Tag: Vendetta Records
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 1
Hard to believe that 2024 is halfway over, but hey, that’s the inexorable march of time for you, right? As always, we here at Last Rites World Headquarters And Royal Order Of The Moose Lodge …
Woe – Legacies of Frailty Review
[Cover art by Khaos Diktator Design] American muscle is a term generally reserved for talking about cars. Granted, we do spend a lot of time talking about American muscles when it comes to U.S. athletes …
Black, Raw, & Bleeding: Into The Castles, Catacombs, Caverns, & Crypts Of The Black Metal Underground
Here we are, once again emerging from the new moon: the darkest of eves in the lunar calendar, the one night of the month when the light of the sun no longer reflects upon the …
An Interview With Anicon: Brooklyn And Black Metal Tropes
Recorded during a furious winter, Anicon’s newest work, their sophomore LP Entropy Mantra, represents a shift in their sound. More riff-heavy than prior work and certainly more open to individual contribution, Entropy Mantra is yet another solid album from …
Wild Hunt – Afterdream Of The Reveller Review
Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma posed a fairly simple question: Because of various environmental and evolutionary reasons, humans have developed the capacity to eat more or less everything. That being so, what should …
Belus – Apophenia Review
The Brooklyn black metal scene has a penchant for off-kilter, nearly jazzy black metal. Almost as if there’s a competition between the drummers in the scene to thrust each other into new, unchartered territory using …
Woe – Hope Attrition Review
When Woe’s debut A Spell for the Death of Man hit in 2008, it was a significant shot of adrenaline to an American black metal scene that was, at the time, more often known for …
Syven – Aikaintaite Review
When a musical work evokes the weight of natural processes in geologic time, it inevitably exposes impotence in the words used to describe it. Allowing for the difficulty of the written word to reach back …