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 …
originally written by Chris McDonald I was a bit hesitant to sign up for this at first, as this is my first real experience listening to Mouth of the Architect and I’m generally not big …
originally written by Chris McDonald Now here’s a band that’s been trending upward. While Prostitute Disfigurement’s early albums were fairly typical over-the-top gore-grind efforts, 2005’s Left In Grisly Fashion was something of a revelation for …
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: I’m always a little leery of critiquing albums that involve folks I know, in this case former Metal Review staffer Jeremy Garner. Even more so because this album kinda sat in …
As you can likely guess from the title, Metal Of Death / The Advocation Of Murder And Suicide is a compilation of sorts, a rerecording of a previous EP (Metal Of Death) with the addition …
Originally written by Michael Roberts. It’s kind of a rare thing for a band to continue to improve after six or seven albums. More often than not we’ll see an act peaking somewhere between their …
Originally written by Sasha Horn I have created the perfect Neuraxis album. It was only a click, drag, and drop away. I’m thinking about calling it Trilateral Thin Lines, or maybe Stuck Between A Live …
originally written by Thomas Creager It should be a well established fact to anyone remotely familiar with the critical appraisal of the arts that the volume of content produced by the world at large is …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell “Don’t judge a band by their looks!” scream the HM PC crew, “…metal isn’t about image”. Nor is it about being flippantly judgmental, so I suppose there is some merit …
