Generally Impressed With Riffs
Picture this, brah brah: You’re out enjoying a nice meal with the in-laws. It’s a pleasant setting—a beach vacation, let’s say. The sun gently peeks above the horizon, illuminating the tides as they roll in and wash away the footprints …
[Artwork by Pierre de Palmas] When revealing Melting Rot as the first band booked to play at Revenge of the Corpse 3, festival organizer Isaac Horne wrote on Instagram that the Aurora, Illinois, trio was “the closest you’ll ever get …
[Album artwork by Staffan Lindroth] The last time we gathered together under the Dimhav banner, I was busy losing my grip over the Swede’s very excellent and very sudden debut, 2019’s The Boreal Flame. I say ‘very sudden’ in that …
[Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans] “Change–and everything is change; nothing can be held on to–to the degree that you go with a stream, you see, you are are still, you are flowing with it. But to the degree you resist …
The riff, man. The RIFF. Ever since Iommi first laid that heavy slab of Sacramental bread onto our collective tongues, we have all been SAVED – Hallelujah. And surviving all these years later as a …
I’ve read a few reviews in the last several years – and I’ve written one of them – stating that Italy’s Cripple Bastards has quietly been creeping up to become one of grindcore’s leading lights. …
We are at it again. Having previously compiled the 100 Most Essential Albums of both the 1990s and the 2000s, the Last Rites staff set its sights on that golden age of heavy metal, the …
One of the foremost preoccupations of science fiction is imagining the myriad ways in which new technologies affect society. Science fiction written after the advent of the computer age was thus given a new set …
Originally written by Ian Chainey Killing Joke‘s recently released In Dub remix collection is a monster. Taking cuts from across their career, on-again-off-again-on-again-and-on-and-on bassist Martin “Youth” Glover has done a yeoman’s job of stitching together …
originally written by Erik Highter BF-OR. Big Fuck-Off Riffs. It’s all Major Kong is about, and their second full-length album, Doom Machine, is a mission statement. As soon as the sample ends at the beginning …
