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Venom Prison - “Samsara” [Album Review]
If you’ve professed a love for heavy music while simultaneously worrying that it’s become a bit safe in recent years, Venom Prison’s latest, Samsara (Prosthetic Records),… → Read More
Amon Amarth - “The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm” [DVD Review]
Nowadays, to reach a 25-year milestone is a long time in the music industry. Though this used to be commonplace for bands, alterations within the music business have meant that artists band together for shorter periods of time, and that success — if it comes — can appear and swiftly disappear. Nowhere is this truer than in metal, where standing out from your peers can be extremely difficult, and… → Read More
Hundredth - “Ultrarare” [EP] [Album Review]
Though it’s unlikely anyone who has come this far with Hundredth will be taken aback by Ultrarare’s tangential direction, it’s still magnificent to see a band… → Read More
Weed Demon - “Astrological Passages” (Reissue) [Album Review]
What’s in a name? Plenty, as it happens. It’s unlikely that the players in Bongzilla or Weedeater thought that their names would conjure images of K-Pop or outlaw country, and so it is with Weed Demon. Coming a good three years after their Stoned To Death EP, Astrological Passages is a 50-minute journey into bongs and bigness for the herbally-minded - but is it any good? Yes and no. The myriad… → Read More
Neurosis - “Pain of Mind (Reissue)” [Album Review]
Before they became the sky-rending sludge monument to ancient force they are today, Oakland’s Neurosis were big fans of crusty velocity. Fans that came upon their body of work through later records Times Of Grace or Given To The Rising might find the urgency of Pain Of Mind confusing, but as this group is so iconic, their first full-length is worthy of a re-issue regardless. First things first,… → Read More
Extremity - “Coffin Birth” [Album Review]
Coffin Birth by Extremity is a genuinely confident, powerful, thought-out example of death worship, and one that’s unquestionably worthy of your time. → Read More
Doomed - “6 Anti-Odes To Life” [Album Review]
There’s a greater darkness at work on Doomed’s 6 Anti-Odes To Life, as funeral doom adds another superb band to its roster. → Read More
Christ on Parade - “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing” (Reissue) [Album Review]
In all honesty, if you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like if Rites Of Spring played breakneck thrash covers of primitive skate punk while sampling… → Read More
Extremity - “Coffin Birth” [Album Review]
Coffin Birth by Extremity is a genuinely confident, powerful, thought-out example of death worship, and one that’s unquestionably worthy of your time. → Read More
Doomed - “6 Anti-Odes To Life” [Album Review]
There’s a greater darkness at work on Doomed’s 6 Anti-Odes To Life, as funeral doom adds another superb band to its roster. → Read More
Christ on Parade - “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing” (Reissue) [Album Review]
In all honesty, if you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like if Rites Of Spring played breakneck thrash covers of primitive skate punk while sampling… → Read More
Weed Demon - “Astrological Passages” (Reissue) [Album Review]
What’s in a name? Plenty, as it happens. It’s unlikely that the players in Bongzilla or Weedeater thought that their names would conjure images of K-Pop or outlaw country, and so it is with Weed Demon. Coming a good three years after their Stoned To Death EP, Astrological Passages is a 50-minute journey into bongs and bigness for the herbally-minded - but is it any good? Yes and no. The myriad… → Read More
Hundredth - “Ultrarare” [EP] [Album Review]
Though it’s unlikely anyone who has come this far with Hundredth will be taken aback by Ultrarare’s tangential direction, it’s still magnificent to see a band… → Read More
Neurosis - “Pain of Mind (Reissue)” [Album Review]
Before they became the sky-rending sludge monument to ancient force they are today, Oakland’s Neurosis were big fans of crusty velocity. Fans that came upon their body of work through later records Times Of Grace or Given To The Rising might find the urgency of Pain Of Mind confusing, but as this group is so iconic, their first full-length is worthy of a re-issue regardless. First things first,… → Read More