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 Michael Roberts. Now that the party-crashing hipsters have well and truly deserted it for whatever this month’s flavor is, for those of us who still love our metalcore it’s time to clean …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell There was a time, roughly 2-3 years ago, that Willowtip was absolutely unfuckwithable. The label put out a handful of records that would set the standard for the death metal to come …
Things seem to be going pretty well in the Darkthrone camp. Nocturno and family are tucked away in the middle of Nowhere, Norway doing cozy-cuddly family things, and Fenriz is living comfortably enough to toss …
Originally written by Sasha Horn Self-professed “abrasive grind/powerviolence” trio drops debut album, In Narcosis, and succeeds in both being abrasive and powerfully violent. What else is new. Maruta have left the kind of impression that …
Originally written by Michael Roberts. Beneath The Massacre’s first album Mechanics of Dysfunction was a technical marvel but a frustratingly sterile affair song-wise. I loved and hated it in equal measure. So now the follow-up Dystopia has landed and the …
originally written by Chris McDonald Most progressive bands eventually reach a point where their fans will become divided for good. That one album where the band in question, who has been hinting at major stylistic …
Originally written by Kris Yancey As this is my first time hearing an Omnium Gatherum album, I would like to acknowledge the band’s rocky past with the two albums following Spirits and August Light, Omnium …
Originally written by Kris Yancey Add Bison B.C. to a slowly-expanding list of great modern stoner-sludge metal bands. What makes the average sludge band a good sludge band is the art of the riff, an …
