Generally Impressed With Riffs
Hello and welcome back to yet another Last Rites List Season (copyright pending). Today we present our annual delve into our favorites of The Short Stuff: extended plays (that’s what EP stands for), 7-inch splits, demos, and the like. These …
So, the thing about art is… it’s weird, right? Music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, yodeling, all of it. A human urge to express the inarticulable? Sure, grandpa. A desperate attempt to wrest some sort of permanence out of the face …
“You mock my pain!” “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” We Have the Power is a unique pain. One of life’s good pains, fortunately—like soreness from some good exercise. It looms every year around August, …
We’re nearing the end of 2024. Minds collectively swimming. Gasping for air. The 50-odd records we’re still getting to know in one hand. The few records we’ve decided are our anchor this year in the other. Confusing times, my friend. …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon It’s how the same old thing can look in a different light. I was first introduced to Portugal’s Moonspell last year with their release Darkness and Hope. Apparently, it did …
Originally written by Erik Thomas “Rest assured, this is sincere, this is true”. Never have truer words been spoken, and as those words signal the beginning of Shai Hulud’s eagerly anticipated, much delayed second album, …
I like this CD. It’s not great, but I like it. It’s probably Metalcore with a few keyboard noises. It might even be NuMetal, if you still believe in that shit. It’s got a little …
As much as I don’t get into black metal bands, I DO get into death metal bands, so reviewing a CD by Krisiun is just as problematic but for the opposite reason. My intellectual side …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Where do I start? Georgia’s Canvas Solaris is purely instrumental visage not dissimilar to Gordian Knot, but with a different approach to their particular delivery of cosmic themed cerebral instrumentation. …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon Robb Flynn and the boys have returned for a fifth round and there are some welcomed changes afoot. Even Robb admitted that 2001’s Supercharger was a flop, perhaps slightly due …
Well, fucking all right. Burnt by the Sun has made a CD with “Ancient” written all over it and I get to review it. Kismet? Fate? Destiny? I suppose it’s for greater minds than I …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Check the band name: that’s right, Prostitute Disfigurement. Check the cover: Giger-ish alien zombie thingy crouching over a naked, no-doubt recently violated, and bleeding buxom babe. Check out the song …
