Generally Impressed With Riffs
If the band name and the album title and the album cover and songs like “Frothed Vomit Slosh” and “Globs Of Glimmering Gore” didn’t clue you in already… well, what we’ve got here is goregrind, kids, that wondrous blend of …
When a band’s influences are on the stranger side, can that band still claim to be strange, or are they just pulling from the weirdos that came before? Well, in the case of the Texas foursome Labyrinthine Heirs, the answer …
The one and only concession I will make to any Cradle of Filth haters out there in the course of this review is that a pretty decent burn on Dani Filth’s get-up in the promo photo for the Filthlings ca. …
There’s an old Cherokee proverb my grandma used to paraphrase: Inside each of us, there are two wolves. One is evil, representing anger, envy, greed, arrogance, resentment, lies, and ego. The other is good, representing joy, peace, love, hope, humility, …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Just when I think hardcore is getting stale, and I’m waiting for that one album that will officially declare hardcore a dead genre, along comes San Francisco’s Animosity with an …
Originally written by Tim Pigeon 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . and here we go. Superjoint Ritual is the umpteenth metal project of Phil Anselmo, but it’s his primary focus right now. Neither groove-laden …
Originally written by Gregory Bradley. After the initial shock of recruiting a singer who is as beautiful as she is deadly on the mic, Arch Enemy needed an album to let the world know that …
Funeral doom is a whole area of music I am more or less unfamiliar with, apart from a little My Dying Bride – if they are even considered funeral doom. So with this release from …
Originally written by Ryan Plunkett Gorgoroth is a name synonymous with evil. Forming in the early nineties, they arrive in 2003 with their sixth full-length release, Twilight of the Idols. Anyone that listens to black …
Originally written by Dan Staige. You have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to Rune. If you are diagnosed w/ bi-polar disorder it would be very helpful, as would good ol’ …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Recently, a non-metal friend asked me to recommend some of my more “tame” material for him to listen to – something with nifty guitar work, some real singing, and no …
Originally written by Erik Thomas Damned to be forever tied to Dying Fetus musically, Misery Index has two huge obstacles to overcome. First, to shed the Dying Fetus mantle and become a band recognized for …
