Category: Reviews
Gorod – The Orb Review
Let’s begin with a question that might seem a little academic: Do you need your death metal to make sense? Of course, to the complete outsider, nothing about death metal makes any sense at all, …
Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 4
Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. You ever tape songs off the radio? (Yes, at least two of the words in that sentence are enough to paint me as …
Nuclear Holocaust – Sailing The Seas Of Nuclear Waste Review
Questions, dear reader: Do you like bells? Whistles? Flash or flair or flamboyance? Musical accouterments? Sonic trappings? Any kind of adornments? If you answered yes to any of the excessive variations upon the same question …
Gatekeeper – From Western Shores Review
[Artwork by the incomparable Duncan Storr] There is a forever discussion that goes on behind closed doors within the Last Rites Crew Discord concerning the Star Trek universe and whether or not the latest iterations …
Grave Axis – Dismal Aeon & Knifed – S/T Review
Grave Axis – Dismal Aeon Knifed – S/T I owe you an apology. I meant to write about Dismal Aeon, the debut cassette from Aotearoa New Zealand’s death metal snuggle-bunnies Grave Axis, at the tail …
FesterDecay – Reality Rotten To The Core Review
How you feel about this first FesterDecay full-length ultimately comes down to how you feel about two things: Originality. And Carcass. If you’re one of those who demands the former, then it’s very likely that …
Enslaved – Heimdal Review
Greetings and god Fredag. This is a journey into sound. And sounds. And time, and shifting perceptions, and journeys (journeys of journeys), and our relationship to all of these things, but mostly to sounds. And …
Methchrist – Pestilential Warfare Of The Black Flame Review
I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. – Albert Camus, The Plague Brothers and sisters, everything is fucked. The division between every conceivable social and ideological marker grows …