Generally Impressed With Riffs
Welcome, all, to the thirstiest extreme metal album of 2024. Amsterdam’s Deathless Void straight up named their album The Voluptuous Fires of Sin, which I can only imagine is about the impure thoughts that went through your head the first …
Some things age gracefully, and get better with time. Wine… Cheese… Me… We can add Phoenix-based thrashers Flotsam & Jetsam to that list, especially now that they’re four albums into a third act that sees them rise back up from …
Wolfbrigade (formerly Wolfpack not to be associated with the atrociously hateful movement of the same name) just continue to pump out high-level d-beat hardcore punk rock that will get you angry, worked up, hot and bothered and, most importantly, ready …
Cover artwork by Eduardo Ver Papangu’s debut album, Holoceno, was a resounding success in 2021, even making that year’s Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25. Four longtime friends from João Pessoa, Brazil, had somehow found a way (over seven years) …
We’re gonna go ahead and get the most important point right out in the open: Evil Nights, the debut EP from Sicily’s Demon Spell, is almost entirely a work of tribute to Mercyful Fate. Yes, …
One of the many admirable qualities of the PNW-based METAL (all caps purposeful) band Oxygen Destroyer is its near equal adherence to both aesthetic and evolution. The band sounded every bit like graduates of the …
[Cover artwork by Wes Benscoter] If it walks like a duck…quacks like a duck…and riffs(?) like a duck… it’s probably… Fulci! Born June 17, 1927, in Rome, Italy, Lucio Fulci spent 69 years on this …
[Cover art by Cadaver Art] Boy, it can’t be easy being a naked, glowing humanoid rapidly descending into a black hole alongside a particle jet of damned souls. First, there’s whatever happened that made the …
Friend, has your day been triumphant? If not, might I recommend a wholesome death metal tonic in the form of Crown of Anguish’s debut album, Stalker at the Midian Gate? The UK band whips up …
[Cover art by Mike Hoffman] If we were lucky enough to have a look into the thought bubble above Ironflame founder Andrew D’Cagna’s head, we’d see the stuff of epic fantasy: dragon shadows coursing across …
[Cover art by Rudi Yanto] If you’re lucky enough to be the kind of heavy music enjoyer who has surrounded yourself with other heavy music enjoyers, you’re likely very familiar with the ripple effect of …
Cover art by Bastian Velasquez. At a glance, the title of Mayhemic’s first full-length album could refer to one of several things. Perhaps its a reference to the indigenous Toba–also known as Qom–from central Argentina that …
