Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Cover art by Mars Triumph] Petrichor, the sixth full length album from Greece’s epic metal stalwarts Battlelore, commences with the sound of rain and an invitation to reflect. That word, “petrichor,” is a relatively new one (coined by scientists in …
To start, let’s acknowledge that you and I don’t really know each other. This means, among other things, that I can’t say what “war metal” means to you. To some extent, maybe you just throw your hands in the air …
Kia ora, compadres. Welcome to the latest edition of In Crust We Trust. Below you’ll find a bunch of ear-wrecking noise to help you process and/or drown out the 24/7 horror show currently occupying our screens. Wherever you are, and …
Cryptworm’s third LP, Infectious Pathological Waste, quite charmingly arrives at the perfect time for yours truly; the deeper, choppier musical waters I’ve been swimming in the past few weeks have made for an often rewarding but exhaustingly challenging adventure. Conversely, …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon This has to go down as one of the more unusual metal releases in recent history. For those that aren’t current on the state of the Crown, they decided to …
It’s Bloodbath, which means a certain homage will be paid to your Death Metal heroes while getting all the advantages that modern recording techniques can deliver. If you are me, that means you are going …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Fuzzed out, stoner doom has never really been my thing, but when laced with slivers of grating extremity and a caustic sense of foreboding, it creates an overall ambience I …
Considering how often I bitch about things that obviously sound precisely like other things the following review should make everyone cry “hypocrite” and complain and whine and bitch and cry. Which is aces with me. …
Originally written by Ryan Plunkett It’s not often you come across a label that has its debut release with this much power. Harlots’ debut album, The Woman You Saw is the Great City that Rules …
Black metal. What is the appeal? It doesn’t die, and doesn’t change, so someone somewhere is really digging it. And digging it just the way it is…or was. Sloppy, thin, tedious. I do not pretend …
I was late hearing about Mastodon’s Remission album, so that by the time I was listening to and amazing over that record it was sort of old news and the inevitable backtalk about it had …
Originally written by Gregory Bradley. The more a metalcore band focuses on the “metal” rather than the “core”, the better it turns out. This is the essence of the latest album from Heaven Shall Burn, entitled Antigone. …
