Generally Impressed With Riffs
It’s a magical corner of the musical world where a band can combine an infectious nature with extreme oddness, and it’s in that corner that Idaho’s Seven Chains makes their home. Make no mistake about it, third album Swollen, In …
[Cover art by Claudio Elias Scialabba] Italy’s Into Darkness has been a band for approximately 15 years but is just now releasing its first full length album, Route to the Other Side, but all that time has been greatly beneficial …
[Cover art by David Preissel] The sounds of Neurosis’ “Locust Star” emanate from a desktop speaker wired to an iPod Nano via ⅛-inch cable “Hey maaaan … is that Ponderous Post Metal?” “Yeah maaan …” “Well turn it up MAAAN!!” …
[Artwork by Vicky “Liddo” Morales] In a soak-your-underwear sweaty, tetanus-to-the-touch warehouse in the middle of Skid Row, Raw Addict played its first show. Weeks earlier, drummer Isaac made the irresistible sales pitch, stating that the multinational band connecting grind lifers …
Our dear mums were right: We’re all special snowflakes. We are unique, we have varied opinions and values, and perhaps most importantly, we have exceptionally uncommon taste in art, particularly music. Remember when Janice over …
Over the past decade or so, Germany’s Imperium Dekadenz has slowly but surely grown from somewhat humble (but still quality) origins into one of the best bands in the melodic, melancholy black metal field. Their …
Overkill Commando is the debut full-length from this pack of Polish punk-grinders, after a 2014 demo and last year’s four-way split with Hell United, Cemetery Whore, and the wonderfully named Necrosodomistical Slaughter. In both instances, …
Here is an ashamed thing I am: I live in the same state as SubRosa, within a 35 minute train ride, probably…maybe some city buses and walking… You get the point. I live within easy …
No style of music is accurately defined by one element, but I often find it interesting to discover how people designate a genre such as doom with a single word. Traditional doom, mind you, not …
American power metal institution Vicious Rumors hits the dozen mark with this latest full-length, thirty-one years after their classic debut on 1985’s Soldiers Of The Night. Now as then, the band straddles the line between …
It’s sometimes surprising just how much time a lot of metal musicians seem to have on their hands. It’s not uncommon to see some of them playing in upwards of a dozen bands at the …
The late summer doldrums are here, but many artists are looking beyond the seasons to the stars. Blood Incanation‘s Starspawn currently has tongues wagging, and the new album from Satan-Is-In-The-Cosmos explorers Inquisition is about to drop into everybody’s laps. But, you should …
