Generally Impressed With Riffs
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 their sophomore album, while the …
[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 …
My feelings on DevilDriver have been well documented on this site, so I’ll leave a lot of the background information out of this one. I will say that it has been interesting not only watching …
Originally written by Jason Jordan. Originally issued in 1999, We Are the Romans was Botch’s second full-length, but to the chagrin of many, was also their last. Though the breakup occurred two years after the release of this, …
Originally written by Jason Jordan. Along with Coalesce, Converge, and The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tacoma’s defunct Botch are renowned in -core circles, and are rightfully namedropped whenever anything even remotely chaotic is up for discussion. Hydra Head began reissuing their discography last …
If anyone deserves to benefit from the current resurgence (read: commercial viability) of thrash, it’s a band like Overkill. These originators have been hard at it for two decades; not collapsing under egos and superstar expectations, …
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: If placed in a Hostel 2, genital removing situation and forced to name two of the best unsigned bands no one has ever heard of, I’d easily go with The Pax Cecilia and The …
Originally written by Michael Roberts. Before I begin it should be made clear that I only have a passing knowledge and appreciation of the ‘progressive death metal’ sub-genre. To be more specific, Death’s Symbolic is about as out-there …
Originally written by Keith Fox. I’m apparently missing out on something, because I can’t find many serious negative reviews of this album. Everyone is eating it up, calling it either a magnificent return to form …
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: The last time I dealt with Belgium’s Thurisaz was their self released Scent of a Dream effort, which was a vaguely folk/pagan mishmash of gothic metal, black metal and melodic death metal. It …
