Tag: Rock
Clutch – Psychic Warfare Review
A month or so ago I had a conversation with a friend wherein my rock-loving buddy lamented the fact that, generally speaking, the Foo Fighters are hailed as the “best we’ve got right now.” What …
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances Review
Back in 1998, I found myself in a hoity-toity bar in Park City, Utah on a night when a band called Whiskeytown was due to play a show in support of an album called Strangers …
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, …
Pentagram – Curious Volume Review
Pentagram’s 2011 album, Last Rites, had the air of a miracle about it. Singer Bobby Liebling, after decades of drug abuse, somehow cleaned himself up and managed to convince estranged guitarist Victor Griffin to rejoin the …
W.A.S.P. – Golgotha Review
Of all W.A.S.P.’s controversial antics throughout the years, Blackie Lawless’ fairly recent conversion to Christianity is probably the most shocking. This is the man who brought us classics like “Don’t Cry (Just Suck),” “Kill Fuck …
Horisont – Odyssey Review
For whatever reason – and I’m going with “an oversaturation of mediocrity” – I don’t have much space left in my world for the whole retro-proto thing, even the best of it. So I didn’t …
Motorhead – Bad Magic Review
Impermanence is the nature of things. Iron corrodes; fire burns out; stone erodes; everything proceeds at its own pace towards nothingness. Bodies break and people die, but legends live on as long as there are …
Black Space Riders – Refugeeum Review
Black Space Riders play what most folks call space rock and the band itself refers to as the New Wave of Heavy Psychedelic Space Rock. Setting aside any quibbles about the existence of various Waves …