Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Cover art by Quinn Henderson] You’re familiar with the term, “unc,” right? If not, it generally refers to a washed up older feller whose personality in large part revolves around extravagantly performing confusion and/or displeasure at the mere notion of …
[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 …
Originally written by Ramar Pittance If this was Pitchfork Media or Stylus Magazine, I would be telling you about potentially the most important album you could hear all year. Fucked Up’sHidden World is 72 minutes of meticulously composed …
Originally written by Jon Eardley Axel Rudi Pell…for what it’s worth I’m going into this review as blind as a bat when it comes to the latest output from this legendary German thrasher/guitar extraordinaire as …
originally written by Jim Brandon Before tapping this review out this morning, I broke out Scars Of The Crucifix after months of neglect from my being bombarded with new releases, one of them being Deicide’s …
Doug Moore’s take: Dismember. Nile. Arch Enemy. Bolt Thrower (lord, do they ever). Dying Fetus. Fear Factory. Exodus. Hatebreed. Phobia. Deicide. Vader. And hell, even Slayer. What do all of these bands have in common? …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Amid all the large name metal releases that saw the light of day on August 22nd, 2006, one that might slip under the radar is the sophomore effort from Ohio’s Mouth …
Originally written by Erik Thomas After the crushing, debut EP, Null from this supergroup of sorts (Intronautboasts members of Impaled, Anubis Rising and Uphill Battle), Void was definitely one of my most anticipated releases of the great CD explosion of August 22, 2006. …
originally written by Jim Brandon I really hate giving a history lesson at the start of my reviews, but in this case, it’s more than warranted. Sulaco is a Rochester 3-piece decimation unit consisting of …
originally written by Jim Brandon For those of you hoping Mercenary would release 11 Dreams Pt.2 with their greatly anticipated followup, The Hours That Remain, you probably won’t be getting what you’re looking for. Just …
