Red Harvest’s sixth release, “Sick Transit Gloria Mundi,” is a punishing piece of work that would just as soon pummel the listener as rock their socks off- it does a little of both. Crushingly heavy, […]
The best Primordial album since “A Journey’s End,” “To the Nameless Dead” celebrates all the band’s best traits with considerable class and intelligence. Class and intelligence are hard to come by these days, especially with […]
“Khaooohs And Kon-Fus-Ion,” Pan-Thy-Monium’s awkwardly titled and far-too-short finale, is like an inexplicably fun sledgehammer to the head: brutal death metal in the nineties Relapse mode with hectic song structures, wild baritone sax squawking, NYC […]
“Sidereal Journey” is the third, final, and best album from Oxiplegatz, Alf Svensson’s short lived post At the Gates solo project. It’s a strange little album, with outsized ambition, comprised of one epic song divided […]
I remember a time when “happy metal” was the favorite go-to dismissal of fanzine writers wary of death metal’s forays into more positive-sounding terrain. The Goteborg bands, particularly In Flames, were favorite targets. Somehow Israel’s […]
Mr. Bungle’s “Disco Volante” is a sophisticated collage of popular music genres. The primary difference between “Disco Volante” and its self-titled predecessor is the overall tone. If the debut was a facetious celebration of depravity, […]
Right now, the music-listening public is infatuated with prefixed genres like “post rock” and “post metal,” further complicating the once easy task of usefully labeling music. Jesu, along with the current crop of heavy Anglo-American […]
Who would have thought that one day a founding member of Napalm Death would create something so pleasant? Despite its tough metal title, “Conqueror” is actually comparatively subdued next to the bone-crushing weight of the […]
After the ornate symphonic rock of “Omnio,” In the Woods… stripped down their sound and production for “Strange in Stereo,” opting for a somewhat colder, edgier approach. The songs are shorter, more straightforward, and less […]
Human Services are a strange beast of a band, drawing all kinds of nebulous weirdness into their heavy orbit. While the oft-brutal churning of their guitars and cranky bass suggest kinship with sludge and drone […]
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