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 …
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: It’s Manowar. Posers leave the hall… Review: All fur clad, homoerotic gesturing aside, heavy metal stalwarts Manowar are arguably one of the most polarizing heavy metal bands on the planet. You either …
Originally written by Ramar Pittance “Orphaned.” It’s probably the most perfect piece of music I have ever heard in my life. That fact that music fans aren’t quitting their jobs and killing their families so …
During a time when US-based metal labels were mostly searching for the next meaner, faster, more extreme band, Arlington, Texas’ Solitude Aeturnus epitomized the much less popular doom slant. This left the band with very …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon It’s always a pleasure and a challenge to review a band with as lengthy a catalogue and as wide a following as My Dying Bride. Fortunately, I own a few of …
Originally written by Chris Chellis. This is an interesting release for me because I have had the good fortune of seeing this band grow at an alarming rate. I was first introduced to For Ruin through a …
Originally written by Jeremy Garner At first I had absolutely no clue why it had taken me so long to finally get around to reviewing this one (not that it’s sat in my to do …
Originally written by Jeremy Garner It’s been six years since Warp Zone was released and followed with a showering of praise from critics and fans alike. I’d like to think it apparent that I’m one …
Originally written by Ramar Pittance I think most metal fans know a band or two like Skeletonwitch. Either they practiced in your dormitory’s basement while you were in college, lived a few doors down from you …
