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 …
As part of an ongoing obsessive effort to completely corner the market on any and all things related to crusty punk, Southern Lord offers up this 7” EP from the re-risen From Ashes Rise. Originally formed …
Originally written by Matt Longo As I imported Gastrike into iTunes, the genre came up as “Viking Doom Metal”, when their last album The End registers as “Epic Viking Doom Metal”… so what does this …
Don’t quite believe everything you read, kids – this one’s not really doom. But it is violent. Denver-based grindcore trio Catheter last released a full-length in 2005. That disc, Dimension 303, was a fun and …
Originally written by Matt Longo You can always twist an idiom to suit one’s needs. Regarding how much time is all right to spend with someone/something, it may be argued that either “familiarity breeds contempt” …
On its face, the sort of bruising metallic crust / d-beat so lovingly cultivated and / or rampantly spewed into the world by Southern Lord of late would seem to permit very little room for …
The Kings Of Beer Metal belly up to the bar for another round… And like you’d imagine, it pretty much ends up like the last few, but that’s hardly a bad thing. We get some …
For the next several installments of Riffology, we will break from format (somewhat) by adding a little history to our lessons. We shall embark on a riff odyssey through the catalog of German thrash kings, …
Like their fellow Spaniards in Graveyard, Unconsecrated looks to their northeast for inspiration. This is death metal done the Swedish way, with the appropriate buzzsaw tone and d-beat-leaning drum beats. Awakening In The Cemetery Grave …
