Tag: Translation Loss
Grayceon – Then The Darkness Review
Going into this, I suppose I ought to acknowledge that I’m pretty much a Grayceon mark. The sounds that this trio makes, they get my brain a-sizzle. I have reviewed, with almost embarrassing frequency, Grayceon …
Coltsblood – Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk Review
[Artwork by Louis Daguerre] If Esoteric’s guitar leads are the sound of the stars, Coltsblood’s echo the Earth’s interior, at least a subterrain pulled straight from Jules Verne’s fantastical imagination. The quintessential Coltsbloodian lead is …
Re-Buried – Repulsive Nature Review
Re-Buried. As in: to bury again something that was previously already buried. It’s right there in the name, the “re-” prefix, and so, if you read as much into it as I am clearly going …
Choke – Desiphon Review
Two of the things I love most in this life are grindcore and the Green Bay Packers. So when the new EP from this Green Bay-based death/grind outfit landed in the ol’ inbox, it came …
Grayceon – Mothers Weavers Vultures Review
Because they belong to San Francisco’s diverse and recombinant music scene, Grayceon is hardly alone in making genre-agnostic but undeniably progressive heavy metal. They are, however, almost singularly adept at summoning big, unguarded emotions with …
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence Review
[Cover art by Ars Moriendee] Like all metalheads worth their weight in god’s tears, the Last Rites crew is a big fan of Doug Moore. Is it because he used to contribute his eloquent sentences …
Wake – Confluence EP Review
Some bands just truly love their fans and want to give them endless opportunities to grow record collections. Wake is certainly no Nunslaughter, but they have been busy in 2020 replenishing the musical coffers of …
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Since the inception of heavy metal as a genre, roughly 666 subgenres, sub-subgenres, and subs to genres — who mostly spend their time being flogged by bullet belts and wrist spikes while listening to their …