Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Cover artwork by Old Hag] When I initially realized that Arckanum’s first album after a long hiatus—and, technically, its breakup—would be released on All Hallows’ Eve, I devised this rather cutesy and far-fetched idea to compare the entire album to …
[Album artwork / art direction by Joseph Niet / The Creative Corporation] Offering up a textbook definition of “holy crap, time flies,” Black Sabbath’s swan song, 13, was released 13 years ago, on June 7th, 2013. In a curious move, …
If you’re just now catching up, well, we’re just now catching up. Seth Buttnam and I (plus one uninvited guest) are rounding up some of our favoritest grindcore (or grind-adjacent) releases of the past however many months, since we (read: …
[Album artwork by Truls Espedal] It’s 17 albums for Enslaved now, comprising a discography I find exceptionally challenging to wrap my arms around. What’s going on here? Does anyone else forget that the relatively rote and by-the-numbers Frost is actually …
Get a load of that cover, will ya? You’ve got a pile of skulls spilling out of a creepy car park, Ghost Rider and his angry dog, and a hooded demon about to shoot up …
I’ll admit that Dawnbringer‘s latest, Night of the Hammer, had its hooks in me, before I even heard a note of it. The stark, but evocative cover of a black-clad, hammer-wielding figure staring across a field …
This is The Proglodyte’s Bonepile, a place for words about progressive heavy metal music. Thanks for being here. I like all metals, really, but my bippy is most reliably and thoroughly flipped by the progressive …
Zeitgeister Music, that German label/family of bands that thrills as many metal fans as it befuddles, always seems to have one band in that “nailin’ it” groove at any given time. For a while, it …
The sea has long been a rich source of cultural, historical, and artistic inspiration. One of the earliest – and most potent – myths is the flood recounted in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was …
Hey, I’m not gonna lie. The money’s good. Hell, the money’s great. Why, just last week I took my Last Rites paycheck down to the local BMW dealer and bought a brand new i8 for …
While Heaven Wept turned a lot of heads with 2009’s incredible Vast Oceans Lachrymose, finding a killer balance between crushing, epic doom and prog similar to Fates Warning at their most sprawling. A brief two …
Conveniently in time for Halloween season, Necrophagia awakens from its three-year slumber. Back in ye olden days of the 1980s, when death metal was just crawling forth from the womb, Necrophagia was among the first …
