Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Cover art by Quinn Henderson] You’re familiar with the term, “unc,” right? If not, it generally refers to a washed up older feller whose personality in large part revolves around extravagantly performing confusion and/or displeasure at the mere notion of …
[Artwork by Caroline Harrison] “Nonsense” opens with a slow fade-in of distorted guitars and seismic drums — the chaos before the swarm. It’s a trick of the trade, the extreme metal equivalent of a camera operator calling out “speed” before …
[Cover artwork by Luca “Zeero” Zironi] There was always something uniquely charming about Konquest’s brand of traditional heavy metal—an almost whimsical breeziness that still felt like a near perfect balance of playful and substantive. A long-lost Italian cousin to Sweden’s …
[Cover art by Beyond Art] There are bad musical moods, and then there’s Mylingar. Over the course of the last decade this group of anonymous Swedes has concocted the type of ill-meaning black/death that makes Diocletian seem like a Care …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Unfortunately, many doom, drone, or sludge-oriented bands use extended songs and / or sparse compositional tactics as unwieldy splints for their underdeveloped songwriting sinews. In the worst — or best, …
Originally written by Ian Chainey Gregory Lahm’s growl sounds about right. It’s a rich rumble, like a pick-up driven over gravel or a boiler kicked on by the cold. It’s a vocal fold violator, the …
Even if you’re not really the type to bury your head in all the various tomes dissecting all the varied sagas of Norse mythology, it ain’t much of a stretch to think that a typical …
French death metal act Offending has returned with its sophomore set Age of Perversion, and there are changes afoot. The band’s debut Human Concept was a vicious but musical platter of death metal. This time …
Canada’s Burning Love is perhaps most notable for featuring the vocal and lyrical mischief of former Cursed frontman Chris Colohan. With second album Rotten Thing to Say, however, Burning Love ought to also become notable …
The article was originally written by Rae Amitay. Back in May, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I was given the chance to ask Moonspell’s longtime vocalist Fernando Ribeiro some questions about the band’s new double …
If you’re thinking that you’ve seen this before, meaning a reissue of High On Fire’s debut The Art Of Self Defense, you’d be right. In 2001, Tee Pee Records reissued the album with a couple …
Welcome to part two of Riffology’s Kreative Evolution mini-series, wherein we will examine riffs from the Kreator catalogue on an album by album basis. 1986 was the pinnacle year for thrash. The year birthed two undisputed …
