Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Cover artwork by Subhuman at Desert Dungeon] Let’s talk about our love for quirky metal. Okay, sure, any definable level of ‘quirk’ is obviously subjective, but I’m guessing you know we’re not talking about the guy who loves The Black …
[Cover art by Mister Curse] Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface. Stack Overflow in…Corpse Pile Interface? “What’s in a name? That which we call a corpse pile, by any other word would smell as putrid” – billy shakes Forgive my …
[Cover art by Jef Whitehead] Cognizance’s In Light, No Shape serves as a useful reminder that when it comes to our musical preferences, our whats are subservient to our whys. If, for example, you are a fan of the early …
[Cover artwork by Michael Cloutier] Prog, of course, is known for technical musicianship and songwriting complexity above all else, a reputation well-earned by the early giants of the genre and happily maintained by their progeny ever since. It’s also true …
I don’t really know what America is, y’know? A place this big and beautiful and awful and ridiculous, though, I suppose it can’t ever be A Single Thing. (Which, probably, is also what makes it …
Who, exactly, decides which bands get the blacklist treatment, and when? Why are certain bands, at particular points in their careers, just expected to drop a turd, and the expectations of said dung heap earn …
They say he uses the whip, the manacles and the torment-frame they call Skeffington’s Daughter. It is a portable device, into which a man is folded, knees to chest, with a hoop of iron across …
Alright, folks, I’ve spent the better part of three months trying to figure out what to write about The Circle and the Blue Door, the debut album from England-based Purson. To borrow a bit from …
Originally written by Chris Redar Guess what kids? It’s story time. When yours truly heard Saprogenic had a new album in the pipeline, I sprang into action to make sure my name was attached for the review. …
When they finally hang up their boots, there will be little doubt that Entombed will have left a complicated legacy. Their first two albums, 1990’s Left Hand Path and 1991’s Clandestine, are undisputed classics of …
Some bands need no introduction, and Slayer is definitely one of them. The scope of the band’s influence is nigh-on incalculable. Sufiice it to say that everyone that plays and/or listens to extreme metal owes …
For a genre as steeped in the rich, pungent peat of occult historicism as black metal, Lychgate is nearly a perfect band name. A lychgate is a small gate topped with a pointed wooden roof …
