Tag: Willowtip
Barren Path – Grieving Review
The concept of a grindcore guitar god is a little bit silly to me, considering the rawness and punk ethos involved in the style overall… but then again, this is a sub-genre built on the …
An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City Review
[Cover art by Alex Eckman-Lawn] If you look at other pages and conversations about An Abstract Illusion, you’ll likely find that they are most often saddled with the progressive death metal genre tag. Surely, I’m …
Krigsgrav – Stormcaller Review
In 2023, Texas metal quartet Krigsgrav released an album that resonated with me more than any that year, clinching the top spot on my AOTY list. A beautifully sinister cacophony of melodic black and doom …
Unmerciful – Devouring Darkness Review
[Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jarramillo] Drummer Trynt Kelly’s feet are flying. That’s one point of interest on Devouring Darkness, Unmerciful’s fourth full-length, and that point is like an industrial sewing machine needle turbo-embroidering your ear …
Relics Of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain Review
[Cover art by Sergey Liakh aka Siarhei] If you prowled around these parts last year, you may have noticed our collective fell deeper into the corpse-clogged abyss of brutal death metal a bit more heavily. …
The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum Review
I wouldn’t say I like the thought of repeating cliches or reiterating cringy anecdotes, but I must state that the notion that music is therapeutic will forever ring true. Now, in my 30s, it still …
Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology Of Nought Review
[Cover art by Dmitriy Egorov] Ontology of Nought is a deeply overwhelming album. You probably already knew that, though, looking at that title, the fact that one song has 17 words in its name, or if …
Pyrrhon – Exhaust Review
[Cover art by Caroline Harrison] Unpredictability is a rather tricksy little hobbit of a thing in life. It’s awful when it comes to being in a bathroom, giving birth, or car maintenance. When it comes …