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 …
I didn’t pick this EP for review. I didn’t roll it randomly with my magic reviewer 20 sided DnD dice. This is not really my review at all. But what got me on this site, …
Originally written by Chris Chellis. As pleasantly thick as Mariah Carey, Black Cobra’s first full-length, a heavy slab of doom/sludgecore, sees guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian and drummer Rafael Martinez not only paying tribute but contributing to a …
Originally written by Chris Chellis. As a longhaired, greasy teenager I grasped the Melvin’s Houdini with feverish hands, like it was a secret passage of the Bible intended specifically for the sons of atheist parents. Kurt Cobain’s legend …
Originally written by Chris Chellis. With little knowledge or experience in black metal, I am not the most ideal candidate for reviewing a Kampfar album. None of my top 10 albums of all time would come from …
I am unfond of Christianity and some of the people who practice it, as well. So something does appeal to me about the single mindedness of some black metal acts. In true metal fashion they …
Matthew Cooper’s take: More often than not, the word “progressive” is used as a locator, a sonic line of demarcation, rather than an actual meaningful descriptor. The word is tailor made for Enslaved, a band …
Chris Sessions’ take: Better. SO much better. Aiden and Surrender of Divinity kind of took a little of my love for the job down the fucking toilet with the rest of the indigestible artificial additives …
Originally written by Chris Chellis. I will never understand how Maniac Neil of Blood Freak makes the time for food or sleep. Drinking I understand, as any simpleton can enslave another and force them to feed them …
