Tag: Relapse
Tombs – Path Of Totality Review
Tombs’ second album stares the notion of a ‘sophomore slump’ straight in the face, politely clears its throat, and then sets said notion on fire using nothing but its will and an unlit match. But …
Death – Human (Reissue) Review
originally written by Jim Brandon There is no denying the importance and influence that the body of work from the late Chuck Schuldiner has contributed to the lexicon of American death metal like no other …
Red Fang – Murder The Mountains Review
Northwestern stoner act Red Fang first crossed my radar brilliantly with the comical video for “Prehistoric Dog,” a send-up of Ren-Fair faux-fencing types with a killer riff-driven stoner-metal tune to match. But while “Dog” was …
Weekend Nachos – Worthless Review
Worthless is the Relapse debut for Chicago-area power-violence outfit Weekend Nachos, and worthless it is not. With appropriately thick-toned guitars and ever-shifting tempos, the band lurches through fourteen tracks as indebted to tar-coated sludge as …
Haemorrhage – Hospital Carnage Review
Alongside Americans Exhumed and Impaled, Spain’s Haemorrhage is among the first bands that spring to mind when I hear the term “Carcass worship.” Between the medical-dictionary gore themes, the gruesome death / grind and the …
Rabbits – Lower Forms Review
Portland’s Rabbits inhabits (zing!) a scuzzy middle ground between sludge metal and noise rock. Lower Forms is never quite distorted enough nor packed with actual riffs to claim the sludge tag, but it’s quite a …
Obscura – Omnivium Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas You’ve got to love the state of tech-death metal right now. You’ve got titans like Decrepit Birth, Gorod and Obscura pushing each other and outdoing each other with each release, …
Death – The Sound of Perseverance (Reissue) Review
Originally written by Justin Bean. There are plenty of albums out there that could benefit from being remastered and re-released, but Death’s The Sound of Perseverance wasn’t on my list. However, being that the album is — in …