Category: Reviews
Concrete Winds ‒ Nerve Butcherer Review
Entering “racket” into ye olde Dictionary.com yields several results, with the following coming up under noun definitions: Social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation. Legolas and Gimli took part in the celebratory racket following the victorious battle …
Memory Garden – 1349 Review
[Cover artwork by Gyula Havancsák] “It’s all fun and games until someone gets the Black Death.” ~ Albert of Saxony circa 1346, probably I’m not sure if any of you were there, but the early …
Stillbirth – Strain Of Gods Review
Way back many decades ago when it was 2020, several bands managed to put out multiple high-quality releases that were a potent mix of full-lengths, EPs, live albums and who knows what else. In fact, …
Molybaron ‒ The Mutiny Review
France’s MolyBaron self-released their second album, The Mutiny, back in May and somebody at InsideOut Music liked it enough to pick it up for a formal release in late October. That’s a bit of a …
Monument Of Misanthropy – Unterweger Review
Even ignoring that it’s a concept album about an Austrian serial killer, no one who has had the benefit of looking at Unterweger’s cover art would be surprised to learn that Monument of Misanthropy plays …
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment Review
Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. Even using the most expansive definition, death metal is still not even 40 years old. And yet, on Preserved in Torment, Mortiferum plays the kind of death metal …
Ophicvs – El Tetraputas Review
The year is 2069. The Earth is in shambles following a series of events including (but not limited to): nuclear armageddon, climate change, the scarcity of water, and, of course, the Cryptocurrency War Of 2042. …
Tower – Shock To The System Review
[Cover artwork by Morgan Jesse Lappin] “The guitar. It was the key, the sword in the stone, the staff of righteousness. As my father christened it, ‘that fucking guitar’,” remarked Bruce Springsteen during his six-month …