Generally Impressed With Riffs
[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 …
[Cover Artwork by Julia Proszowska] Something about the internet that only occurred to me recently is that it’s changed the way we think about death. Like just about everything else, the very notion of death has lost so much of …
It’s been a good year for thrash. Early on, we got new albums from Death Angel and Testament, and now we’re getting a new one from Destruction – how awesome is that? They raised a lot of …
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Alright, this one’s been simmering in the tank for a while. Letting A Dead Heavy Day fester and swell for a decent amount of time was an act of fairness, due to …
Filmed live at London’s Hammersmith Odeon on the Among The Living tour, Oidivnikufesin (henceforth referred to as “Oidiv”) captures Anthrax at the creative peak of the 80s thrash wave, riding high on the success of …
I’ll open the review with what you’re all already thinking: Deeply Confused is among the lamest band names I’ve heard of late. I’m sure they hear that quite a bit, although apparently not often enough …
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 …
