Tag: Crucial Blast
Four to Score Across – the Black Spectrum
Our on-again-off-again Four to Score series typically features four reviews of albums we may have missed, each by a different member of the Last Rites staff. This time? All from yours truly, and all quick …
Fistula – Goat Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Serial killers are such a wonderful thing to hear about bright and early on the morning news. Everything is pretty much uphill for the rest of your day after that, and …
SubArachnoid Space – Eight Bells Review
Instrumental space-rock unit SubArachnoid Space returns with their ninth full-length of grooving, crashing, fx-laden psychedelia. From the opening cascade of “Lilith,” with its snaky bassline beneath twisting drums and swirling guitars, the band’s sound is …
Gnaw Their Tongues – An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood Review
Originally written by Chris Chellis. To say that I was not expecting what I heard on An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood would be the kind of understatement that takes on a life of its own, walking slyly …
Year Of No Light – Nord Review
originally written by John Hearn “Official website for the French hardcore band Year of No Light” Sérieusement? I might not know much about hardcore, but I’m certain that Year of No Light don’t play it. In …
Monarch! – Dead Men Tell No Tales Review
Originally written by Ian Chainey Alright. In the interest of not wasting your time, I’ll come clean at the very beginning: Monarch! plays droning sludgy doom (Khanate, Buried at Sea, Moss, etc.), a genre I …
Totimoshi – Ladron Review
Originally written by Jason Jordan. I agreed wholeheartedly with Mooring’s assessment of Totimoshi’s ¿Mysterioso? (2001). The Crucial Blast reissue (2005) of their second full-length served as my introduction too, and though I commended the quirkiness of ¿Mysterioso?, I felt the word …
Across Tundras – Dark Songs Of The Prairie Review
originally written by Jim Brandon It’s fair to say I go a little overboard on the adjectives in some of my reviews, and if there was ever and album to give the creative treatment to, …