Tag: Southern Lord
Burning Love – Rotten Thing To Say Review
Canada’s Burning Love is perhaps most notable for featuring the vocal and lyrical mischief of former Cursed frontman Chris Colohan. With second album Rotten Thing to Say, however, Burning Love ought to also become notable …
High On Fire – The Art Of Self Defense (Reissue) Review
If you’re thinking that you’ve seen this before, meaning a reissue of High On Fire’s debut The Art Of Self Defense, you’d be right. In 2001, Tee Pee Records reissued the album with a couple …
From Ashes Rise – Rejoice The End / Rage Of Sanity Review
As part of an ongoing obsessive effort to completely corner the market on any and all things related to crusty punk, Southern Lord offers up this 7” EP from the re-risen From Ashes Rise. Originally formed …
Martyrdöd – Paranoia Review
On its face, the sort of bruising metallic crust / d-beat so lovingly cultivated and / or rampantly spewed into the world by Southern Lord of late would seem to permit very little room for …
Wolfbrigade – Damned Review
Southern Lord has been cornering the market on all things crusty and d-beat-y of late, so it was little surprise when they announced that they’d signed long-running Swedish act Wolfbrigade. Starting out in the mid …
Pelican – Ataraxia/Taraxis Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Pelican has been producing their somewhat bland brand of instrumental post-metal/rock for a decade, and while it’s nothing I would deem as being particularly innovative, their music has a sludgy …
Acephalix – Deathless Master Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Acephalix began life as a more of a metallic crust band than a crusty metallic band, and their debut album Aporia was a good example of the potential this kind …
Black Breath – Sentenced To Life Review
Seattle’s death/thrash/hardcore act Black Breath is back with full-length number two, Sentenced to Life. The band’s first album, Heavy Breathing, saw the band integrate a heavy Swedish death metal influence into the crossover/thrash sound it …