Generally Impressed With Riffs
To start, let’s acknowledge that you and I don’t really know each other. This means, among other things, that I can’t say what “war metal” means to you. To some extent, maybe you just throw your hands in the air …
Kia ora, compadres. Welcome to the latest edition of In Crust We Trust. Below you’ll find a bunch of ear-wrecking noise to help you process and/or drown out the 24/7 horror show currently occupying our screens. Wherever you are, and …
Cryptworm’s third LP, Infectious Pathological Waste, quite charmingly arrives at the perfect time for yours truly; the deeper, choppier musical waters I’ve been swimming in the past few weeks have made for an often rewarding but exhaustingly challenging adventure. Conversely, …
[Album artwork by Aaron Turner] Neurosis’s willingness to push past the boundaries of metallic hardcore early in their career has influenced scores of bands across a wide range of subgenres. Hardcore, metal, and untold strains of avant-garde and experimental music …
Howdy, friends. I’m back. Apologies for the absence of Staff Infections these past few months. The rise of fascism has me in a bit of a crisis of giving a shit, and Ozzy Osbourne’s death …
Melbourne’s Deliquesce debuted with monstrous intent on 2023’s Cursed with Malevolence, an album so stuffed with brutal/technical death goodness that you’d have thought they were flies on the wall for the Pierced from Within sessions. …
Being actively online can be a terrifically strange thing to experience if you happen to be old enough to remember… the Before Times. This becomes imminently clear when misfortune hits because, if you’re like me—and …
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Happy summer, folks! It’s become tradition here around LR HQ to spend part of July catching up with the things we’ve missed throughout the year, or at least the things we really dig that we …
After many moons sitting upon the desk of editor Zach Duvall, it’s time to tell the local coroner to bust a U-turn—this installment of the Devil’s Dozen is, in fact, alive and well. While comatose …
[Cover art by Greg Kubacki] Sometimes, one of the greatest hooks a band can have is simply how they sound. Look to a group like Meshuggah, whose thick, hefty and elastic guitar is often copied …
