Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Artwork by Caroline Harrison] “Nonsense” opens with a slow fade-in of distorted guitars and seismic drums — the chaos before the swarm. It’s a trick of the trade, the extreme metal equivalent of a camera operator calling out “speed” before …
[Cover artwork by Luca “Zeero” Zironi] There was always something uniquely charming about Konquest’s brand of traditional heavy metal—an almost whimsical breeziness that still felt like a near perfect balance of playful and substantive. A long-lost Italian cousin to Sweden’s …
[Cover art by Beyond Art] There are bad musical moods, and then there’s Mylingar. Over the course of the last decade this group of anonymous Swedes has concocted the type of ill-meaning black/death that makes Diocletian seem like a Care …
[Cover artwork by Subhuman at Desert Dungeon] Let’s talk about our love for quirky metal. Okay, sure, any definable level of ‘quirk’ is obviously subjective, but I’m guessing you know we’re not talking about the guy who loves The Black …
Going into this without having heard a single one of these re-recorded versions of the Bonded By Blood classics, I was fairly certain this record didn’t need to exist. Like a lot of old farts, …
Originally written by Sasha Horn This just isn’t that good……. …….by Haunted standards. By any other name, it’s a solid output. But “solid output” here and now translates to “waste removal”. And it breaks my …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell This self-titled, self-released EP (“…back in my day, we called these things demos!” – Some Old Dude) comes courtesy of Philadelphia’s The Claw. And while they may be yet another recent …
So as I was driving into work the other day, Soulfly’s latest release calming my road rage-frazzled nerves, it suddenly occurred to me that I had been preparing for this review all wrong. It being …
originally written by Chris McDonald Ultra bleak, depressing black metal is becoming peculiarly popular these days, as evidenced by the rise in prominence of bands like Xasthur and the steady stream of pale and frail …
Wow. After hearing the first two songs from the sophomore effort from Grayceon, I promptly picked my jaw up off the floor and immediately kicked myself for not heeding the universal–and I do mean universal–praise and …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell I felt somewhat obligated to review this Australian collective’s demo, simply because I have the band’s name tattooed on my forearm. If you want to know why I got it, …
Originally written by Michael Roberts. Intronaut have always been a band on the peripheral for me. As impressive as their previous releases are, for some reason they haven’t stayed with me. I always felt these guys …
