Generally Impressed With Riffs
Gabriele Gramaglia is the type of metal artist that prefers to keep his works compartmentalized. The Clearing Path offers Gorguts-meets-DHG weirdo prog/black metal that is as likely to confuse as to delight; Summit takes a similarly “cerebral,” detail-oriented, and fresh …
Look, Jack, I love forward-thinking freakjazz just the same as you. My loins glisten just the same as yours at the dulcet tones of avant-garde doomfolk. Ambient ethno-funeral grind floods my dopamine receptors just as it does yours and hers …
Hello and good evening and welcome to our wood-paneled den. Ryan and I were just about to sit down and listen to some music on cassette tape. Ryan made crepes! There’s just something about the way he layers the jam …
Somewhere in Time was my Iron Maiden album. I understand some bands get a little itchy when they see fan reactions similar to this, because that sort of connection / dominion very often leads to absurd notions that said bands …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon In the eyes of many metalheads, it’s damn near impossible to top Edge of Sanity’s 1996 opus Crimson in terms of epic single-song albums. So, who better to try and …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Somehow, Nightwish is one of those bands that, despite a respected discography and large amount of hype, I had never heard. Maybe it’s the fact I’m put off by the …
Originally written by Erik Thomas This was pretty high on my “anticipated” list, and came with high expectations considering the involvement of Tommy Rodgers and Paul Waggoner from Prayer For Cleansing (some of my favorite …
Originally written by Dan Staige. Enter a complete desecration of music as you know it. Enter the total obliteration of traditional music and the supreme rebuild of what death metal is about to become. Enter…..Decrepit …
Originally written by Erik Thomas In 1998, I dismissed AOW’s “For Those who where Crucified”, as bland hardcore, and to be honest with you, I was mired in Nile worship and had my death metal …
Rock music has a long and hallowed tradition of mocking itself. Metal has kept that tradition alive in the form of bands like SOD, Gwar, Spazztic Blur, OLD, Lawnmower Death…on and on. It’s appropriate and …
Originally written by Dan Staige. Ohhh yahhhh another Six Feet Under record. Don’t expect much. Don’t expect half of what True Carnage was. While True Carnage was somewhat entertaining because of Barnes’ return to his …
Originally written by Ty Brookman After 20 plus years and 13 studio albums later the Iron Maiden tour de force return with the follow up to 2000’s epically dominate, Brave New World. An album that …
