Tag: Rock
Metallica – Hardwired… To Self Destruct Review
If ever an album title accurately described Metallica’s past two decades, there it is… There’s no need to rehash in any significant depth those past twenty years, of course – if you’re here now, you’ve …
Opeth – Sorceress Review
When dealing with dynamic and complex systems, it is a nearly inevitable conclusion that the only real constant we can universally count on is the aspect of change. Despite the empirical knowledge that anomalies exist, …
Lotus Thief – Gramarye Review
The most important fact to dispense with here is that Gramarye is a beautiful album. No prefix, no qualification, no caveat: beautiful, full stop. Although two of Lotus Thief’s members also play in Botanist, the …
High Spirits – Motivator Review
There’s just so many things on a given day that I do not want to do. Work. Pay bills. Mow the lawn. Shower. I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that’s true for …
Beelzefuzz – The Righteous Bloom Review
Our dear mums were right: We’re all special snowflakes. We are unique, we have varied opinions and values, and perhaps most importantly, we have exceptionally uncommon taste in art, particularly music. Remember when Janice over …
Anderson / Stolt – Invention Of Knowledge Review
“See light… Soul light…” I wouldn’t exactly call myself a morning person, but this morning, due to a confluence of abnormal events, I found myself awake at dawn. Sitting on my back porch, watching the …
Sinistro – Semente Review
Semente is the second full-length from Portugal’s Sinistro, but the first full-length with vocalist Patrícia Andrade as an official member of the band. (Sinistro and Andrade collaborated on a 2013 release before she joined.) Stylistically, …
Killing Joke – Pylon Review
Sometimes we fall in love at first sight. Sometimes it takes a bit longer. We’ve all experienced both: that magic moment that means that everything changes in a second, that life will never be the …