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 Sasha Horn Ruination is not your little sister’s Job For A Cowboy. But there’s just no pleasing some of you, and for alot of us, we don’t even have little sisters, so …
In the last three decades, Firebird guitarist / vocalist / mastermind Bill Steer has been a part of two bands that forever changed the face of extreme music. Firebird isn’t one of them. Not that Firebird …
Every once in a while an album comes along that isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, but also doesn’t conveniently fit into any particular genre or sub-genre. A good example of this was Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius, which …
The Light-Devouring Darkness is thirty minutes of pure fucking ugly. Archgoat has no use for melody, no time for harmony and no tolerance for catchiness. Lord Angelslayer’s vocals are so gutturally deep as to be …
Next up in the cavalcade of thrash revivals: Artillery. If you don’t know, the Danish thrashers released a couple of good albums in the 80’s that borrowed a bit from the happening scenes of the …
Some serious down ‘n’ dirty grindcore, New York’s Defeatist is comprised of former members of Kalibas and Anodyne. The band’s first release on Willowtip, Sharp Blade isn’t new material but a collection of the band’s …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell In comparison with other English-speaking territories, metal bands that hail from Australia seem to have a greater propensity for kicking ass–though whether there’s more to this phenomenon than happenstance is …
originally written by Chris McDonald After a fanbase-dividing album such as Pelican’s oft-maligned 2007 full-length City of Echoes, reassuring releases like the Ephemeral EP are a great thing. I wasn’t among those who questioned whether …
