Generally Impressed With Riffs
[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 …
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 …
Since I am pretty much out of interesting angles on old-school death metal, I will just get down to business with this review. Poisoned Void is the debut from Finnish death metal act Vorum. Though …
If your chief goal for heavy metal is to find something to accompany evenings spent thinking about defiling nuns under the sweltering glimmer of a smoldering chapel, Norway’s Altaar ain’t likely to land on your list …
“If you’re gonna do it, do it live on stage… or don’t do it at all” So proclaims frontman Neil Fallon in the opening title track of Clutch’s tenth studio album, Earth Rocker, laying down …
In its roughly two-decades’-long existence, Greece’s Septic Flesh has been unusually restless. The core has (nearly) always been a heavily atmospheric style of death metal, but listening to this reissue of the band’s 1994 debut, …
Clive Burr began his career with Iron Maiden in 1979 after a brief stint with Samson. He appeared on the albums Iron Maiden (1980), Killers (1981) and Number of the Beast (1982), and was widely …
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Chances are you didn’t hear Arctic Sleep‘s Arbors when it was released in October, 2012. That’s okay; you’re not alone. The unsigned Milwaukee/Chicago-based quartet is the brainchild of songwriters and self-professed amplifier junkies …
Fundamentally speaking, there are two types of drug honkeys. There are those that prefer to go up, that get high to get higher and faster, and there are those looking to go down. This Drug …
As is the case, I would imagine, with most of you, I spend time with people who have little to no knowledge of any music outside of the pop world. To my friends and acquaintances …
