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 Jason Jordan. I doubt I’ll ever get the chance to use so many puns again, within a review introduction, so I’m going to capitalize on the opportunity. It could be said that …
Drew Ailes’s take: Alright, here it goes. Anyone who’s read any of my reviews knows how much I hate albums that overstay their welcome. Needless to say, when I saw the playing time of 53 …
Originally written by Jason Jordan. I was way off on this. I know it’s not good to judge a band by their name, but I thought I’d be getting something like Genghis Tron because End of Level Boss appears …
Originally written by Patrick Dawson There are among us men born with the will to create, and available to these souls are many roads; roads that do not all lead to desirable ends. Nowhere are …
Originally written by Justin Bean. Reviewing a band such as Centinex is always a pleasure; it’s damn near a guarantee that I won’t be disappointed with what I hear. I might even thoroughly enjoy it and think …
“Freakazoid” was a mid-90s cartoon about a teen named Dexter who was transformed into a crazy superhero thanks to some sort of weird computer virus. The blue-skinned, big-haired Freakazoid combined the typical Warner Bros. comedy …
Originally written by Jason Jordan. Is it safe to come out now? Ever since I heard the first few notes of Twilight, I’ve been hiding under my bed. For BM fans, the culmination of some of …
Geez, for a band that spends a fair amount of time playing so slowly, YOB sure works quickly. Beginning with their sophomore effort in 2003, not a year has gone by without another offering of mountainous modern …
