Generally Impressed With Riffs
Greetings and welcome back, readers and friends. We know you’re still recovering from about 10 tons of 2025 year-end lists, but there truly is no rest for the wicked, and we’re hopping right into 2026 action despite our very recent …
As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have to be a record. Concerts. …
Is this the final album I’m ever going to listen to? That has been on my mind a lot this year. Eventually, whether it be tomorrow or years from now, there will be a final album. It’s in the fine …
Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over my rinky-dink list is a …
“Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are gonna be the problem, or whether you are gonna be the solution!” – Brother J. C. …
LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot …
The EP is dead!!! Ok, EPs are not dead, but any consensus of what is or is not an EP or demo certainly is. For starters, my dumbass cast a vote for РЛБ30011922 by 夢遊病者 …
As the (Western Christocentric) world is presently drowning in the pablum of commercial Christmas music and with weeks yet to go, let us instead come together to celebrate the weird and wonderful world of Heavy …
I AM HERE. YOU ARE HERE. WE ARE HERE. AND WE HAVE THE POWER. AGAIN! {collective transformation into an impressive jumbo robot / Machinder that shoots missiles from its tits} Hiya heya ahoy-hoy! Welcome to …
[Pictured above: Konrad Kantor (left), Warren Binder (right)] Here’s a sentiment I’m guessing is shared by quite a number of people out there: I first met Warren Binder at a metal festival, and what I …
[Cover art by Lauri Laaksonen] Phobocosm’s fourth album, Gateway, is very much an album that sounds like its cover. It is a bleak, colorless, and intimidating swath of rocks with some room to breathe that …
So here’s the thing about Rotten Sound: They kick ass. That’s really the end of the review, but okay, let’s keep going. Now some thirty years into their career, Rotten Sound has set themselves into …
