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 …
[Fade in on a small, modern office space with a number of desk stations scattered throughout. Several individuals are answering telephones in what appears to be some type of crisis counseling center. One of the …
Those unfamiliar with shoegaze enthusiast Fursy Teyssier of Les Discrets need only know that the group’s stunning debut, Septembre et Ses Dernières Pensées, may in fact go down as the crowning acheivement of the entire …
Originally written by Ramar Pittance The following is a portion of a list of grindcore acts described as “no nonsense,” according to a quick Google search. Wormrot Misery Index Napalm Death Nasum Rotten Sound Extreme …
originally written by Chris McDonald Blood Mortized is a death metal band from Sweden. They play music highly reminiscent of Swedish DM legends like Dismember and Entombed in both sound and songwriting. Their lineup features …
So many horror fiction writers have served to inspire heavy metal music. Lovecraft gets the obvious nod, but the works of Edgar Allan Poe, too, have had a great impact on the genre. He was, …
Although London institution Orange Goblin has been kicking ass consistently for fifteen years, it is somewhat recently that the band has really perfected the blend of Black Sabbath, Motörhead, and Down – the kind of …
At some point, even the most adamant fans of Dylan Carlson have to wonder whether or not he’s just milking the cow at this point. Some would even go so far as to point out …
There might not be a bigger mystery in metal right now than the absence-but-not-departure of Pepper Keenan from Corrosion of Conformity. He’s still in the band, but he isn’t recording or playing live (regularly) with …
