The Acacia Strain: Slow Decay
Slow Decay, the new album by The Acacia Strain, started as a slow release. Momentum was being rolled in from their earlier 2020 album…
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Valkyrie: Fear
Classic rock has established an ironclad foundation that has influenced every band and artist under the sun since the early 60s. There is not…
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Inter Arma: Garbers Days Revisited
A windowless van, black as night, rolls idly to a stop in front of a concrete titan. A building with mostly boarded windows and…
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Maggot Heart: Mercy Machine
At first glance, the album cover of Maggot Heart’s whirlwind of a demented acid rock coup Mercy Machine looks like if Slayer fell into…
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Boris: No
Watching Velvet Buzzsaw last night was more harmful than helpful. Not because of the contemporary depictions of shallow youth, alienation, and empty hedonism worthy…
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Falconer: From a Dying Ember
Happy early July, everyone. A month of celebration, masked revolution, and unpredictability. It also marks a week past from the June 26th release of…
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Lamb of God: Lamb of God
It is truly an era of change. Many metal bands have to slow down in the passage of time, yet Lamb of God in…
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The Ghost Inside: The Ghost Inside
Six years is a passage of time that makes or breaks most bands. It is a tumultuous era of touring, realizing sense of purpose,…
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Behemoth: A Forest
I will likely be executed by blood eagle for my review of Behemoth’s new EP A Forest. I understand saying “the font alone looks…
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Paradise Lost: Obsidian
A concept album without the label. A black mass of phantasmagoria. A dreaded message of doom. This triptych of description is what the latest…
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