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 Chris McDonald This is my first experience with Týr, an outfit who’s garnered an unusual amount of popularity given their remote origins and their familiar guitar-playing-Viking shtick. I was interested in finding …
originally written by Jim Brandon Shimmer, and shine. Lengthen, and volumize. Target, and utterly destroy: these are the blueprints for the basic Neur-Isis sound that has birthed dozens of ebb and flow enthusiasts of various …
I like Ripper Owens, and I do so despite that I, like everyone else, was introduced to him when he emerged from obscurity to sing on the two worst Judas Priest records. I don’t know …
Originally written by Ross Main. There was a period back in March where I hated my job and was extremely bored of my life. The only thing that would cheer me between a pointless slug …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Allegedly a “mysterious, clandestine collective of Swedish black/death metal scene legends,” the foursome that comprise Horde of Hel have chosen to cloak themselves in anonymity. While the mildly astute could deduce a …
A quick check of the googles for Nahemah will yield several results that tag the band as progressive death metal. There has been some mild but entirely warranted debate over how appropriate this label is, …
Originally written by Sasha Horn Don’t ask me why I had a good feeling about this one. I just did. For absolutely no reason. And having spent this last week with it, it can be …
posted on 6/2009 By: Jordan Campbell Let’s get one thing out of the way: I’m a total Devin Townsend geek. Roughly a decade ago, Strapping Young Lad‘s City cracked my skull open and imbedded itself in my frontal lobe, and I’ve been …
