Album Review: CARA NEIR/RAMLORD Split
This split between CARA NEIR and RAMLORD is 23 minutes of grinding, putrid fury.
Shayne Mathis
Album Review: UNSACRED Three Sisters
For a band that have only been together 8 months, Virginia’s UNSACRED certainly have their act together. They play a melange of old-school hardcore, crust punk, black metal, and a […]
Album Review: HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE 17th Street
San Francisco prog metallers Hammers of Misfortune have returned with their fifth album – 17th Street. Although the band has a new vocalist and guitar player, The Worship of Silence’s John […]
Album Review: CULTFINDER Black Thrashing Terror
Cultfinder’s debut EP Black Thrashing Terror is pretty much what you’d expect based on it’s title – eleven minutes of crusty blackened thrash. If you’re a fan of Kvelertak or newer […]
Album Review: THE GATES OF SLUMBER The Wretch
On The Wretch, Indianapolis doom merchants The Gates of Slumber continue to churn out Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus inspired doom metal sure to please fans of the genre.
Album Review: EYE OF SOLITUDE Sui Caedere
Generally, doom metal’s not my thing, but I’m a sucker for genre cross-pollination and England’s Eye of Solitude have that in spades. Yes, they work within the framework of typical doom […]
Album Review: BLUT AUS NORD 777 Cosmosophy
Blut Aus Nord have always pushed the boundary of what black metal is, but 777-Cosmosophy strays so far from the genre’s rotting carcass that it can scarcely be considered black metal […]
Album Review: DRAGONY Legends
Dragony are a solidly middle-of-the-road symphonic power metal band. They attack all the typical genre tropes such as fantasy lyrics, soaring melodies, and guitar acrobatics enthusiastically, yet strictly by-the-book. Legends is […]
Album Review: HOLY KNIGHTS Between Daylight and Pain
I am, unashamedly, a power metal fan. I know it’s not the “coolest” sub-genre of metal, but I don’t care. At it’s best, power metal is heroic, positive and […]
Album Review: ULCER Grant Us Death
Check out my review of Grant Us Death – the new album from Polish death metalers, ULCER. Pretty good stuff…unless you’re in to music that’s not any good.