Tag: review
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King Diamond on tour with Jess and the Ancient Ones
Throwback Thursday may have been yesterday, but I’m going to wax nostalgic today. Many, many years ago, when I was just a wee lass who had limited access to Toronto and the last bus home left the big city at 11:30pm, I missed my first chance to see and hear King Diamond in the flesh.…
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Life After Death From Above 1979
Up until pretty recently, the question “What the hell happened to Death From Above 1979” was a perfectly valid one. At one point, the band was huge; between 2001 and 2006, they played over five hundred shows around the world. Critics lined up to sing the band’s praises, appearances on shows like Late Night with Conan…
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Barghest – The Virtuous Purge
For their second full-length, The Virtuous Purge, Louisiana deathened black metal titans Barghest have ratcheted up the production quality several notches. They still sound raw and born from the places hidden from the sun’s piercing glare, but now all the hellish screams, ice cold, bowel-shaking guitars and manic percussion can be heard with a new…
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The Zero Theorem
There’s a parallel between fans of metal and fans of Terry Gilliam’s work. There’s the sense of imagination and adventure, and loyalty, and the sense of belonging to something exclusive, and the sense of anticipation whenever one of our heroes creates something new. Thus is it with metal and thus is it also with Terry…
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Hellbound’s Progressive Nation at Sea Awards 2014
In February 2014, Adam Wills and Laura Wiebe flew to Miami, embarked on a cruise ship, and indulged in four days’ worth of live progressive rock and metal. In lieu of a Progressive Nation at Sea 2014 review, they instead have chosen to recognize the highest achievements of the festivals participants with the Hellbound PNAS 2014 Awards.…
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Pale Divine – Cemetery Earth (reissue)
By Gruesome Greg Don’t sleep on Pale Divine. They might not be one of the first bands that comes to mind when you think American doom — I’m guilty of this as well. But whenever I’ve seen ’em play at a couple doomfests down south, they pretty much steal the show. Did I mention there’s…
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Amon Amarth/Enslaved/Skeletonwitch @ Granada Theater, Lawrence KS, February 9, 2014
Review by William Seay Photos by Jackson May (Amon Amarth main, Enslaved) and Jake Dodge (Amon Amarth) So I’ve decided that Amon Amarth are, in their own way, the Manowar of death metal. They’ve stuck to their formula pretty much since 1998 and it has been paying off now for easily 10 years or more. Since…
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Thou – Heathen
By Matt Hinch “Only amidst the sea of refuse shall we find enlightenment pure.” — from “Immorality Dictates” The ever-prolific Thou continue what has thus far been a stellar 2014 with Heathen. Their fourth full length and first since 2010’s Summit is simply stunning. The Louisiana doomsayers are sure to grab the rapt attention of…
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Space Mushroom Fuzz – Burning the Almanac
By Gruesome Greg Quickie, 20-minute EP from this Boston-based heavy psych outfit—now a proper power trio, apparently. The space-rock theme remains readily apparent in the four song titles, as “The Cosmic Evolution” kicks things off with some heavy fuzz-rock riffage and equally-distorted vocals. “The Bio Zones” keeps the cosmic grooves going, a nice slow burner…
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Hawkwind – Spacehawks
By Gruesome Greg Now, I’ll admit to being a bit ambivalent about this album before even hearing a note of it. While the official word when this landed in my inbox was that the band was “rescheduling” its North America dates, by the time I got around to listening to Spacehawks, they’d already cancelled their…