Tag: Personal Records
Cryptorium – Descent Into Lunacy Review
We’re nearing the end of 2024. Minds collectively swimming. Gasping for air. The 50-odd records we’re still getting to know in one hand. The few records we’ve decided are our anchor this year in the …
Plasmodulated – Plasmodulated Review
[Logo and Artwork by GruesomeGraphx] If you’re familiar at all with some of science fiction’s most amazing biological transformation machines, you’ll remember that virtually none of them was able to produce the monumental change for …
Survival Instinct – Fatal Venin Review
So the first question that comes to mind when I look at this absurd and kind of awesome cover art is: Is this a gigantic cobra… or a very smol man? The second question, of …
Nullification ‒ Kingdoms to Hovel Review
Cover art by Ov Exvn Infërnvz. A lot of metal bands wear their influences on their sleeves, sometimes literally in the form of a long-sleeve t-shirt with 15 logos on each arm. Much rarer are …
Wharflurch – Psychedelic Realms Ov Hell Review
DID YOU KNOW… ? – Sarah McLachlan once recorded a cover of Morbid Angel’s “Chapel of Ghouls” for a scrapped ASPCA commercial benefiting neglected swamp monsters. Florida’s tentacular hooligans Wharflurch have at last heaved forth …
Hagel ‒ Veneration of the Black Light Review
The African elephant has the longest known gestation period of any animal on our Blue Dot at about 645 days, which isn’t too far away from rounding up to an even two years. It takes …
Spellforger – Upholders Of Evil Review
Looking at Spellforger’s name, logo and giant lava-snake cover art, it would be fair for you to mistakenly think this is a power metal album. Hell, take a look at Paladin’s cover in last week’s …
Wharflurch – Shitslime Review
Some are born gross, some achieve grossness, and others have grossness thrust upon them. With apologies to ol’ Bill Shakespeare, Florida’s brilliantly named Wharflurch may as well have knocked down all three of those grossness …