Tag: Death
Heteropsy – Embalming Review
Mankind has a great history of discovering how two great tastes taste great together. From the Reese’s Cup to putting some really good slaw on a pulled pork sandwich, we know the value of adding …
Barren Path – Grieving Review
The concept of a grindcore guitar god is a little bit silly to me, considering the rawness and punk ethos involved in the style overall… but then again, this is a sub-genre built on the …
Dysentery – Dejection Chrysalis Review
[Artwork by Hidris] There’s something to embracing simplicity. In a style demanding an arms race toward an endgame of mutually assured absurdity, Dysentery, on Dejection Chrysalis, the band’s newest LP and first excretion in 10 …
Cemican – U k’u’uk’ankil Mayakaaj Review
The great and terrible thing about music is that anybody can make it. Literally, any body: right now, friend, you can tap your feet or hum a tune or pluck a rubber band and make …
Umulamahri – Learning The Secrets Of Acid Review
[Album artwork by fleshflies] If Conan The Sumerian had pursued The Secret of Acid in lieu of The Riddle of Steel, Conan The Barbarian would have been a very different film. Like, eat shit, Wheel …
Diamonds & Rust: Disharmonic Orchestra – Expositionsprophylaxe (Um, Gesundheit)
[Album artwork by Martin Messner and Patrick Klopf] Perhaps you’ve noticed by now that these Diamonds & Rust treatments have a tendency to dip into a sort of narcissistic form of self-interest when generated by …
Amorphis – Borderland Review
You do something for thirty-plus years, and you get pretty good at it. Case in point: Finland’s thirty-five-year-old progressive metal wizards Amorphis. After starting out in a more death metal direction, over the last few …
Paradise Lost – Ascension Review
It might be hard to believe, but Paradise Lost’s return to their doom/death roots on The Plague Within is now a full decade old. This makes them almost double veterans of their own sound, now …