Generally Impressed With Riffs
[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 …
[Cover artwork by The Blacksmith] I will freely admit that anonymity when it comes to art largely puzzles me, particularly as it relates to music. Aliased with some sort of elaborate costume? There’s potential there; who doesn’t love a little …
Let me make something perfectly clear before we get going. Not only does Mgla not give a shit about what anyone has to say about its new album, Exercises in Futility; it also doesn’t care about your parents …
Originally written by Doug Moore. Does it seem to anyone out there that metal is getting gradually heavier on average? The standards for speed, technicality, and (of course) brutality seem to edge just a bit …
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 …
