Tag: Fer De Lance
Best of 2025: Chris C – Finding Renewal In A Cyclical Escapism
As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have …
Best Of 2025: Blizzard Of Jozzsh – Your Anger Is A Gift
In these end-of-year recaps, I try to wrap up with an overarching takeaway that extends beyond just music. Last year, I parodied the idea of extraterrestrial life because it was dominating headlines. This year, I …
Fer De Lance – Fires On The Mountainside Review
The Second City: home to the sad, sad American football franchise, the Chicago Bears. The funny thing about Bears fans is that they’re always living in 1985–the year and season coinciding with their legendary defense …
Best Of 2022 – Chris C.: Special Tunes From Metal Goons
We live in strange times—said everyone, ever, right now. Like literally everyone. No one has not said this. Even the strange people contributing to said strangeness recognize these are strange times in their own strange …
Best Of 2022 – Ryan Tysinger: Lifelong Journeys For Technicolor Vapors
First of all, forgive the self-indulgence. These words could be inscribed atop any list, any review, any critique; yet they beg to be uttered. After all, it’s a fundamental rule in critical writing: don’t use …
Best Of 2022 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
I have spent the better part of a full morning kicking over rocks in all the corners of my brain in an attempt to recall any sort of crucial trends, significant controversies or major Pants-Filling …
Fer De Lance – The Hyperborean Review
[Artwork by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration] Listening to the debut full-length from Chicago’s Fer de Lance is akin to witnessing the epic origin story for the US interpretation of Germany’s Atlantean Kodex, but with …