Tag: Riverside

Best Of 2023 – Chris C: A Little Spicy
I thought that as I got older—accounting for the assumed wealth of experience I would undoubtedly have by this advanced age—my tastes would expand. I would become this living, breathing Encyclopedia of all things refined. …

Best Of 2023: Andrew Edmunds – I Used To Be Indecisive, But Now I’m Not Sure
So the stupid title that I gave this thing is both a terrible dad joke and a sad truth, in the sense of that, whenever I’m compelled to make these year-end lists (which seems to …

Best Of 2023 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
“HEY, WHERE THE HELL IS [INSERT ALBUM TITLE], YOU EMPTY-HEADED MONSTERS” We go through this every year, no? You see the Best Of lists begin to drop from all the usual suspects, and the first …

Riverside – ID.Entity Review
[Cover art by Jarek Kubicki] Pop psychology has always moved big money with stories and strategies and tricks of the trade for keeping one’s chin up even through the most trying of times. Heck, some …

Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine Review
Riverside has always been known as a progressive metal band. In truth, that’s always been a bit of a stretch, and to no one’s surprise, their sixth long player, Love, Fear and the Time Machine, …

John Ray’s Top 20 Of 2009
First, my apologies for being so late with this. Thing is, I spent the last couple of weeks battling an upper respiratory infection and simultaneous nasal staph infection. If you’ve never had the pleasure of …