Tag: Doom
Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden Review
For any band, the stakes are rarely higher than when writing a second album. Writing a second album when one’s debut reaped a groundswell of attention and near-universal acclaim, then, is surely an even more …
Yob – Clearing The Path To Ascend Review
After wearing a doom crown of their own design for years with monstrous albums such The Unreal Never Lived, YOB made their first real attempt at change in years (other than that brief breakup) with …
Cardinal Wyrm – Black Hole Gods Review
On the surface, Oakland, CA’s Cardinal Wyrm is a doom band cut from a similar cloth as ye Finnish acts of olde (and not-so-olde): Songs that primarily embrace loooong, marbled Rev Biz and Spiritus Mortis …
Incantation – Dirges Of Elysium Review
Each snowflake supposedly possesses its own unique crystalline structure that differentiates it from all other snowflakes, but from a couple feet away you can’t tell one flake from the next: all you see is white …
Vallenfyre – Splinters Review
The deeper one explores the vast universe of music’s possible varieties, the less time is generally reserved for that which is intentionally regressive in nature. I love the old school as much as the next …
Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica Review
Epic crust punk seems like a misnomer. But of course, the spirit of punk rock is one of belief shaking and rule breaking, even if that spirit is oft forgotten by those who strictly adhere …
Pilgrim – II: Void Worship Review
Pilgrim’s 2012 debut, Misery Wizard, was the exact type of album you’d see discussed enthusiastically by hardcore fans of a particular style, ignored by most everyone else, and largely forgotten within a short time. Not …
Lord Mantis – Death Mask Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Decadence and irreverence have never been in short commodity among metalheads, and I tend to think our beloved scene filters its audience at a fairly respectable pace. The hangers-on drop …