dying Of Everything Review
In the years since their late 90s hiatus and early millennium reformation, Obituary has thoroughly established themselves as consistent, if not always consistently stellar. They’re the AC/DC of death metal in terms of both qualitative …