Generally Impressed With Riffs
Because I love few things more than an absurd challenge that requires no physical effort, one of my goals in 2025 is to listen to the entire Agathocles discography, or at least, as much of it as is readily available. …
Put down that chainsaw and listen to meIt’s time for us to join in the fight —”Weird” Al Yankovic I gotta say, I’m pretty envious of the little band of musicians from Australia that make up the likes of Tarot, …
[Cover art by Maegan LeMay] Now one certainly doesn’t need any special context to understand the appeal of Ego Dissolution, Walpole, Massachusetts-based Ancient Death’s debut LP after an EP and a split. If you’ll go ahead and cut to the …
If you even just casually perused the somewhat distant corners of conversations about modern melodic death metal, you’d inevitably hear about Buried Realm – an impressive, riff-oriented one-person project out of Colorado. That one person being Josh Dummer. To Dummer’s …
Originally written by Gregory Bradley. In this time of a serious drought for decent power metal here in the United States, I thank the metal gods for bringing this album upon me. While not the …
You’ve all heard it before: some member of some not-so-extreme metal band announces that they are forming a new band that is going to be totally heavy, totally extreme, and totally metal. Furthermore, we all …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Sometimes you just know you won’t like an album: from the name of the band, member names (Warslaughter, Sir Torment, Sodomizer), the logo, the song titles and the contained promotional …
Originally written by Erik Thomas You know McDonalds right? You know it’s processed, synthetic and blatantly disposable. But despite these facts, you enjoy a Big Mac, even though you’ve had hundreds of them? Well, The …
Just fucking brilliant execution. A good band writes some good songs, then performs and records them with passion, depth, skill and style. All this is mixed and mastered in a way that preserves and enhances …
Originally written by Erik Thomas A folk metal band from Norway with a vast array of guest performers; is this Asmegin reincarnated? Not too far off, but no. Lumsk, while certainly folk metal, are not …
Originally written by Ian Dreilinger. It’s always been a wonder how people can manage to stand so loyally by styles of music where bands that sound exactly the same keep putting out albums that sound …
Every now and then, an album comes along that fills you with an indescribable feeling, and all you can do is sit back and listen in sheer awe. When that album comes from right out …
