Third Island – Dusk
Irish post-metal? Sign me up. The debut EP from Third Island takes listeners on a journey through the night of an insomniatic protagonist. Dusk is…
Reviews
Serpent Crown – Incantations of Vengeance
Oakland certainly has no shortage of blackened, thrashy sludge bands, from the likes of High on Fire and Black Cobra going back to some…
Old Corpse Road – Of Campfires and Evening Mists
In the metal genre we all love, a band’s artwork speaks volumes as to their intentions. The splendidly named Old Corpse Road’s evocatively titled…
The Wounded Kings – Visions of Bone
Album number five from British doomsters The Wounded Kings is slated to be their last—the band announced they’d be breaking up a couple weeks…
David Bowie – Let’s Dance LP
To begin with, I have to confess that I disliked Let’s Dance from the time I first heard it until early 2016 – right…
David Bowie – David Live 2LP
It’s incredible how good, interesting, revealing and even informative an album can be, while simultaneously being critically abhorred. How such things happen is anyone’s…
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs LP
While it might not sound like the greatest endorsement of an album’s quality or of the creative foresight possessed by an artist on the…
Asphyx – Incoming Death
If you don’t think Martin van Drunen has one of the best voices in death metal then you either haven’t heard him or you…
Truckfighters – V
Album number five from these Swedish stoner-rock stalwarts comes out late September, with domestic distribution by Century Media. I actually didn’t own any of…
The Great Sabatini/Godstopper split
Two of Eastern Canada’s preeminent noise-rock outfits collide as Montreal’s The Great Sabatini shares duties with Toronto’s Godstopper on this six-song, 17-and-a-half-minute split EP….