Generally Impressed With Riffs
If you’re just now catching up, well, we’re just now catching up. Seth Buttnam and I (plus one uninvited guest) are rounding up some of our favoritest grindcore (or grind-adjacent) releases of the past however many months, since we (read: …
[Album artwork by Truls Espedal] It’s 17 albums for Enslaved now, comprising a discography I find exceptionally challenging to wrap my arms around. What’s going on here? Does anyone else forget that the relatively rote and by-the-numbers Frost is actually …
[Cover art by Per Spjøtvold] Want a fun way to acknowledge your own mortality? Think about how many years you’ve been listening to certain bands or albums. Of course, you, a distinguished devotee of this publication, surely engage in this practice, …
To put it mildly, I’ve been a bit sidetracked this year, so I apologize to all zero of my readers for not keeping them informed on the state of grindcore as I see it. Thankfully, I have some conscientious compatriots …
originally written by Erik Thomas 2010 has seen some solid grindcore from the likes of Misery Index, Defeatist, Sayyadina, Wormrot, Infanticide and others, but how about the second effort from Australia’s Beyond Terror Beyond Grace for something out of …
“Horror has a face…and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends.” Mordax is yet another band that mixes together two extreme genres of music that once graced our …
Void of Silence hail from the Italian peninsula, representing doom metal in the ongoing class action lawsuit of Substance v. Presentation. Alright, that’s bullshit, but if such a case really did exist, The Grave of …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Over the past eighteen months or so, the Madden brothers have been quietly making a name for themselves in independent metal circles. No, not those eyeliner-clad cockbags that make a …
Straight out of New York city comes the “epic” metal-playing duo, Realmbuilder. Sadly, the only thing epic about Summon The Stone Throwers is its failure. Its tracks are filled with the type of monotony and blandness …
originally written by Erik Thomas The Relapse PR machine is making no qualms about Black Tusk’s sound. I’ve seen this Savannah, Georgia trio openly advertised and reviewed as ‘swamp metal’ and ‘Mastodon’s back-water brethren’, and if the Jon Baizley cover …
originally written by Erik Thomas If you took 3-4 tracks from each of the last two Keep of Kalessin albums (Armada and Kolossus) you’d have arguably one of the most epic black metal albums of all-time. About half of …
originally written by Jim Brandon Cover albums usually rank about as high as Carnie Wilson’s stomach staples on my interest meter, but even I was intrigued when I learned Steve Von Till’s Harvestman, North Carolina’s …
