Tag: 20 Buck Spin
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild Review
To tell you about Egregore’s second album, I’d like to first talk about wildness. If you traipse back to heavy metal’s origins, it was about wildness, right? “Helter Skelter,” Blue Cheer’s take on “Summertime Blues,” …
Species – Changelings Review
[Album artwork by Aleksandra Pawłowska] Earlier this year, I finally grabbed the limited edition CD reissues of the early works from Montréal, Canada’s very excellent Obliveon—one of those oft-overlooked projects that arrived somewhat late for …
Bedsore – Dreaming The Strife For Love Review
[Cover art by Denis Forkas Kostromitin] Bands often telegraph when significant shifts in their sound are imminent. No one who truly paid attention to Ghost Reveries and Watershed was particularly shocked by the full dive into 70’s …
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia Review
[Cover art by Kikyz1313] Prolificacy is an oft-lauded trait for bands in the metal world. We are constant consumers on the lookout for more tasty morsels to glut our filthy musical maws, so bands that …
Fulci – Duck Face Killings Review
[Cover artwork by Wes Benscoter] If it walks like a duck…quacks like a duck…and riffs(?) like a duck… it’s probably… Fulci! Born June 17, 1927, in Rome, Italy, Lucio Fulci spent 69 years on this …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 3
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up all the metallic greatness we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Tzompantli – Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force Review
[Cover artwork by Adam Burke] I’m amped. You know that feeling you get after listening to a piece of music that really gets the blood flowing? The kind that could push you to survive some …
Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum Review
From the bookend EPs Poisoned Blood in 2017 to Abhorrent Rapture in 2021, Witch Vomit has been a good and sometimes great band. I don’t own a ton of death metal on vinyl, but I …