Siriun – Psychonaut Review
Do you suppose anyone has ever looked at themselves in the mirror on their 100th birthday and thought, “Well, it’s been a good, long life, but I sure wish I had spent more time being a dick about musical subgenres”? …
Do you suppose anyone has ever looked at themselves in the mirror on their 100th birthday and thought, “Well, it’s been a good, long life, but I sure wish I had spent more time being a dick about musical subgenres”? …
[Cover art by Hannah Felicia Lange] The timeline for the creative process is an inherently curious thing. Some bands are naturally prolific, dropping new tunes, collaborations, and one-offs multiple times a year, while others may end up waiting decades between …
Is there anything better than superbly written death metal? What else gets the blood pumping or gives you enough adrenaline kick to bite through a chain-link like some good old-fashioned death metal? Weirdly, I also consider death metal to be …
Keep it simple, whether you’re stupid or not – there’s certainly something to be said for that ethos. And always, always, always keep it heavy. The four fellows in Japan’s Coffins abide by a credo of heavy simplicity, or of …
Swedish power thrashers Nostradameus bring us their sixth record of melodic and epic, Helloween-and-Nocturnal–Rites-indebted speed metal. All the requisite components are here—guitar work with riffs equally melodic and aggressive, throaty vocals that reach into the …
Originally written by Ross Main. For those who think the culminated sound of Kreator and Obscura, with the shrill vocals, bass presence and progressive madness of Persefone’s Truth Inside the Shades album might be worthwhile – read on. For those who …
Wow. I needed that. To let you in a bit on my life of late, I’d struggled across the last few months with a review or two of albums that were solid enough but in …
Born from a motherboard buried deep inside the High Life-soaked medulla oblongata of guy named Brad Van, Wisconsin’s Droids Attack strike the target with a swaggering stoner-rock/metal gem that’s sure to appeal to cloudy and …
Thanks to John McEntee’s Ibex Moon Records, this latest effort from Brazilian death metal outfit Headhunter D.C. finally hits US shores some two years after the album’s initial Brazilian and European releases, with some bonus …
I am constantly dumbfounded at how a great band can cause a much larger uproar than, say, the criminal fact that Six Feet Under are still allowed to enter and utilize a recording studio. Pick …
originally written by Jim Brandon The UK’s Sanctus Nex is a crafty musical serpent, for its adequacy is a bit distracting when trying to pinpoint just what does and doesn’t click on Aurelia. It’s a …
Originally written by Erik Thomas When Finland’s doom/death act Swallow the Sun released their debut, The Morning Never Came back in 2003, they appeared poised to be the next great Finnish band and join the likes of Amorphis, Insomnium, Rapture and …