What the hell makes Ghost so appealing? The band has gathered quite an eclectic fan base in a very short span of time, so what’s the deal? The songwriting isn’t complex, the music is easy to digest and covers a lot of familiar territory, and the Satanist theme is anything but a new concept in… Continue reading Surfing Hellfire Waves: A Review of Ghost’s Infestissumam
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Bair Grills… Rise and Fall by Continuum
In my opinion, a band is great when they can not only showcase their musicians’ skills, but do so in the confines of composing enjoyable songs. A lot of people can shred but what they write might be bland wankery. And a lot of people write great hooks but don’t blister faces with solos. With… Continue reading Bair Grills… Rise and Fall by Continuum
Review: Monks of Mellonwah’s Sky and the Dark Night
I’ve had the pleasant opportunity to review the new EP entitled Sky and the Dark Night from upcoming Australian progressive indie rock band Monks of Mellonwah. The EP is a single composition split up into three sections, which blend into each other so naturally that I’m almost puzzled as to why they would choose to… Continue reading Review: Monks of Mellonwah’s Sky and the Dark Night
Review: Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life
If you’re trying to get a girl to sleep with you for the first time, Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life is not the album to put on. But if you’ve got an Al Qaeda operative tied up in your basement and you need to find out where the bomb is RIGHT NOW – or if the… Continue reading Review: Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life
Kayotik’s Born Through Brutality
Brutality is a concept oft-discussed in death metal circles. A band releases a new slab of tunes and writers and fans alike immediately hold it up to some hypothetical scale to see if it measures up. Local death/grind merchants Kayotik not only embrace this challenge but laid down the gauntlet in the very name of… Continue reading Kayotik’s Born Through Brutality
Sound, Blood, and Lineup: A Review of Howl’s Bloodlines
Bloodlines, Howl’s second full-length album, is due to be released by Relapse Records April 30th. Fans of the Rhode Island doom metal band will find this work to be just as powerful as Full of Hell, but with some marked differences. The first distinction is that Bloodlines is a lot less sludgy. If Full of… Continue reading Sound, Blood, and Lineup: A Review of Howl’s Bloodlines
Celebration Day: What Happened, Guys?
By Cie Grant Cahn Last November, a mere five years after the fact, Led Zeppelin released a live CD (and DVD) of their London O2 Arena show from December of 2007. Robert Plant had made it known prior to this performance that he was tied up with his present day musical projects and had no… Continue reading Celebration Day: What Happened, Guys?